Health and Safety Officer

Glf Schools, Banstead, SM7 1AG

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  28 July 2025

• Closing date

  12 August 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: GLF Associate Specialist - £33,000

Health and Safety Officer job summary

Are you passionate about creating safe, compliant, and supportive environments for students and staff? GLF Schools is looking for a proactive and detail-focused Trust Health and Safety Officer to join our Estates team. Based at either our Banstead or Earlsfield office with hybrid working and travel across our schools - you’ll play a key role in supporting and advising on health and safety matters across the Trust. Working closely with the Trust Health and Safety and Compliance Manager, you’ll help monitor compliance, support schools with risk assessments and emergency planning, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our safety culture. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact across a diverse and growing family of schools, we’d love to hear from you.

Your Opportunity 

Working as part of the Estates team and reporting to the Trust Health and Safety and Compliance Manager, you’ll be a key point of contact for health and safety matters - supporting schools with risk assessments, emergency planning, accident reporting, and compliance monitoring. This role involves regular school visits, data analysis, and collaboration with colleagues to ensure safe, well-managed environments for students and staff across the Trust.

What we are looking for

• Health and Safety / Risk Management Qualification (minimum NEBOSH certificate NGC or equivalent) 
• Experience of working in a Health and Safety or compliance related role
• Experience of working and supporting colleagues at all levels and providing advice
• Good working knowledge of current health and legal framework and requirements
• Good general IT skills, including experience of using compliance management or FM systems
• Methodical and thorough problem-solving approach
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including to distil complex information into clear and easily understood reports
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly to locations across the Trust

Please read the full job description and person specification before applying. 

Join Our Community

As a part of GLF Schools, you will join a community of staff dedicated to transforming education. With regular progression discussions, there will be a wealth of opportunities for you to grow your career, whether in one of our 43 academies or in our central team.

• A growing Multi Academy Trust with over 2,000 colleagues and over 17,000 pupils
• Founded upon the values of Respect, Inclusivity, Integrity and Kindness
• 43 primary and secondary schools across 7 Local Authority areas across the south of England
• We work as a community whilst ensuring each school maintains its own unique identity
• Committed to ensuring all children and young people receive the best possible education

Our Employment Offer

GLF Schools has a generous employment offer, which allows all our colleagues to Grow, Learn and Flourish

• Access to our highly competitive pension scheme (LGPS)
• Generous holiday allowance
• Work life and family friendly policies
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Access to a staff benefits portal
• Community and collaboration working model

The Details

Salary: GLF Associate Specialist - £33,000

Location: The Beacon School, Banstead OR Earlsfield Office / Hybrid / Visits to schools where required

Contract type: Permanent, 36hrs per week - full time. 

Start Date: ASAP

Closing date for applications: 12th August 2025 

Interview Date: TBC 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Glf Schools

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/glf-schools

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