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.

Geospatial Analyst

We are looking for a Geospatial Analyst to join our Data Management and Spatial Analysis Team (DMSA) in the Analysis and Data Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to valuable operational and scientific projects, providing services and undertaking research and analysis to support HSE’s regulation and enforcement duties.

You will be part of a team of geospatial specialists and there will be opportunities to collaborate with scientific and technical experts across many other disciplines.

Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner within the Human Resources Division.

As the Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner (HSWBP) you will have responsibility for supporting and influencing HSE divisions in building an excellent health, safety and wellbeing culture.

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

Strong leadership is required to:

• Influence thinking and actions on HSW culture at divisional and organisational level.
• Lead task and finish groups to identify and implement improvements to HSW policy and procedures and culture.
• Represent the HSW team and HSE at internal and external meetings and events.
• Build and maintain effective HSW support networks.
• Influence, coach and support senior leadership teams to achieve HSW cultural excellence in their area.

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

Senior Regulatory Scientist – Exposure Team

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Senior Regulatory Scientist to join our Non-dietary Exposure team within the Chemicals Regulation Division.

The Non-dietary Exposure Team’s function is to assess occupational and other non-dietary exposure of people to pesticides and biocides. This is an exciting time to join the team and you will play a leading role in developing the UK Government’s approaches to assessing the risks arising from exposure to chemicals and work with a variety of national and international organisations and experts. To help us meet these challenges, we require an ambitious senior regulatory non-dietary exposure expert to join us.

You will already be an established professional in occupational and non-dietary exposure assessment of biocides. Beyond your specialism you will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team of chemical and environmental scientists and other technical experts undertaking risks assessments using range of data relating to biocide active substances and products. Your role will be to lead occupational and non-dietary exposure assessments of biocides and explain conclusions and decisions internally and externally, to independent scientists, other government departments and relevant stakeholders.

As a Senior Regulatory Scientist, 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.

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

Senior Content Designer

We are currently recruiting for Senior Content Designers in our Web and Design Unit. This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and highly motivated designers who are enthusiastic about all forms of design and want to make a positive impact in helping to protect people from death, injury and ill-health.

Roles require expert practitioners with deep content design experience who will define and assure content design best practice, making sure our content aligns to HSE’s strategy and objectives, while meeting the needs of our users.

This role is key in transitioning HSE’s website and to improve engagement with citizens, employers and workers. Our website proposition includes developing an effective presence on gov.uk, while iterating and improving the existing content on hse.gov.uk. Our ambition is to produce a best-in-class web presence that delivers HSE guidance, content and services that meet user needs.

We’re looking for people with interpersonal skills who enjoy working in a demanding, high profile environment, with the ability to use a variety of different communication skills. You will need to be comfortable working independently across a range of communication, policy and digital disciplines.

Head of Devolution Engagement and Policy Team Leader

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Head of Devolution Engagement and Policy Team Leader to join our Engagement and Policy Division.

As the Head of Devolution Engagement and Policy you will have influence across all of HSE’s functions to ensure that we consider devolution early and carefully in developing and delivering our plans to protect people’s health and safety at work.

You will have ownership of HSE’s guidance framework on our devolution capability and process, maintaining its currency and ensuring it is widely implemented. Your team will help to ensure that:

HSE promotes the benefits of being a GB regulator in England, Scotland, and Wales;
Senior leaders receive assurance that HSE policy is equally effective for those we regulate (our duty holders) and workers across all three GB nations;
Our policies respect and support devolution within the UK;
We engage proportionately at the right level with stakeholders in Scotland and Wales
We maintain sufficient devolution capability.

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

Senior Policy Adviser – Scotland

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Senior Policy Advisor to join our Engagement and Policy Division.

As a Senior Policy Advisor you will help colleagues across HSE to consider how devolution could affect their work plans, ensuring policies and programmes are equally relevant and implemented across all three nations of GB, and specifically in Scotland.

You will be working within a small team as well as with colleagues across HSE to build awareness and consideration of the Scottish government’s and stakeholders’ responsibilities, and how they affect HSE policy development and delivery by:

Promoting awareness and use of HSE’s Devolution Engagement and Capability Guidance Framework and take up of devolution learning and development;

Representing HSE’s interests at stakeholder and cross-Government meetings in Scotland working collaboratively with other parts of HSE;

Proactively building and maintaining a network of contacts, working collaboratively and inclusively to protect HSE’s role and reputation in Scotland;

Supporting the direction of HSE policy and engagement with key stakeholders and partnerships in Scotland to advise senior leaders.

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

Chief Inspector of Buildings Office

We have an exciting opportunity for a Complex Case Leader to join our growing team in the Chief Inspector of Buildings Office.

You will manage a range of administrative, engagement, financial and governance processes, as well undertaking research and complex casework for the Head of the CIBO.

If you would like more information on the requirements or selection process, please see the full job advertisement.

Senior External Affairs Manager

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. Our purpose is to protect people and the environment – we save lives.

We are looking for an ambitious Senior External Affairs Manager 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 use a variety of different communication skills. They will need to combine being an all-rounder with a level of specialist knowledge in External Affairs as we operate a flexible team structure.

A dynamic and creative person, you will help to shape the way we communicate with external stakeholders on key priority work areas outlined in our new strategy.