Busway Health and Safety Officer

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About the role

Overall purpose of the job The Health and Safety Busway Team provides expertise in all health and safety related matters and focuses on supporting the Council’s arrangements for complying with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and associated legislation, providing oversight and assurance that Health and Safety is being effectively managed across the busway and associated infrastructure. The Busway Health & Safety Officer will provide health and safety advice and guidance, supporting the Lead Busway Health and Safety Officer in data analysis activity and the production of management information reports. The role will support the team in various ways to ensure a professional and efficient service is delivered to CCC employees, external partners and busway users. This role will involve carrying out medium and low risk assessments and reviews, identifying recommendations for improvement. This role will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the health and safety of the guided busway and associated routes for our non motorised users to support the couty council’s Active Travel initiatives. Delivering clear focused customer service is essential in this role. Acting as a Busway Health and Safety Officer specific to the busway within the Highways and Transport Directorate. Participating in Health & Safety training, seminars and briefings.

For more information about this opportunity please contact

Daniel Brown Lead Busway Health and Safety Officer • Place and Sustainability

Daniel.Brown@cambridgeshire.gov.uk Mobile. 07484018720

What will you be doing?

Overall purpose of the job The Health and Safety Busway Team provides expertise in all health and safety related matters and focuses on supporting the Council’s arrangements for complying with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and associated legislation, providing oversight and assurance that Health and Safety is being effectively managed across the busway and associated infrastructure. The Busway Health & Safety Officer will provide health and safety advice and guidance, supporting the Lead Busway Health and Safety Officer in data analysis activity and the production of management information reports. The role will support the team in various ways to ensure a professional and efficient service is delivered to CCC employees, external partners and busway users. This role will involve carrying out medium and low risk assessments and reviews, identifying recommendations for improvement. This role will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the health and safety of the guided busway and associated routes for our non motorised users to support the couty council’s Active Travel initiatives. Delivering clear focused customer service is essential in this role. Acting as a Busway Health and Safety Officer specific to the busway within the Highways and Transport Directorate. Participating in Health & Safety training, seminars and briefings.

About you

Qualifications Required

• Recognised Professional Health & Safety qualification or HND/HNC or equivalent. Health and safety or Civil Engineering. Essential
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience. Relevant subject. Desirable
• Level 3 or above health & safety qualification, NEBOSH National Certificate in Health and Safety or equivalent. Desirable
• Membership of relevant health & safety professional body Technician Membership of IOSH (TechIOSH) or equivalent with evidence of on-going CPD. Desirable

Minimum levels of knowledge, skills and experience required

Health & Safety Legislation.

• Good knowledge of Health & Safety law and case law. Essential

Policies and Procedures.

• Knowledge of local government activities, policies and procedures. Desirable

Communication and influence.

• Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing. Able to design and deliver effective informal and formal presentations to individuals or groups that influence and achieve buy in. Essential

Working Relationships.

• Strong interpersonal, consultative skills, with the ability to form effective working relationships with a wide range of audiences. Has the personal qualities and skills that promote open and constructive working relationships with colleagues at all levels. Essential

Managing Risk

• Able to offer risk-based advice to support decision making and to support a healthy appetite for risk reduction across the Busway operations. Essential

Influencing and constructive challenge

• Evidenced and demonstrable influencing skills and ability to positively challenge across all levels of the organisation, particularly at a senior level. Essential

Results focussed

• Highly results focussed but able to understand and respond to the concerns raised by others in an empathetic, constructive way. Essential

Flexibility and agility

• Working in an agile, flexible way and capable of utilising technology to deliver business-focused solutions. Essential

Managing conflict / working under pressure

• Confident in managing conflicting priorities and pressures through effective decision making. Able to work effectively under pressure to find solutions. Essential

Experience of working in a Health & Safety role

• Experience of working in a relevant Health, Safety and Wellbeing role where a significant component of the role is the provision of advice and support to internal and/or external customers to secure compliance. Essential

Analysing data

• Ability to analyse and interpret management information to inform decision making and recommendations. Experience of risk management, using management information effectively to support arguments. Essential

Innovation/Creativity

• Proven track record of finding creative solutions to emerging issues. Essential

Policy Development

• Good experience of Health and Safety policy development. Essential

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• Ability to demonstrate awareness and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion and how this applies to this role. Essential

Net Zero

• Ability to contribute towards our commitment of becoming a net zero organisation. Essential

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers