Health & Safety Advisor

Are you passionate about making workplaces safer and helping people feel protected? Were on the hunt for a newHealth and Safety Advisorwhos ready to step in and support our Place and Field Operations teams stay safe while they do amazing work.

If youre someone who can foster a positive health and safety culture and enjoys getting stuck in, solving problems, and making a real difference, then this could be the role for you!

About Yorkshire Housing

You can probably already tell that were not your typical housing provider! With around 20,000 homes (and more in the pipeline), were on track with our growth plan to build 8,000 new homes across Yorkshire.

Youll be joining a team thats all about making a positive impact, not just for our colleagues but for the communities we serve. Were committed to building safer environments where everyone feels protected, valued, and heard. Plus, youll have the opportunity to shape the future of health and safety at Yorkshire Housing and help create a lasting culture of safety excellence.

What will I be doing?

Reporting to the Health & Safety Manager, you'll be supporting our customer-facing colleagues and sheltered schemes, helping to build and maintain a safe working environment. From risk assessments, developing lone work and personal safety arrangements, emergency arrangements to accident prevention, youll play a key role in ensuring the wellbeing of our teams, contractors, and customers. Weve broken down some key responsibilities here:

Supporting Safety Excellence:Help deliver best-in-class health and safety systems, from risk assessments to safe systems of work, emergency management, making sure theyre understood and followed across the Place teams and schemes.

Training and Coaching:Work with team leaders to deliver health and safety training, toolbox talks, and coaching programmes, ensuring everyone knows how to work safely and feel safe.

Inspections & Audits:Conduct regular health and safety inspections and audits, ensuring compliance and promoting accident and incident prevention.

Lone Worker & Personal Safety:Implement and monitor personal safety programs, including lone worker systems, violence and aggression training, and warning markers.

Accident & Incident Support:Help investigate accidents and safety concerns, providing practical solutions to prevent them from happening again.

• Experience in health and safety advisory roles, ideally in environments like social housing, residential property, or local authority.


• Knowledge of personal safety, fire safety, and wellbeing initiatives.


• Strong communication and people skills youll be training and working with colleagues at all levels.


• The ability to manage multiple tasks, solve problems, and meet deadlines.


• Experience using IT systems, databases, and Microsoft Office.


• A can-do attitude, attention to detail, and the ability to work on your own initiative.


It would also be great if you hold a Health and Safety Diploma or NVQ Level 6 with certiOSH (or NEBOSH General Certificate with evidence of working towards Diploma/NVQ. Take a look at the Role Profile which has lots more details!

This a full-time permanent role with a salary of£43,642.50 plus a £2,000 car allowance per annum, 25 days annual leave (rising annually to 30 days) plus Bank Holidays.

We offer a reward package to suit everyone. At YH, you can claim back for prescriptions, eye tests and more with our cash plan, make the most of a variety of retail discounts and take advantage of our pension scheme where well match your contributions up to 9%, just to name a few.

Our peoples health and wellbeing are one of our top priorities, and you can make the most of our readily available wellbeing support package. This includes access to a library of free fitness classes, as well as an instant My GP service and free counselling sessions with a trained professional.

Now youre really interested?

At YH, were actively building a working environment thats inclusive as well as diverse, where everyone can contribute their best work and be themselves. We believe difference is what makes us stronger and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting communities we serve, so we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds for this role.