Health and Safety Manager

Purpose of Role

The Health and Safety Manager reports directly to the Principal and will be part of the Senior Leadership Team.

They will be responsible for developing and implementing health and safety plans across our nursery and school locations, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.

The role promotes a positive health and safety culture within the organisation by providing clear advice on all health and safety matters to colleagues of varying degrees of knowledge.

Salary: £30,100 - £37,500

Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week Monday to Friday for 48 weeks of the year.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding of Ofsted and Independent Schools Inspectorate regulations.
• Oversee and manage all aspects of health and safety within The Gower School, from risk assessments and fire safety to emergency planning, ensuring that our sites remain safe and compliant.
• Carry out accident and incident investigations to discover causes and identify preventative measures using our online accident recording system.
• Ofsted and RIDDOR reporting.
• Devise and review policies and procedures which help reduce risk and support a positive health and safety culture and compliance.
• Devise and deliver health, safety and fire training, including new staff induction and document accordingly.
• Ability to keep abreast of current health and safety regulations, guidance, health and safety standards and research.
• Able to cope with a variety of tasks and prioritise work according to strict and competing deadlines.
• Provide detailed health and safety reports to the Principal/Owner.
• Monitor compliance regarding the administering and recording of medication.
• Ensure our kitchens remain compliant with regard to Food Standards Agency requirements and oversee all aspects of this.
• Oversee the compliance aspect of our holiday club provision.
• Conduct risk assessments for nursery events/trips and holiday club provision.
• Ability to deal with parent complaints.
• To be a Designated Safeguarding Lead.

What we’re looking for

• Ideally you will have worked in the education sector and have health and safety management knowledge and understanding.
• You must hold a NEBOSH qualification or be working towards one.
• An ability to collaborate and be a friendly team player will also be key.
• Adaptable, pragmatic and solutions focused.
• Highly organised and maintain spot-on attention to detail even when working to tight deadlines.
• Ability to analyse data and then convert and communicate it simply.
• You need the permanent right to work in the UK.

Employee benefits are a part of our reward strategy, therefore our staff members enjoy a range of perks such as:

• Competitive salaries
• Generous holiday allowance
• Annual salary reviews
• In house training and external training as part of career development
• Career progression opportunity
• Pension Scheme
• Free hot lunch prepared by our chef on the premises every day
• Season ticket travel loans
• Social Events

To learn more about us and what we actually do at The Gower School, feel free to visit our website https://www.thegowerschool.co.uk/ or take a look at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/The-Gower-School-72393689890/ If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with us. We are happy to answer them!

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be required to have a clear DBS check. External candidates will need to provide two references from previous employers.

Interested? Please apply.

If you have the qualification, worked at this level in health and safety before and have some of the above and a lot of ability to learn quickly, we would also like to hear from you.

To be consider for the role, please send your cv to jobs@thegowerschool.co.uk Please note, we will run interviews on a rolling basis as and when applications come in.

So don’t delay, apply now!