Head of News and Social Media

HSE is currently going through a period of significant change. We are creating the new Building Safety Regulator, have taken on responsibility for Great Britain’s new chemical regulation regime, and are working with the Government and industry on the safe transition to net zero. We also want to maintain Great Britain’s high workplace safety standards and ensure HSE is a great place to work and an employer of choice.

This role will help HSE tell its story in an effective and efficient way through the media and social media. You’ll protect and promote HSE’s reputation, leading our busy press office, delivering impactful communications activity in support of corporate priorities, and planning and preparing our response to emerging issues. This is an exciting opportunity to join our communications leadership team.

We are recruiting a Head of News and Social Media in our Communications Branch. This is a key leadership position with responsibility for leading a team of highly-skilled communications professionals delivering a proactive media and social media function for HSE, and working to promote and protect HSE’s reputation. You will need to be able demonstrate excellent news judgment, strong leadership skills, the ability to form trusted working relationships with senior leaders, and an understanding of Government Communications.

IT Software Developer

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 Technology Services 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. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. 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.

Job description

We strive to constantly improve the technologies and services supporting the organisation. Our end user computing devices are leading edge, and we are making significant progress in delivering new cloud-based services. Our service management and information management services are very highly regarded within the organisation and pride themselves on excellent customer service. Our commercial team has built strong relationships with suppliers and our project management team is embedded in our corporate change programme, transforming the older legacy systems that have underpinned the organisation for a long time.

We are a learning team, and everyone is encouraged to undertake training, development and courses that will keep them and the team current and excited by new opportunities. The team works well because everyone’s contributions and ideas are listened to and valued, and we can only grow and improve, if there is an enthusiasm to explore our disciplines and try new ways of working.

Please note: This post will require the successful candidate to provide a level of application support out of normal office hours (Monday-Friday 0900 – 1700). This will include responding to important application issues and implementing scheduled changes and fixes when required.

Person specification

This is a very exciting time to join ITS as we continue to support HSE in the transformation of our IT services with a focus on modernising our IT Operations. As part of an internal software development function within HSE’s Information Technology Services, you will join a team responsible for the development, testing and support of HSE applications. A software developer designs, runs and improves software that meets user needs. The applications are hosted on a number of technologies (e.g. Azure; SQL Server; Ingres;) and developed using a variety of tools.

In this role, you will be responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach and creating code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse. HSE’s IT Services are currently undergoing a modernisation and we are about to get started on significant IT enabled Business Transformation. We are reinforcing in-house capability to give us the skills and experience we need to take our ambitious business plans forward. This post provides a challenging opportunity for a junior software developer to further their career and expand our development capability. Working in a small, technically skilled development team, you will develop and enhance small line of business applications.

As a Software Developer for HSE, you will help to develop new information systems and manage changes to operational information systems which support the work of HSE.

Fire Explosion and Risk Assessment Offshore Inspector

A key operational arm of HSE, Energy Division (ED) regulates the UK’s Offshore oil and gas industry, pipelines, mines, diving and renewable power generation. We employ around 140 professional engineers and scientists to do this. Respected internationally for our independent status and integrity, we have a long standing reputation for technical expertise which can be applied logically to deliver effective, proportionate solutions enabling hazardous situations to be managed safely. Offshore safety and the linked environmental protection remain high government priorities.

Fire Explosion and Risk Assessment is essential in the context of managing offshore major accident hazards, where failures can lead to catastrophic harm to workers and the environment. Energy division has a front line team of Fire Explosion and Risk Assessment Specialist Inspectors who cooperate with colleagues to regulate companies undertaking offshore oil and gas operations or related activities.

You will become part of a team of technical specialists working to help improve safety across a wide range of activities within the UK offshore major hazard industries. You will provide fire explosion and risk assessment support to IMT inspectors for both planned and reactive work. As part of the specialist team of inspectors you will also engage with a diverse range of stakeholders to keep up to date with new developments and to promulgate HSE expectations within the industry.

Principal Building Safety Regulatory lead – High Risk Building Regulation

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has established the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to ensure high-risk residential buildings (HRBs) are safe and to enable people to feel safe in their homes.

Within High-Risk Building (HRB) Regulation there are two distinct functions: Building Control and In-Occupation.

The Building Control function is about ensuring HRBs are designed and built to approved standards.

The In-Occupation function includes delivery of the Building Assessment Certificate (BAC) applications to ensure that building safety risks associated with occupied HRBs are being managed and controlled to protect residents’ safety.

As an Operational Delivery Team Leader (also known as Principal Regulatory lead) in either function you will be responsible for leading and managing the Multi-Disciplinary (MDT) leads (also known as Building Safety Regulatory leads) who are responsible for the regulatory decisions and, you will be responsible for the strategic oversight and leadership for effective and efficient delivery of regulatory compliance within HRBs that ensures residents feel safe and are safe in and around the built environment.

We are looking for dynamic, driven, leaders who are able to bring out the best in our people, work effectively with others, including external partners, and ensure efficient delivery of BSRs functions and objectives.

As well as being an effective leader, you will need effective communication and influencing skills and the ability to work with and through others in MDTs, overseeing consistent decision making regarding building safety and ensuring proportionate regulatory outcomes.

You will build effective working relationships at regional level to support MDT operations, manage and deploy resources efficiently within and across regions and monitor all aspects of operational performance and delivery within your team including risk and financial management.

As BSR is a new organisation our processes are still embedding. You will need to be alert to when things are not being delivered as expected, responding promptly to implement changes while mindful of the impact on culture, structure, morale and a diverse range of end users.

Procurement 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.

The Procurement Unit aims to provide commercial focus in the procurement service it provides to the organisation and to implement a more consistent approach to managing strategically important contracts in accordance with the Government Commercial Function principles to help us meet the challenges we face and support the business in delivering its regulatory and commercial functions. To achieve this we;

• Deliver a centralised requisitioning and procurement function which includes raising non-catalogue requisitions, sourcing, tendering and contract letting;

• Provide a contract management function for HSE’s central services contracts; managing both the contractual arrangements and supplier relationships;

• Provide support to Science Directorate in relation to its sales/commercial contracting opportunities.

• Oversee a Contract Management structure and approach which ensures that high value and strategic contracts are effectively managed in accordance with Government Commercial Function principles.

Please note: there will be a period of training which will be involved with this role, you will be required to attend the office for this training period 3-5 days per week until the training has been completed. This will be an agreement with your line manager if you are successful.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 22.5 hours per week.

Paralegal Officer

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is recruiting Paralegals to join the Paralegal Teams of our Legal Services Division (LSD). This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of significant strategic change within an organisation and to shape the creation of vibrant paralegal and business support teams which deal with some of the most complex and significant prosecutions in this area of regulatory law which, put simply, helps to save lives.

Job description

The responsibilities of the role will be varied and will include:

Liaison with Counsel, Inspectors, witnesses, court staff and other Government Departments
Arranging Court hearings, laying information and serving summonses, and preparing Court bundles
Preparing Briefs and instructions to counsel, arranging and attending case conferences, as well as attending Court hearings and Employment Tribunals
All general casework tasks, including maintaining accurate records, assisting with data collation, Collating evidence and dealing with correspondence
Travel to various locations in England and Wales to cover Trials, Hearings, Conferences and LSD training events
Overseeing workflows
Assisting in relation to budgets
Assisting with the Pandemic Inquiry and reviewing documents

For more information on this role, please follow the link below.

Senior DevOps Engineer

We have an opportunity to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the DevOps Team in the ITS Division. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

HSE’s Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering teams, comprising both internal and outsourced capabilities, delivers support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and implement continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. The team will design, establish and operate the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. The team will 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.

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 integration (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.

Secretariat Support

An exciting opportunity has arisen to take on a high-profile, diverse and challenging role as a core part of HSE’s dedicated Board Secretariat function. You will have the opportunity to be part of a wide-ranging and autonomous unit that directly interacts with and supports both the Chair and Chief Executive in their strategic and day-to-day capacities.

You will be required to provide high quality, efficient and responsive administrative, organisational, and logistical support to the HSE Board, Executive Committee members, and members of the subcommittees, including but not restricted to Operation and Regulation Committee (ORCo), Portfolio Board (PB), Strategic Design Authority (SDA), Performance Hub, Technical Design Authority (TDA) and Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee (HSW). Booking travel and accommodation with travel itineraries, directions etc. and coordinating travel with others in line with HSE travel policies. Ensuring accurate submission of travel expenses for each Board member, manage Gifts and Hospitality registers, and handle sensitive information.

You will be required to liaise with internal and external stakeholders, organise meetings, source venues, provide support for committees and meetings.

You will support and manage Divisional communication and information systems, including management and oversight of relevant SharePoint sites and CM9.

Building Safety Regulatory Lead

Are you good at making effective decisions based on analysis of information? Do you bring people together to work effectively in achieving goals? Do you want to make sure people are safe in their homes? Are you experienced in protecting people or places, driving up standards or delivering case resolutions? If so, and you have a background in risk/case management, compliance/regulatory assessments in any sector or property/building management including planning/design/development stages, we want to hear from you.

As one of the Building Safety Regulatory Leads, you will lead and manage Multi Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) of regulatory partners i.e. structural safety, planning and fire risk specialists from local authorities and fire services to scrutinise the building control applications, building and management of HRBs. You will be responsible for assessing compliance against the regulatory requirements and standards and making efficient and effective decisions to ensure compliance within the HRB functions.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, you will be playing a role in bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community, today and for the future. You will have access to a range of development opportunities including career pathways, developing others through coaching and mentoring other members of the team, as well as Civil Service learning and development programmes.

These posts can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here

For more information, please visit our website using the following link: Building Safety Regulator- HSE

Lead Scientist – Noise/Vibration

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Physicist, Acoustician or allied scientific discipline with experience and understanding of human exposure to noise / vibration in the workplace or in the wider environment to join the Exposure Assessment and Control (EAC) Team at the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).

EAC is part of HSE Science Divisions’ Health Group whose purpose is to prevent worker ill health caused by exposure to chemical, physical and biological hazards.

In this role you will develop and manage the portfolio of research and scientific support in noise and vibration that underpins HSE’s guidance and regulatory approach.

This is an excellent opportunity for a professional to make their mark on an organisation dedicated to protecting people and places and helping to lead safer and healthier lives. The position will be based at our Science & Research Centre in Buxton, Derbyshire. The Centre is an internationally renowned scientific facility for health and safety, employing scientific, medical and technical specialists in a purpose-built laboratory at our 550-acre site.