Team Assistant Health & Safety

Your new role
To be responsible for the provision of project co-ordinating and support to the Health and Safety Team ensuring they provide an effective service to assist Abri in achieving its vision.

Key Duties

• Develop, design and manage an electronic system to control Health, safety and wellbeing actions across the group to ensure compliance with legislative requirement and current best practice and to provide ongoing review and maintenance of this system.
• Collect, collate and present Health and Safety related data in a format that can be easily analysed.
• To assist the Health and Safety Manager in the vetting and monitoring of contractors' documentation as part of the 'Approved Contractors' process, to ensure legally compliant
• To deliver the effective administration of Health and Safety Committees programme and meetings, to include setting meeting dates, sending out invites, collating agenda items, attending to minute meeting, writing up and circulating minutes for agreement and uploading agreed minutes onto staff intranet.
• To manage the consultation process regarding Health and Safety related issues relating to changes and/or implementation of Health and Safety related good practices, to include items such as co-ordinating policy and procedure updates.
• To investigate and source information and/or suppliers to provide options to enable Health and Safety managers to make appropriate business decisions.
• To assist Abri managers with the Display Screen Equipment assessment process where necessary carrying out Display Screen Equipment risk assessments and if necessary ordering the appropriate equipment or referring onto Health and Safety manager for further assessment.
• To signpost internal and external enquirers to the relevant Health and Safety information to enable them to manage Health and Safety effectively.
• To contribute to and work with the Health and Safety team to help ensure that it achieves its goals as set out in the Corporate and Directorate Action Plans
• To act as a representative for the Health and Safety team on group workshops and forums as appropriate.
• Attend operational management team, directorate or cross directorate meetings as required.
• Provide Health and Safety information for tender submissions as required, to include collating information either stored on the internal Intranet or from relevant Abri teams to enable the Health and Safety section of a tender document to be correctly completed in a timely fashion.

What you'll need to succeed
Excellent IT skills with practical knowledge and experience of Microsoft applications, particularly Excel.
Excellent numeracy skills.
Ability to structure and present data accurately and in an easily understandable format.
Ability to work with raw data and presentation. Good analytical and questioning skills.
Be able to provide verbal and written communications appropriate to the receiver.
Appreciation of skills required when working in a large corporate, multi-site organisation.
Maths qualification equivalent to Level 3, A Level or equivalent.
Educated to a minimum of Level 3, A Levels or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Experience of co-ordinating projects or similar.
To be able to work independently without close supervision and balance conflicting demands.
To be able to work with multi-disciplinary team, as team works with all sectors of complex organisation.
Experience of producing management and statistical reports, analysis and summaries.
Full driving licence with appropriate business insurance and/or ability to travel in a timely and efficient manner to visit customers and attend meetings in areas not covered by public transport (delete if this isn't required).
Demonstrates our Values and Behaviours.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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