Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Coordinator
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
10 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 21.5 hours per week – 52 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale 5/6 - £18,555 - £21,168 per annum pro-rata (£31,069 - £35,444 per annum FTE)
Additional allowances
inclusive on London Weighting
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity to join OHC&AT as a Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability Coordinator, playing a key role in supporting the health and safety team to deliver efficient and compliant services across the organisation. You will assist in streamlining operations, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and promoting a culture of safety and sustainability. Your responsibilities will include managing health and safety systems, overseeing risk management, coordinating external audits and supporting the development and maintenance of training programs.
This is a hands-on position, and the successful candidate will need to develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including site Premises Officers, Principals, senior managers and external partners, to ensure smooth operations and effective safety management. You will be responsible for the accurate management of health and safety data, generating reports, tracking audit actions, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
Ideal for someone seeking to grow within the health and safety field, this role offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact, promoting a proactive safety culture, managing risk and ensuring high standards of health and safety and sustainability are maintained across OHC&AT.
The right person for this role will have:
- A solid understanding of health and safety legislation, risk assessment processes, and incident management techniques.
- Proven experience in supporting health and safety systems and compliance activities.
- Strong organisational and communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels.
- Proficiency in using health and safety software systems and Microsoft Excel.
- A NEBOSH qualification or willingness to pursue one, with experience in a similar role, preferably in an educational or similar setting.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.
For an informal discussion about the role, candidates are invited to contact Jo Bailey, Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability at jbailey@ohcat.org.
What the school offers its staff
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT) is a family of specialist education providers for over 1500 pupils and students from nursery to further education across 14 academies and 9 college centres in London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. Supporting our academies and college, OHC&AT also operate learning support, such as nursing and therapy, and a central business support team which includes HR, finance and IT.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
OHC&AT is a rewarding and inspirational place to work, where everyone works together to create the best possible outcomes for students. To find out more about us, and what makes us a special place to work please visit www.ohcat.org
Enhanced Benefits package
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.
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About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- jobs@orchardhill.ac.uk
- Phone number
- 02038722354
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
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