Health, Safety and Fire Safety Manager

We have a great opportunity for a Health, Safety and Fire Safety Manager. In this key role you will act as a subject matter expert in health, safety and fire safety legislation and the application of legal requirements within HM Land Registry. Working collaboratively across the Facilities and Property Asset Management group, you will ensure health, safety and fire safety management is at the core of project management plans.
This role is a development opportunity and you will be fully supported in continuous professional development including working towards Chartered Status. You will have opportunities to work with cross government colleagues and health and safety leaders, gaining insight and experience in a wide variety of health and safety topics., In this role you will provide assurance and advice on Health, Safety and fire safety standards for the estate, delivering organisational and cultural objectives to ensure a positive culture and environment. Identifying and mitigating risks, you will respond to enquiries, and work collaboratively across stakeholders to ensure control measures and lessons learnt are addressed. Manage HM Land Registry’s health and safety and environment management systems in line with ISO 14001 and 45001 standards. Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to promote health and safety risk management., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Changing and Improving
+ Making Effective Decisions
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Working Together, + Are you Graduate IOSH Level 6 or equivalent accreditation and have evidence of continuous professional development.
Then please complete the CV to include your work history and qualifications and complete the Personal Statement within the online application form before 11:55pm on 12 January 2024.
The Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words) should be used to demonstrate how you meet the following essential Experience criteria:
+ Experience in managing health and safety compliance for office environments.
+ Experience in designing and delivering health and safety training for a variety of audiences (including Senior Managers and Line Managers).
+ Experience of developing and presenting complex data to a variety of stakeholders (including senior managers and suppliers)
In the event of a high volume of applications for this vacancy, an initial sift will be conducted on the lead essential experience criteria:
+ Experience in managing health and safety compliance for office environments.
Only those applications that pass the initial sift will be fully sifted.
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ –once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications –this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.
The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.
The final stage will consist of a pre-prepared presentation and blended interview, which will be conducted as a video interview using MS Teams. We expect interviews to take place during the week commencing the 27th January 2024.
The topic for the pre-prepared presentation will be provided to candidates invited to interview.
The blended interview will assess the essential Experience criteria and Behaviours listed in the ‘Person Specification’ as well as the strengths associated with the role.
We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working.
Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

To be successful in this role you will have graduate IOSH Level 6 or equivalent accreditation and evidence of continuous professional development.
You will have experience of managing health and safety compliance for office environments and supporting solutions for hybrid working including workstation risk management. Through your communication skills you can manage stakeholders and have experience of presenting complex data and delivering health and safety training to stakeholders (including Senior Managers and Line Managers).
Under HM Land Registry’s hybrid approach to working you will be expected to spend at least 60% of your working time in your contracted home office.
Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable., Are you Graduate IOSH Level 6 or equivalent accreditation and have evidence of continuous professional development?

Alongside your salary of £44,081, HM Land Registry contributes £12,770 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
#WeAreHMLR
At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.
We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.
+ We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
+ We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
+ We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
+ We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.