Paralegal Officer

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting a Paralegal to join the Legal Services Division. The successful candidate will join a small and expanding team within the division, working on the Building Safety Regulator function of the HSE. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a new regulatory regime and to and support the new team in providing legal advice and assistance on this crucial new regulatory role for HSE.

Job description

As the successful candidate, the responsibilities of the role will be varied and will include:

The provision of legal research and advice under supervision
Assisting lawyers in the preparation of cases in legal proceedings
Collation and review of evidence
Arranging and attending case conferences
Liaison with Counsel, BSR operational colleagues, witnesses, court staff and other Government Departments
Collaborating with colleagues within the legal team to establish effective policies and procedures
Arranging Court/Tribunal/Inquiry hearings, and attending as appropriate
Preparation of Court bundles; legal documents; legal instructions.

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Trainee Inspector of Health and Safety

The Health and Safety Executive are recruiting multiple Trainee Inspector of Health and Safety. As an Inspector you will be involved in a range of activities, notably inspections and investigations. Where appropriate, you will use various legal processes such as enforcement notices and prosecutions to secure health and safety compliance.

Inspections involve proactively assessing the ability of employers to effectively manage risks to their employees and others (such as contractors or members of the public). Investigations cover accidents, dangerous occurrences, ill health and concerns about workplace conditions and your role will be to uncover what has happened and why. You will have to be prepared to tell people that there is a breach of the law (you will be given lots of training to help you identify and understand this), what action needs to be taken as a result and ensure that this action is taken.

You will have the opportunity to work off site or outdoors at workplaces spread across the region surrounding your base office; occasionally outside of normal working hours.

Not everyone will appreciate what you will be trying to achieve, and sometimes it might be a struggle to change attitudes and convince others about what is required. Very occasionally you may encounter some hostility to your visit. Your training and the support you receive from us will give you the confidence to deal with a wide range of duty holders and difficult situations.

The investigation of fatalities and serious accidents may mean visiting places where there is evidence of what has happened and, in some rare instances, the deceased person may still be on site. You will work with other agencies such as the Police in such circumstances, as well as pulling from the valuable experience and expertise of colleagues and managers. At times, you may need to speak with the bereaved families and witnesses. You will need to be able to do this in a professional, but empathetic manner, communicating effectively with people at every level in an organisation and in the public arena.

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Service Delivery Manager

We have a new opportunity for a band 3/SEO Service Delivery Manager to join our team in the Information, Technology and Services Division (ITS) within HSE.

As the Service Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery and continuous improvement of digital services across the organisation. Following established acceptance into service processes you will ensure that services are delivered to meet business objectives while maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction.

HSE’s Service Operations team strive to constantly improve the technologies and services supporting the organisation. Our service management team are very highly regarded within the organisation and pride ourselves on excellent customer service.

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Health, Safety and Wellbeing Service Delivery Co-ordinator

At Health and Safety Executive (HSE) we want to create the conditions for all colleagues to be healthy, safe and well at work. To ensure we can achieve this aim we have launched an improvement programme to strengthen how we lead Health Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) through our people then underpin with effective systems.

As part of embedding our Achieving Cultural Excellence (ACE) programme and delivering our 9 Organisational Priorities through our People Plan, we need HSW capability to develop and deliver our health, safety and wellbeing changes through our contractual services and support functions.

The People Plan is a priority for HSE and one that presents exciting and challenging opportunities for colleagues who wish to be part of a HSW improvement programme that will endure and make a real difference to colleagues in HSE.

We are looking for someone who will work closely with HSW team colleagues and committees, HSE divisions, support functions and stakeholders to lead change and advocate health, safety and wellbeing cultural excellence in HSE.

Finance Business Partner

We have an new opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our team with the Planning, Finance and Procurement Division (PFPD) within HSE.

As the Finance Business Partner to PFPD, HR, Legal Services Division, and Estates, you will provide quality insight, challenge and rigour across the organisation to deliver operational and corporate activity targets within accurate financial forecasts.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to play a pivotal role within the Finance function with the opportunity to develop and progress your finance career within HSE or the wider Government Finance Community.

Data Architect

This is an exciting time to join HSE. A series of change programmes are delivering new Digital IT solutions to replace legacy systems and improve processes. Each programme supports a specific operational area within HSE, but there will be commonality across the solution building blocks that require designing and integrating. There is a blend of internal and 3rd party resources to deliver these programmes.

HSE Information and Technology Services Division includes an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Team, responsible for the development of an Enterprise Architecture (including Business, Data, Applications and Technology domains), defining and executing technology strategy, and for directing and assuring the delivery of new IT Solutions.

You will oversee the Data Architecture domain within HSE EA Team, working closely with Business and Application Architecture. You will develop and help manage HSE Corporate Data Models, Data Architecture principles and standards.

You will assist in the review and governance of Change Programme Solution Designs from a Data Architecture perspective, ensuring strategic alignment, and compliant with EA collateral (e.g. Corporate Data Model, Data principles)

Invoicing/Reimbursement Officer

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. We act in the public interest to reduce work-related illness, death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in HSE’s central finance division (PFPD), this is a personal performance post that will have direct responsibility for the delivery of the cost recovery/ invoicing function for the newly formed Building Safety Division (BSD).

Your main duties will include:

The production of invoices and handling of subsequent queries from both internal and external stakeholders.
Working closely with the BSD Operational Support Team to streamline and improve processes and ensure accurate invoices are directed to the correct duty holder.
Work with officials from the Fire & Rescue Service and Local Authorities to ensure the timely reimbursement for their services when commissioned by the BSD. This includes extracting data from Dynamics and monthly reporting and reconciliation.

DevOps Engineer

Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. ITS support over 3000 colleagues working across Great Britain and, our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.

To deliver Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering for all HSE cloud-infrastructure services ensuring that all technologies (cloud-network, cloud-hosting (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), cloud-storage and cloud-security) remain available, performant to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and relevant to business requirements. Deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and support the implementation of continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. Operate and deliver the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. Ensure that new cloud-based technologies are secure by design and remain secure during operations, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.

Senior Regulatory Toxicologist

We are looking to welcome three ambitious Senior Regulatory Toxicologists to our teams. We have two posts available in all office locations listed, and one position available in any office location listed outside of London.

This is an exciting time to join Chemicals Regulations Division (CRD) with opportunities to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future. Our primary role is to deliver regulatory schemes intended to protect the health of people and the environment.

From the start, toxicologists will apply expert knowledge and experience to assess the human health hazards and risks of a variety of chemicals, including pesticide and biocide active substances and their formulations, and general chemicals regulated under UK REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals).

Fire & Explosion Scientist/Engineer

These junior engineer or scientist posts are based in the Explosive Atmospheres Team, at HSE’s Science and Research Centre based in Buxton. The team is largely focused on the safe development of new energy technologies and achieving safe net zero, primarily hydrogen for heat & transport. The team undertake large (outdoor) and lab scale experimental programmes, consultancy and deliver specialised training, giving opportunity for both practical and desk-based work. Several of the teams larger ongoing projects are high profile collaborations with other scientific organisations/government departments, which offers opportunity to publish work and present at conferences.

We are looking for someone with a relevant qualification who is looking to work, develop skills and gain experience in a creative scientific/engineering environment to join our team. You will be contributing to the design, build and delivery of in/outdoor scientific experiments. The scale of these experiments ranges from being lab based, to using 1:1 scale outdoor test facilities. You will be joining the Explosive Atmospheres team that is comprised of approx. 12 scientists and engineers of varying experience. As a member of the team, you will be expected to contribute to its effective running, which may include the maintenance of team facilities, quality systems, or health safety wellbeing matters e.g., taking a role in calibrating equipment. You will have opportunity to develop competence in the following areas specific to team, such as DSEAR, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Process Design (P&IDs), Process Instrumentation, Data Logging, or Combustion Physics. The role will involve a significant amount of problem solving and allow you expand your range of expertise.