27 days annual leave
Flexible working
Health cash plan

Trainee Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor

Salary £28,592 per annum
Location Walsall, West Midlands – Hybrid working
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Contract:  2-year Apprenticeship, full-time, 37 hours per week

Closing Date: 26 May 2022

Do you have some work experience and a qualification in Health and Safety or Environmental Science and are looking for a rewarding career with a great employer?

We are looking for a Trainee Health, Safety & Environmental Advisor to join our HS&E team and will play a key role in making a difference to our organisational safety, environmental performance and embedding a culture that cares.

After successfully completing a qualification with us, we expect you to move into a Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor role after 2 years.

 

Main job responsibilities:

  • Monitor and undertake audits/inspections to ensure compliance with whg policies and regulatory requirements.
  • Triage individual interactions within our HS&E management systems; e.g. incidents and near miss reports.
  • Progress chase any outstanding actions to satisfactory conclusion.
  • Support the development of automated cloud-based record keeping and document control systems.
  • Accompany the HS&E Team colleagues on site visits, welfare checks, monitoring and auditing activities.
  • Develop and deliver innovative means of interacting with our colleagues that promote positive safety culture, wellbeing and protecting the environment.
  • Monitor and report on compliance training across the organisation, following up where required.

 

We're looking for someone who has:

  • Knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation
  • Level 3 qualification in Safety, Health and Environment Technician or equivalent
  • Experience of using a variety of IT packages i.e. Microsoft Word, Emails, Databases
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to record and produce accurate information with attention to detail
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines and conflicting priorities
  • Ability to deal with challenging situations/colleagues
  • Ability to work on own initiative and with the team
  • The willingness to work towards an appropriate HS&E qualification
  • A commitment to developing knowledge, skills and abilities in health safety and environmental practices.

What’s in it for you?

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave, plus Christmas shut down, a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.  

We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them. 

 

About us

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to make a difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

For more information, read the full job description and visit www.whg.uk.com

 

We are one of the Midlands’ leading and most successful providers of good quality
homes.

Our values help us to maintain a culture that helps us achieve our commitment of
supporting customers to lead happy and fulfilled lives. We want all of our people to
uphold our ambition; demonstrating the belief, enthusiasm and energy to deliver on
it. We want our colleagues to feel empowered to take the lead and to think creatively
and be passionate about their work.

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. Through the People Strategy we take every opportunity to embed our values to ensure that our colleagues give the best possible service to our customers, communities and each other.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, being dedicated to doing the right thing, and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable being themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

27 days annual leave

Flexible working

Health cash plan

Christmas
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Investment in learning and development

Generous LGPS pension

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