Overview
Job Title: Head of Safety, Health & Environment
Salary: £62,583 per annum dependant on experience & skills
About the Role
What You Will Do
- Lead and manage the health & safety and fire safety function across all Group members, including a small team of H&S professionals.
- Develop, implement, and monitor health & safety policies, procedures, and initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Provide expert advice to senior leaders and managers on health & safety matters.
- Maintain and review incident management and business continuity plans in coordination with senior leaders, external agencies and stakeholders.
- Conduct risk assessments, audits, and inspections across campuses.
- Deliver training and awareness programs to staff and students.
- Promote a positive health, safety, and wellbeing culture throughout the Group.
About You
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Extensive experience in health & safety and fire safety management, ideally within a multi-site organisation.
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Strong knowledge of current health & safety legislation and best practices.
- Experience in incident management and knowledge of business continuity planning
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Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills.
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Ability to influence, advise, and engage with stakeholders at all levels.
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A degree in a relevant subject area & professional health & safety qualifications (e.g., NEBOSH, IOSH)
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Proven leadership skills, including experience managing a small team.
To find out more about the role or to have an informal chat please contact Tom Stevens (Group Director of Estates) on tom.stevens@luminate.ac.uk
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
