Health & Safety Officer

Job Title: Health & Safety Officer
Starting Salary: £39,481 opportunity to progress to £43,149 per annum
Hours: 37
Location: Stevenage/Hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Resources

About the team

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated health and safety officer to join

our team and provide competent health and safety support to managers and staff across Council

departments, schools and partner organisations.

We are looking for a high level of technical expertise and excellent interpersonal skills in order to

deliver our proactive assurance programme as well as managing a reactive workload involving

the provision of advice, responding to queries and dealing with incident reports.

About the role

The post holder will:

• Monitor compliance with health and safety legislation and HCC policy and procedures via our audit and inspection programme, ensuring effective monitoring and reporting.
• Provide health and safety advice and support to managers and staff within HCC, schools and partner organisations.
• A broad and secure knowledge of H&S legislation and practice is essential, together with the ability to build good relationships at all levels of theorganisation
• Assist in the development and delivery of health and safety training and support our Health and Safety Co-ordinators across the organisation.
• Contribute to the development and review of the Council’s Health and Safety guidance and procedures.
• Monitor accident and incident reports and statistics identifying trends and assist with investigations / debriefs as required

About you

Essential:

• You will have a successful track record of working in a similar role, working collaboratively in a

  small team and successfully providing health and safety advice and support to a range of clients.

• As the role requires competing priorities to be managed effectively,you will have excellent time

  management and organisation skills, enabling you to deliver a service focussed on effective risk

  management.

• As a key part of the role involves undertaking proactive and reactive visits, accident investigations, audits and inspections. Youso must be able to build good relationships and provide accurate advice both verbally and in written reports.
• You will have a NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Safety & Health or equivalent as a

  minimum.

• The ideal candidate will be qualified to NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Safety & Health or

  equivalent. With a commitment to continuing professional development e.g., through membership of IOSH or similar.

• Full UK Driving Licence
• Microsoft Office Applications, Word, Excel
  
  

If you are a confident and experienced Health and Safety professional with strong collaboration

and interpersonal skills interested in working across diverse areas of risk, then please get in

touch.

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is Level 10. Please locate the job profile here:

Job profiles - Corporate services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact james.ottery@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 14th & 15th October 2026

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

We are changing
Hertfordshire County Councilis undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Hertfordshire County on 1 April 2028, it is expected that most roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.

LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better. To find out more, visit https://www.hertfordshire-lgr.co.uk/

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.