Overview
Health & Safety Advisor – Wakefield, WF2 0XG, United Kingdom
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000
Are you a Health & Safety professional who enjoys working independently, building strong relationships and influencing positive safety cultures across a multi-site retail environment? If you’re looking for a field-based role where you can make a genuine impact, helping colleagues create safe places to work and shop, this could be the opportunity for you.
We’re looking for a Health & Safety Risk Advisor to support our Southern region. Working closely with Store Managers and Regional Managers, you’ll be the go-to expert for practical health and safety advice, helping to manage risk, improve compliance and support our continued commitment to colleague and customer safety. This is a field-based role with regular travel across the South and includes a company car.
What you’ll be doing:
Working across a large portfolio of retail stores, you’ll provide practical guidance and support on a wide range of health and safety matters, helping colleagues understand their responsibilities and create safe, compliant environments. Building strong relationships with operational teams will be central to your success, enabling you to provide coaching, challenge where appropriate and influence positive behaviours. A key part of the role will involve identifying risks during store visits, supporting risk assessments and providing on-the-ground coaching to store and regional management teams. You’ll also deliver induction training, support new store openings and ensure colleagues have the knowledge and tools they need to maintain high standards of compliance. Investigating accidents, incidents and claims will form an important part of the role, ensuring root causes are identified and lessons are shared across the region. You’ll monitor data, identify trends and provide targeted support where required, helping to reduce risk and drive continuous improvement. Alongside your day-to-day advisory responsibilities, you’ll support the ongoing development of policies, procedures and best practice initiatives while helping to ensure risk assessment, incident and claims management processes are followed consistently across the business.
What we’re looking for:
- NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health.
- Previous experience in a Health & Safety role within a retail or multi-site environment.
- The ability to work independently, manage your own diary and prioritise a varied workload effectively.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data and insight to identify trends, risks and opportunities for improvement.
- An approachable and credible communicator who can build strong relationships and explain complex issues in a practical and engaging way.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
