At the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. That’s why our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury and ill health. Combining specialists from numerous fields, we campaign for better health & safety practice, develop and review guidance and regulations, develop specialist products and deliver training, and we produce crucial research to keep people and their working environments healthy and safe.

We are excited to welcome an enthusiastic and experienced person to become a Senior Psychologist within our Risk and Human Factors Group in the Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) Science Division (SD).

You will be responsible for supporting HSE to fulfil our key strategic objectives which include reducing work-related ill health, with a specific focus on mental health and stress over the next 10 years. You will lead and contribute to applied research projects directly improving the lives of people in their workplaces. You will need to engage at different levels with scientific peers, regulatory and policy colleagues, colleagues across Government and at senior levels within organisations.

This challenging, permanent position is an excellent opportunity for a professional to make their mark in a wide variety of industrial sectors in an organisation dedicated to saving lives and promoting health.

In HSE SD, we use applied science to underpin and inform pragmatic guidance and advice to meet the current and future needs of industry. We are a leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government, nationally and internationally. The scope of our work requires a diversity of talented individuals. This breadth of expertise underpins our particular strength in creating multidisciplinary teams to support major incident investigations, policy development, undertake high quality research, provide commercial consultancy and deliver training.

You will be part of a dedicated Human Factors Team which includes psychologists, ergonomists, human factors practitioners and other disciplines. You will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

Your role will involve providing expert advice to a range of internal and external stakeholders on workplace health and safety such as:

• Stress risk management (following and building on HSE approaches);
• Job design to support good psychological health;
• Organisational change;
• Leadership;

The role will require you to undertake and lead others in project work on a variety of work psychology related topics across different occupational sectors and take responsibility for your own workload.  Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing projects which support HSE’s strategic objectives in collaboration with HSE Policy and Regulatory colleagues and project managers.
• Supporting proposed projects through the necessary commissioning and ethics approval processes.
• Working with business development and project management professionals to develop external support consultancy following quality procedures, from initial discussions with potential clients through to fully-costed proposals.
• Delivering both HSE and external projects, often concurrently, independently and leading and being part of teams, working with project managers and sometimes other disciplines and following quality procedures.
• Delivering standard and bespoke training, including virtual delivery, both within HSE and also external clients.
• Engaging with a wide range of stakeholders from organisations, industry bodies and academics from board level to shop floor through attendance at meetings and presenting at conferences and webinars.
• Having high levels of topic knowledge and appropriate research skills including literature reviews, facilitating face-to-face and virtual focus groups and interviews, qualitative data analysis, report writing and presentation of results to end users.
• Coaching team members.
• Keeping abreast of the latest research in a topic and contribute ideas for further research, offerings and products to support HSE’s mission.
• Applying your knowledge to a wide range of sectors and recognise common issues and learning across different sectors.

Some overnight travelling is expected but you will be mostly based in HSE’s Science and Research Centre in Buxton. We encourage and enable hybrid working with regular (weekly) attendance at our purpose-built centre in Buxton, Derbyshire.

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 28hours per week

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:

• A good understanding of work psychology related research methods (including qualitative and quantitative research approaches), ideally including practical experience of site assessments.
• Experience of delivering substantial, high quality projects safely and to time and cost.
• The ability to work well both independently and as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills, experience of writing clear concise reports and the ability to interact productively with a diverse range of stakeholders. This will include public speaking engagements delivering conference presentations, training courses, in court, etc.

The Change and Business Improvement Manager plays a key role in defining, building, and implementing our ambitious roadmap of digital and business transformation, focusing on operational and regulatory effectiveness and efficiency whilst improving the user experience.

The Change and Business Improvement Manager is responsible, at a project/programme level, for articulating business requirements and priorities for transformation, assessing business readiness, designing new operating models, driving business adoption, and providing specialist change management support to HSE’s operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us lead, drive, and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with our operational teams, policy colleagues, digital programmes, customer insight, and technology to deliver new ways of working, services and functions, which are efficient, effective and user focussed.
• Understand and document the baseline and current state of services and functions, define the `to be` state including TOM, service design, organisational design, business processes, information flows, operational framework and performance metrics.
• Ensure that services, processes, systems and future operating models are designed to meet the needs of users, deliver against regulatory requirements, support efficiencies and deliver against HSE’s strategic priorities and objectives.
• Lead the implementation of new operating models into live service, ensuring ongoing process compliance and control, including the optimisation of future state operations through the design and implementation of operational frameworks
• Build and manage productive and effective relationships with senior stakeholders, including Executive Committee members.
• Lead the production of business analytics, including performance and productivity baselines, demand analysis, impact and feasibility analysis, scenario modelling, activity-based cost models and benefits tracking.
• Act as a Change Leader across HSE, driving awareness and understanding of change management, approaches and tools at all levels.
• Work with our Programme Management Office to develop comprehensive business cases for change.
• Lead, line manage, mentor, coach and develop our team of business analysts.
• Support the development and communication of change and business improvement principles, guidelines and best practice throughout HSE to build knowledge and optimise service delivery.

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Experience – essential 

• Experience of leading business transformation activity that balances exceptional delivery for users, with the needs of operations and the business.
• Experience of leading change and driving change awareness within a complex and geographically dispersed organisation.
• A solid track record of delivering service/performance improvements, efficiencies, and enhanced user experience.
• Solid experience of the principles of operational excellence and how to ensure new services and ways of working are successfully implemented and embedded.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring junior team members as part of driving consistency of standards and outputs.
• Experience of developing business cases.
• Change Management Qualification, APM equivalent or equivalent qualification

You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives. The UK having left the EU offers an exciting opportunity to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future.

With a world-class reputation for safeguarding the health and safety of people at work, HSE is adapting and evolving to meet the new challenges ahead.

To help us meet these challenges, we require ambitious Senior Regulatory Chemists to join us.

In this role you will focus on the evaluation of data on the physical and chemical properties, the analytical methods and consumer risk assessment of active substances and products. The evaluations will include residues data for both pesticides and biocide active substances, methods of analysis, plant and animal metabolism data and residues in food and feed to carry out consumer dietary exposure assessments and set MRLs (Maximum Residue Levels).

You will help manage the work within the team including new requirements gained as a result of leaving the EU. Specific to the MRL role another key aspect will be to contribute to the establishment of an MRL review programme for Great Britain to ensure that all MRLs are supported by appropriate data and are safe for UK consumers.

As a senior regulatory chemist, you will mentor and support members of the team, provide peer review of work, lead on specific technical aspects, and provide advice to specialist and policy colleagues and wider stakeholders. There will also be opportunities for you to lead for HSE on national and global activities, to ensure we keep pace with new and emerging issues.

You will also have opportunities to provide training at external commercial events organised by CRD.

• Experience of assessing occurrence/ residues data in food or feed and undertaking consumer dietary risk assessments of chemicals or other contaminants.
• Experience of the evaluation of physical and chemical properties and analytical methods relating to active substances and products.
• Knowledge and experience of chemicals, biocides or pesticides legislation
• Technical credibility and experience of performing representational roles at national and international meetings
• Experience of leading or mentoring staff, developing yourself and others, and delivering to time, cost and quality criteria
• Initiative and decisiveness, supporting your ability to make effective decisions, while being open to challenge and involving others
• Comprehensive analytical skills with the ability to explain complex technical information in a clear, concise and timely way
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to collaborate effectively and engagingly with other
• Experience in building and maintaining strong, positive working relationships both internally and externally
• Outstanding organisational skills in managing a varied workload to demanding deadlines

Do you have significant experience in one of the following areas?

• Construction Project Management
• Project Management of complex projects with design, build, manufacture and testing elements

Are you looking for a new challenge in Project Management, whilst working in a more inclusive, family friendly environment with no weekend or night shifts?

If so, this is an fantastic opportunity to deliver projects that make a real difference projecting people across Great Britain’s workplaces

Based at HSE’s Science Division in the Derbyshire Peak District, you will be Senior Project Manager on a portfolio of complex/high-risk science and engineering based health and safety related projects. The projects, for commercial clients and other government departments, will include elements of design, build, manufacture, and testing, generally using waterfall methodology.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for all aspects of project management throughout the project life-cycle
• Ensuring through customer engagement that the projects plan accurately defines the projects aims, objectives and overall scope of work.
• Motivate and lead the delivery team to identify requirements, plan the work, and manage delivery to quality, time and cost.
• Proactive cost and schedule management
• Understand the needs of a diverse range of stakeholders and ensure effective communications throughout the project life cycle.
• Ensure effective project risk management is in place to ensure effective delivery and protect the business against financial risk
• Ensure high quality project information/metrics are in place to meet business needs.
• Lead post project reviews and ensure outputs are shared with stakeholders.

This role is based at HSE, Science Division’s Buxton Facility in Buxton, and it is expected that the successful applicant will be on site at Buxton 2-3 days a week.

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30hrs Per week.

About You

You will bring experience of managing and delivering high risk complex projects at pace and have an in depth understanding of planning, risk management and project management tools and techniques, including cost/budget/schedule management.

You will have great stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, be articulate, credible, able to build and influence collaborative relations at all levels. You are a team player who naturally brings people together to achieve the desired outcomes and you strive to balance the needs of all. You demonstrate a high degree of personal resilience, with the ability to excel under ambiguous and ever-changing situations.

If you are looking for a role within large, complex and high-profile projects and programmes, then we look forward to receiving your application!

Essential criteria

• Have significant experience of project management at a senior level, demonstrating strong knowledge and application, with a proven track record of successful project delivery.
• Have strong communicating and influencing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring on-time and on-budget completion.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with project stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and team members.
• Experience in risk management, including identifying and mitigating potential risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strong financial management skills, including budgeting and cost estimation.
• Experience in project scheduling, resource allocation, with excellent negotiation skills.

If you would like to discuss the role further with the vacancy holder please contact John Gummer – john.gummer@hse.gov.uk

Nationally recognised Project Management qualifications or relevant experience

With a world-class reputation for safeguarding the health and safety of people at work, HSE is adapting and evolving to meet the new challenges ahead. The UK having left the EU offers an exciting opportunity to develop and shape our chemicals regulatory schemes for the future.

To help us meet these challenges, we require a scientific team leader to lead our Chemistry team.

To lead a Scientific team, securing external input where required, to meet Chemicals Regulation Divisions regulatory and scientific commitments relating to the evaluation of the chemistry (physical and chemical properties and analytical methods) of substances used in pesticides and biocides.

There will be the expectation that the post holder will also personally contribute to evaluation work, including undertaking quality assurance for chemistry evaluations. The post holder will also be expected to participate in national and international meetings, conferences, and events. At the national level there will be liaison with industry stakeholders and with colleagues from within CRD and other government departments.

The post will require regular travel between the two offices in Bootle and York and there may be some international travel.

This is a Scientific Team Leader role, available with the option for flexible working arrangements.

HSE has adopted hybrid working which allows us all to work both in the office and at home and we will provide you with the necessary equipment to support you when working from home. However, please note that this post is an office-based role; it is not a remote location-based or home worker post. As such, the successful candidate will need to be in a position to attend their local office from the appointment date onwards. The majority of the staff in the team are based in Bootle and York, and, if this is not the local office, regular travel to the Bootle or York office will be required as well as occasional travel (with overnight stays) to elsewhere in the UK and internationally. The successful candidate will also be expected to undertake some office-based face-to-face training upon joining HSE.

Please note: part-time working is available for this role, however the minimum amount of hours we could accommodate is 30 hours per week across 4 days.

The successful candidate will have:

• Extensive post-graduate (or equivalent) experience working in a regulatory or other setting, performing evaluations on the chemistry or residues/consumer risk aspects of substances, demonstrating both your scientific skills and your ability to apply them.
• Knowledge and experience of chemicals legislation and experience of working in a regulatory environment
• Significant experience of leading teams, supporting wellbeing, recognising achievement and managing performance.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, taking responsibility for planning, allocating resource, monitoring and delivering team outcomes to time and to required standards
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining positive working relationships with stakeholders
• Initiative and be decisive, making sound decisions based on evidence
• Strong communication skills with the ability to negotiate and influence
• A commitment to a continuous learning culture, for themselves and their team

 

Responsibilities 

In your role you will be responsible for the following areas:

• To jointly lead a large team of scientists undertaking desk-based assessments of chemistry and chemical residues data.
• Specifically, lead all aspects of the team’s technical expertise in chemistry and their input to science-based regulatory assessments and evaluation, the implementation of new scientific methods and emerging areas.
• Lead and manage the team, inspiring people and developing their capabilities as well as driving a culture of teamwork, high performance and continuous improvement. Including direct line management for up to 8 x Band 3 (SEO) Scientists.
• Work closely with CRD’s other Science Team Leaders, to ensure that business planning, task allocation and resource deployment is cohesive.
• Set the culture of the team, for example by maintaining a can-do attitude and healthy and productive working relationships with others within CRD and beyond.
• Identify, through liaison with others, the work demands of the team; plan and organise the distribution of the work to secure its delivery.
• Maintain oversight of the team’s work, monitor team’s performance and output using the appropriate tools, setting clear expectations for quality and timeliness and ensuring that these are adhered to by the team.
• Secure regulatory assurance for the work of the team, including effective internal peer review and liaison with other government departments, so that science-based assessments and decisions are robust and accurate.

Minimum of a 2:2 degree or equivalent in an appropriate scientific subject or relevant/equivalent regulatory experience

The main function of the Administrative Officer role is to support the work of HSE Inspectors in frontline operational delivery. In Field Operations Division (FOD) our purpose is to prevent work-related death, injury and ill-health. We apply a range of regulatory tools to improve health and safety, bringing together different  interventions to achieve that impact. We influence and engage stakeholders, create knowledge and awareness of health and safety risks, and encourage behavioural change through assessments and direct interventions including inspections and investigations.

In this role you will contribute to the important work HSE does. You will work closely with your colleagues to deliver the key responsibilities of the post. You will be flexible and able to respond to changing work priorities at pace, which will allow you to develop your skills and knowledge. In all that you do you will be proactive, innovative and focused on delivering HSE’s business, as well as able to plan and prioritise your work. You will be required to provide support on both a local and national basis according to business need.

As part of this role, you will need to:

• Develop awareness and knowledge of HSE’s work and organisational structure.
• Acquire an understanding and knowledge of relevant operational and business support procedures and functions.
• Work closely with Team Leaders and colleagues to deliver the key responsibilities of the post, in a flexible and responsive manner, and according to agreed timescales.
• Keep abreast of changes to procedure and personal role, in line with business priorities and personal development needs, responding positively and flexibly to change.
• Deliver high level professional customer service at all times.

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 22.2hrs per week

• Develop awareness and knowledge of HSE’s work and organisational structure
• Acquire an understanding and knowledge of relevant operational and business support procedures and functions and how your role contributes to the overall success of the HSE.
• Work closely with Team Leaders and colleagues to deliver the key responsibilities of the post in a flexible and responsive manner, to the highest of standards
• Respond positively to changes of priority as work business need dictates
• Proactively engage with personal learning and development

Responsibilities:

• Provide a quality professional service for HSE, answering calls, emails and other queries in a timely, professional manner, ensuring exceptional customer service at all times.
• Provide professional administrative services, ensuring all tasks are completed on time, and in accordance with SLA’s and are to the required standard.
• Input and process data on computer systems, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail at all times, drawing conclusions from this data to make sound decisions.
• Contribute to the delivery of team projects, working effectively as a team member, with others.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with customers and external stakeholders.
• You will be proficient in the use of all Microsoft Office Packages including MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• The ability to report and analyse data in Excel would be beneficial

This is not an exhaustive list, and you may be asked to undertake tasks outside of those listed above, commensurate to the job role/grade.