Health & Safety Business Partner

We are recruiting a Health & Safety Business Partner to work in our Corporate Health & Safety team, working with the council's waste services and workshop teams, Cityclean in Hollingdean. The role offers an exciting opportunity to work with managers, employees and all other stakeholders to ensure the quality and consistency of health and safety performance both within their area of responsibility and across the council generally., We offer the opportunity for the suitable candidate to choose to work in a hybrid way. Your specific working arrangements will be subject to team and service working arrangements already in place alongside Government guidance. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

Are you an effective communicator, able to work effectively and sensitively with a wide range of people? Do you have great attention to detail? Have you got experience of working in the waste sector or with a manual labour team? The varied nature of our work means it can be challenging as well as rewarding., This exciting role needs someone with exceptional self-motivation and organisation skills, who is comfortable working in an often complex environment, is an influential communicator and has a proven track-record of delivering excellent Health & Safety management. You will have an appropriate level of Health and Safety qualifications, ideally Nebosh Diploma or equivalent and experience of working in a Health and Safety role in a large organisation. Good project management skills will be an advantage.

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).