Head of Health Safety and Wellbeing

• Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing
• Duration: 6-months
• Rate: £650 - £750 p/d (inside IR35)
• Location: Remote + ad-hoc attendance to Quinton office

Reporting to the Assurance Delivery Director, the Head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing will play a key leadership role in the engineering division. This is a high-profile role, working with business directors, operational leaders and the wider civil engineering industry to shape strategy, drive cultural change, and ensure the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategy, ensuring it supports business priorities and drives measurable improvements in safety, health and welfare outcomes
• Own and continually evolve the division’s Health & Safety Management System, ensuring it is robust, practical and aligned with legislation, ISO45001, client requirements and the changing needs of the business.
• Drive a proactive safety culture of visible safety leadership, governance and continual improvement, embedding heath, safety and wellbeing into everyday operations.
• Lead and inspire a team of Health & Safety professionals, to ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality assurance, support and advice.
• Build strong relationships with customers, stakeholders and industry forums to influence standards and best practice.
• Provide expert leadership on H&S significant risk management, overseeing effective incident response and investigation, ensuring lessons are learned, corrective actions are implemented and senior stakeholders have clear visibility of performance, risks and key H&S KPIs.
• Champion a positive safety and wellbeing culture, embedding proactive approaches to physical, mental and occupational wellbeing and promoting psychological safety across the organisation.

Qualifications/Experience

• Experience of working in engineering e.g. construction, civil engineering or related industry sectors
• Relevant bachelor’s degree or demonstrable experience
• NEBOSH Diploma or similar level of formal H&S qualifications
• CMIOSH
• Significant experience at senior level for the delivery of H&S services to a national multi-site organisation
• Effective communicator with senior stakeholders
• Experienced H&S practitioner with proven skills in the implementation of business wide improvement and culture change programmes as well as the interpretation and implementation of legal and client requirements 
• Skilled analyst with experience in implementing performance reporting to support Continual Improvement
• Skilled Investigator with experience in delivering formal management investigations under legal privilege
• Experienced manager of H&S specialists or H&S service function

For more information, please contact Scarlet Wilson