Communications Officer External Affairs

We are looking for an ambitious Communications Officer specialising in external affairs to join our award-winning communications team, with a strong focus on innovation and making a difference in people’s lives. We are looking for someone who can combine being an all-rounder and use a variety of different communication skills, with a level of specialist knowledge in External Affairs as we operate a flexible team structure.

You will need to be comfortable working as part of a team and independently, selecting the most effective methods and channels for communication based on stakeholder needs. You will need strong influencing skills and the ability to cut through a variety of competing priorities. You will be experienced in building good working relationships in pressured environments and be an enthusiastic team-player with a proactive and collaborative attitude. You will have an enthusiasm to get on the front foot, proactively communicating and shaping the narrative, aligned with a clear understanding of how to work with and influence stakeholders. Your role in the team will be responsible for helping set and drive delivery of HSE’s communication strategy.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated external affairs specialist who is enthusiastic about communications to make a positive impact in citizens lives.

Digital Performance and Data Analyst

HSE is highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The benefits that our work brings to business, workers and the UK economy are clear. Improved health and safety risk management protects workers and translates into reduced sickness absence, lower healthcare and welfare costs, and better productivity.

As a Digital Performance Data Analyst, you will be responsible for making the best use of data, tools, analytical techniques and industry best practice to deliver analysis of the very highest quality for HSE’s web services, digital platforms and campaigns, to meet the digital service standard.

The key purpose of this role is to provide the best quality data and analytics to help with content design and to optimise the performance of our website and related digital services.

You will deliver and develop HSE’s digital content and communications channels – such as www.hse.gov.uk and the eBulletin email service – with evidence and insight into user needs. You will interpret and implement analytics data to ensure quality and accessibility standards are met, and continually deliver growth and improvements to the user experience for each digital channel.

At HSE, we offer hybrid working. The successful candidate will have the flexibility to work from home and their nearest HSE office. There will be a requirement to travel to Bootle one day a week (or when required). Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office or home to Bootle is a feasible distance to travel.

Further details of HSE locations can be found in the following link HSE Offices

Economic/Regulatory Analyst

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Economic/Regulatory Analyst to join our Socioeconomic Analysis Team within the Chemicals Regulation Division.

The Socioeconomic Analysis Team is responsible for providing high-quality advice and analysis to ensure that chemicals are regulated in line with legislative requirements and safety standards.

You will work in areas such as regulatory science, impact assessment and cost benefit analysis, collaborating with scientists, policy advisors, and operational delivery teams on regulatory issues related to chemicals. Your primary tasks will be related to assessing and scrutinising the socioeconomic impact of proposals to regulate chemicals under the new UK Chemicals Regime (UK REACH). The scale and scope of questions that the analyst may have to deal with will vary, but will primarily be related to the costs and benefits of chemicals regulation and the technical and economic feasibility of alternatives and substitution of chemicals of concern.

You will be expected to explain your decisions internally and externally, to Expert Committees, other government departments and relevant stakeholders. You will have experience of applying economic thinking to complex situations and developing analysis to address policy questions. This will include writing technical reports and communicating complex analysis effectively and clearly to stakeholders, as well as developing an understanding of the relevant science and legislation related to chemicals and regulatory decision making. This post provides excellent opportunities for an economic/regulatory analyst who is willing to develop an understanding of the relevant science, economics and legislation related to chemicals regulation.

For further information on the full job description and application process please see Civil Service jobs.

Procurement Officer

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting a Procurement Officer to join our Planning, Finance and Procurement Division.

As a Procurement Officer, you will be operating within the fast paced environment of the Procurement Division. The Procurement Unit aims to provide commercial focus in the procurement service we provide to the organisation and to implement a more consistent approach. We manage strategically important contracts in accordance with the Government Commercial Function principles, to help us meet the challenges we face, as well as supporting the business in delivering its regulatory and commercial functions.

Responsibilities

Process requests for goods and services into requisitions ensuring that relevant spending controls, approvals and processes have been adhered to, in accordance with Procurement Regulations;
Provide support to Science Directorate in relation to its sales/ commercial contracting opportunities – depending upon location, occasional travel to Buxton, Derbyshire may be required;
Provide support for the Procure-to-pay (P2P) process, including undertaking goods received action, invoicing, payment form processing and general queries;
Provide ad-hoc administrative support to Head of Procurement as required;
Providing general advice on P2P, suppliers and processes in place;
Undertake Records Administrator role for the Unit.

For further information on the full job description and application process please see Civil Service jobs.

Pay and Reward Lead

The HR Division (HRD) is a strategic, corporate, expert division which provides services to the organisation. Therefore, its role is to meet the needs of the organisation by developing, promoting, implementing and embedding best practice in people leadership and management. In addition, HRD is responsible for enabling people to develop and grow and fulfil their potential at work and by ensuring that the organisation is successful.

HSE’s Reward Strategy to ensure it supports business requirements;

For 22/23, this is likely to include supporting the implementation of HSE’s ambition of introducing long term pay reform (subject to an agreed Business Case)
Delivery of pay and reward policies and procedures to support HSE’s aim of attracting and retaining the best talent and making it a great place to work
Provide excellent leadership and development for the Pay and Reward team
Managing relationships and service provision of third-party providers including our shared services provider (Shared Services Connect Ltd) and pensions provider (MyCSP).

Experience
• Proven ability to lead, develop and motivate staff to deliver high performance.
• Strong track record and extensive experience of the practical development, implementation and application of innovative pay and reward solutions and policies, preferably in the Civil Service
• Proven track record of communicating complex issues with clarity to a wide range of stakeholders.
• A track record of building successful relationships with and winning the trust of a wide range of stakeholders including Trade Union representatives, senior leaders and peers.
• Ability to work under sustained pressure and scrutiny.

Qualifications

You will ideally be a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or have an extensive and demonstrable HR experience in a comparable senior role and be willing to work towards CIPD membership.

Location

The successful candidate can be based in any HSE location outside London but a regular presence in our Bootle HQ (where many of the HR Division are located) will be required. To see a full list of HSE locations please click here.

Pesticides Enforcement Officer

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Pesticides Enforcement Officer to join our Enforcement Team within the Chemicals Regulation Division.

This is a frontline role where you will need to be able to influence duty holders, identify material breaches of regulations, act to remedy breaches and check compliance with duties defined in a range of chemicals regulations. You will work closely with CRD inspectors to gather evidence for prosecutions and to serve enforcement notices. You will also be expected to work independently upon demonstration of the required competencies.

You will be required to undertake a combination of proactive and reactive duties, including involvement in investigations; and there will be a need to acquire an understanding and knowledge of relevant operational procedures.

This role will provide you with significant opportunities to develop knowledge of enforcement practice and policy and working collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners and stakeholders.

The role of a Pesticides Enforcement Officer (PEO) will continue to evolve and you will need to remain flexible to adapt to new challenges as the Enforcement Team grows, including developing new online investigation tools and techniques; and prepare for the major changes required to implement under the Official Controls Regulation 2017/625, a programme of controls at GB operators.

For further information on the full job description and application process please see Civil Service jobs.

Radiation Specialist Inspector

Our Radiation Specialists help to ensure employers in Great Britain work safely with radiation across a range of sectors (e.g. industrial, medical, oil and gas). In this role, you can utilise your considerable scientific technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industries and sectors.

Working as part of a unique national specialist team, you will carry out your own inspections and investigations, taking enforcement where necessary, including the serving of notices and completion of prosecution reports. You will also provide specialist support to other parts of HSE.

We are looking for high calibre specialists who have:

Professional experience in radiation protection at a senior level
Experience of providing advice on compliance with the Ionising Radiations Regulations, and ideally the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations, to a range of duty holders in different sectors, for example by acting as an individual RPA or as part of an RPA body.

Please note the post can be based at any of the advertised HSE locations however, as this is a national role and HSE regulates sites across the whole of Great Britain, you will be expected to regularly spend short periods working away from home which will include overnight stays. For a list of HSE offices please see HSE locations

Independent Members: HSE’s Science Quality Assurance Group (SQAG)

4-year appointment starting in January 2023

Location: England, Wales, Scotland
Remuneration: £4800 (honorarium payment) plus reimbursement of reasonable travel expenses.

HSE is looking for experienced scientists ,engineers and analysts to be members of a new Science Quality Assurance Group which will provide the HSE Board, Chief Executive and Chief Scientific Adviser with independent and objective assurance on the relevance and quality of the science, engineering and evidence produced across HSE which is commissioned and delivered in support of HSE’s strategy and plans. This Group will provide an assurance function, and it will have no decision-making powers.

We would welcome applications from people who have substantial expertise in areas relevant to the breadth of HSE research and who show the ability to work across a wide range of relevant scientific disciplines. This experience could include industrial, academic, government or other sectors as long as it includes activities related to applied research in an interdisciplinary environment.

It is anticipated that this role would involve a maximum of 8 days- worth of effort per year. Each independent member is expected to prepare for and attend a minimum of 2 full group meetings each year. The HSE Chair, HSE Board or the Accounting Officer (AO) may ask the SQAG Chair to convene further meetings to discuss particular issues on which they want the Group’s assurance.

Each Independent Member will also be a subgroup member and will undertake at least one “deep dive” each year; this will be an intensive review of the science relating to a particular area. The deep dive may include a range of activities such as presentations of research by HSE’s scientists, engineers and analysts, assessment of reports, papers and abstracts, visits to research facilities and discussions with HSE scientists and their leadership teams. Each deep dive will have a member of the subgroup nominated by the Chair to be the leader for the deep dive. Each deep dive will take up to three days to complete.

Meetings will be held face-to-face, with the option for some hybrid meetings depending on the nature of the discussions.

For full information on this opportunity please refer to the Information Pack.

To Apply
Please email a comprehensive CV setting out your career history, with responsibilities and achievements, a covering letter highlighting your suitability and setting out how you meet the essential criteria. Please note that the supporting statement is an important part of your application and is as much the means by which you will be assessed as your CV.

Please email your CV, supporting letter and completed monitoring form to linda.heritage@hse.gov.uk quoting SQAG APPLICATION in the subject field. Attach your supporting letter, CV, and monitoring form as separate documents to your email.

Applications must be received by midnight 21/10/2022. Receipt of applications will be acknowledged by email.

Interviews (virtual via TEAMS) will be conducted with shortlisted candidates throughout November.

If you have any questions about this opportunity and would like to discuss either the role or the application process, please contact HSE’s Chief Scientific Adviser andrew.curran@hse.gov.uk

SQAG Indepedent Member Applicant’s pack_

Head of Financial Accounting and Reporting

The Head of Financial Reporting and Accounting will be a key member of HSE’s Finance team and will represent HSE in cross-government initiatives. There will also be opportunities to contribute to pan-HSE projects as part of multi-disciplinary teams.

You will report to the Assistant Director of Finance, leading a small Finance team to strengthen delivery of core financial controls, providing technical accounting advice and producing the statutory financial accounts and other external reports (e.g. to HM Treasury, Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions).

You will lead a team jointly with the Head of Financial Management & Control and it will therefore be important to work closely together. You will also influence and work with other stakeholders across the business, including Finance Business Partners.

Please note the post can be based at any of the advertised HSE locations, however there will be a requirement to attend our HQ in Bootle for meetings approximately twice a month. For a list of HSE offices please see HSE Locations

Specialist Inspector Microbiology and Biotechnology

Our Specialist Inspectors of Microbiology and Biotechnology help to ensure employers across Great Britain in a whole range of important and essential sectors work safely with hazardous microorganisms and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). In this role, you can utilise your considerable technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

A career with HSE gives you a rare opportunity to visit and interact with different and diverse employers and work activities. One day you could be inspecting in a large industrial vaccine production plant and the next investigating a laboratory acquired infection in a hospital diagnostic facility.

Your work with HSE will make the most of your experience – whether that’s inspecting a laboratory complex, reviewing and assessing licensing applications, investigating accidents and incidents involving microorganisms or GMOs, or providing technical assistance and advice to colleagues in other parts of HSE or other Government departments. This role will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can.

This is your opportunity to be part of the future of the life sciences in GB and to make a difference using your knowledge and skills, whilst continuing your development within the unique variety and depth of challenge that HSE offers you.