Overview
Health & Safety Business Partner – New Shire Hall, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
We’re recruiting a proactive, customer‑focused Health & Safety Business Partner to lead the H&S partnership for Place & Sustainability. This portfolio includes complex, high‑risk operations such as highways projects, guided busways and CDM‑regulated work, where strong health and safety leadership is essential to protect our people, communities, and the Council’s reputation.
You will be the trusted H&S lead for P&S—building effective relationships with service leaders, project teams, and trade union colleagues—providing specialist advice, challenge, and assurance that our Safety Management System and statutory duties are robust and working in practice.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact
Stuart Wood Strategic Health & Safety Manager stuart.wood@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
About you
- Qualified: NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) and up‑to‑date knowledge of H&S legislation and industry standards relevant to infrastructure and construction.
- Experienced in CDM/high‑risk operations: Comfortable advising on highways, guided busways, and contractor activities with practical, proportionate solutions.
- Great relationship‑builder: Able to influence senior leaders, engineers, and delivery partners; confident working with trade unions and across multi‑disciplinary teams.
- Data‑informed & improvement‑minded: You use audits, dashboards and incident learning to drive continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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