Technical Learning and Development Specialist

The purpose of this role as a ‘Technical Learning and Development Specialist’ is to ensure HSE has the right skills and knowledge required to deliver its strategy and to equip colleagues with the expertise to perform effectively in their role. As Technical Learning Specialist you will work as part of a wider team in leading the design and delivery of regulatory and technical training needs that align with organisational needs.

As the Technical Learning specialist you will work closely with the Heads of Learning and delivery alongside both internal and external stakeholders and SMES to ensure that training needs and competencies are identified, and that training deliverables are targeted and appropriate. You will work to understand precise requirements, and to translate this into a modern, inclusive, and blended learning package. This role will play a key part in building capability across the organisation, developing career pathways and enhancing the technical training offer.

If you are interested in understanding more about this vacancy, please refer to the full job advert for further information.

Learning and Development Specialist

The purpose of this role as a ‘Learning and Development Specialist’ is to ensure HSE has the people capabilities required to deliver its strategy and to equip colleagues, managers and leaders in their development. As Learning & Development Specialist you will work as part of a wider team in leading the delivery of employee learning, organisation development, and training needs that align with individual and organisational needs. This will support the delivery of the key strategic people themes and ensure the organisation has the right people skills and culture to deliver.

This role will play a key part in refreshing the management and leadership development offer, building capability across the organisation, developing career pathways and enhancing the talent development offer.

This role carries a significant leadership responsibility and will be responsible for leading on key areas of work that underpin the Learning & Organisation Development strategy for HSE. To succeed in this post you will need to be a positive collaborator with an expert level knowledge of the full cycle of Learning & Development. You’ll demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism and personal integrity in all your activities and will be passionate about developments in our profession, showing a drive for innovation and improvement.

If you are interested in understanding more about this vacancy, please refer to the full job advert for further information.

Supplier Partner Manager

HSE is looking for an experienced partner / supplier manager to join our internal business change and project delivery capability. HSE is relatively early in its transformation journey with a number of big programmes underway and a sizeable pipeline of work ahead to support both corporate, and service specific change across the organisation.

Over the next few years our activity will include both the delivery of discrete projects and the building of our internal capability and infrastructure, in IT, Digital, Data, Project and Change management. This will require HSE to work with a range of external partners to help ensure we have the appropriate capability and support to enable us to deliver effectively both now and for the future.

You will play a key role in bringing in and managing the activities of any external partners that HSE work with, acting as the key liaison between HSE and individual partners, as well as between partners themselves, where their activities are complementary or dependent on each other. With a strong understanding of change and project delivery and commercial experience you will help ensure HSE maximises value and leverages capability from delivery partners.

If you are interested in understanding more about this vacancy, please refer to the full job advert for further information.

Senior Communications Manager – Various Roles

We are currently looking for four senior communicators as follows:
Senior Communications Manager – Internal Communications
Senior Communications Manager – Media and Digital Content
Senior Communications Manager – External Affairs
Senior Communications Manager – Campaigns and Digital Content

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced senior communicators who are looking to make a positive impact in citizens lives to join our award winning communications team. At HSE, we offer hybrid working. The successful candidate will have the flexibility to work from home or their nearest HSE office. There will be a requirement to travel to Bootle at least 2 days a month (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.

We are looking for people who have the ability to use a variety of different communication skills. They will need to combine, being an all-rounder with a level of specialist knowledge in their chosen communications specialism – strategic communications, campaigns, external affairs, digital content, internal communications or media.

For further information on the four vacancies and the application process, please see the full job advert.

Offshore Human Factors Specialist

Do you have experience of applying Human Factors expertise within the workplace?, do you enjoy a varied workload, where no two days are the same? Do you want to be part of an organisation that helps keep Great Britain safe?

If you have answered yes, we could have the perfect opportunity for you.

As Britain’s national regulator for workplace Health and Safety, the HSE promotes safer working practises, protecting you and your family from workplace related deaths, injury and ill health.

We strive to achieve excellence in all that we do, and we need YOU to help us in achieve this.

As a HM Specialist Inspector of Human Factors (Offshore) working in the Energy Division (ED) you will have substantial practical Human Factors experience within a major hazard industry, preferably the offshore oil and gas industry.

If you have the ability to work alongside other technical specialists to optimise human and organisational performance to help improve safety across a wide range of activities within the UK offshore major hazard industries, we would love to hear from you.

For further information on this role please visit our careers page: LINK

Here at the HSE we recognise that our staff are the most important asset and as a thank you to all we offer the following benefits: competitive pension scheme contributions, flexi leave, competitive maternity / paternity / adoption leave and so much more.

*To be considered for this role you must have Chartered Membership or Chartered Fellowship of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) or the British Psychological Society (BPS).*

Visiting Officer / Regulatory Contact Officer

The work of our Visiting Officers/Regulatory Contact Officer is focused on HSE’s operational priorities. They work alone, and alongside inspectors and specialists supporting their work. They assist with inspector-led workplace inspections; investigations of work-related incidents affecting workers and the public, health and safety related enforcement activity; and campaigns and promotional activities designed to improve the management of health and safety in the workplace.

We are recruiting into a number of our divisions for these roles.

Construction Division
Construction Division (CD) regulates health and safety in the building industry, construction engineering and in licensed asbestos removal work. CD’s visiting officers work in CD’s 21 construction teams across Great Britain delivering interventions in construction workplaces and with industry stakeholders, and work alongside inspectors and construction engineering specialists supporting their inspection, investigation and enforcement activities.

Field Operations Division:
Field Operations Division (FOD) regulates health & safety across a range of industries, including general manufacturing, agriculture, fairgrounds, crown, fire, police, and health services across the whole of Great Britain (this list is not exhaustive). As one national delivery division, FOD is organised into 3 teams who cover every area of GB, supported by national Specialist & Occupational Health Teams. FOD’s visiting officers work alongside all of these teams, delivering interventions in workplaces and with industry stakeholders to support investigation and enforcement activities. Visiting officers are also expected to carry out their own investigations and interventions with direction and support of their principal inspector.

Energy Division
Energy Division regulates health and safety in a wide range of major hazard industries, including gas distribution, mines, quarries, diving, and renewable energy to support net zero transition. ED also engages in wide ranging stakeholder engagement to achieve regulatory impact. In all of these sectors specialist and B2 regulatory inspector resource is utilised to deliver this work, in addition diving in particular has a high investigatory workload. All teams cover large geographical areas.

Chemical Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division
Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) is responsible for the GB-wide regulation of onshore major hazard premises and installations as well as the chemicals manufacturing sector as a whole. This involves regulatory interventions in workplaces, engaging with key industry stakeholders and providing assurance to Government and the public that major accident risks are being properly managed.
The sectors we regulate in CEMHD are essential to the country’s economy and social infrastructure, but they often involve hazardous substances and processes with potential for catastrophic accidents. The purpose of CEMHD is to make sure that the businesses that present a risk of such catastrophic events are managing those risks properly.

For further information on this vacancy and the requirements to apply, please visit the full job advert on Civil Service Jobs.

CSA Official

Do you have scientific background and experience in working with a CSA/HoSEP team? Do you consider yourself to be someone who can provide resolutions to difficult issues and proactively build effective relationships? Do you want to be part of an organisation that helps keep Great Britain safe?

If you have answered yes, we could have the perfect opportunity for you.

As Britain’s national regulator for workplace Health and Safety, the HSE promotes safer working practises, protecting you and your family from workplace related deaths, injury and ill health.

We strive to achieve excellence in all that we do, and we need YOU to help us in achieve this.

As a CSA Official within our Science Division (SD) you will work closely with senior managers, developing and implementing plans that closely support departmental overall aims and those of wider Government. If you have experience as an effective leader, ideally with experience of delivering time critical responses to new and emerging issues and also experience in taking a personal lead in devising, implementing and evaluating effective actions to address new and emerging issues, we would love to hear from you.

For further information on this role please visit our careers page: LINK

HM Specialist Inspector (Human Factors)

Do you have experience of applying Human Factors expertise within the workplace? Do you enjoy a varied workload, where no two days are the same? Do you want to be part of an organisation that helps keep Great Britain safe? If you have answered yes, we could have the perfect opportunity for you.

As Britain’s national regulator for workplace Health and Safety, the HSE promotes safer working practises, protecting you and your family from workplace related deaths, injury and ill health.

We strive to achieve excellence in all that we do, and we need YOU to help us in achieve this.

As a HM Specialist Inspector (Human Factors) within Chemical Explosives & Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD), you will have practical experience of applying Human Factors expertise within the workplace, with experience of applying Human Factors to the control of risks within major hazards industries (such as the Chemical and Downstream Oil Industries).

If you have the ability to work alongside other technical specialists to ensure work activities are operating within the legislative framework by inspecting workplaces, investigating accidents and intervening with companies, we would love to hear from you.

To be eligible to apply for this role, you will have a degree in Ergonomics or Human Factors. Alternatively, a degree in an engineering subject or psychology, with a relevant post-graduate qualification in Ergonomics, Human Factors or Organisational Psychology.

Regulatory Inspector Quarries

Are you looking for a challenge? Can you think strategically and engage at different levels with technical staff and senior management? If so, we are looking for high calibre and experienced specialists to carry out inspections of quarries and surface coal mines including their ancillary operations. You need to be decisive to influence those organisations to bring about improvements.

You will investigate accidents and incidents and take appropriate action where necessary to secure sustained compliance with legal requirements. You will also be instrumental in contributing to the development of industry guidance, standards and operational strategy. You will be required to represent HSE at meetings with fellow professionals, industry, other HSE staff, including speaking and making presentations at conferences.

To be eligible to apply for this role, you will need to have a relevant Engineering Degree or equivalent. You will also need relevant qualifications in shotfiring and blast design coupled with practical knowledge and experience or be able to demonstrate competence in the safe use of explosives for quarry blasting by other means.

Head of Content

We are currently recruiting for two (Head of Content) roles, one will be specifically related to our work on building safety regulation.

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and highly motivated leaders who are enthusiastic about content 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. If you would like more information about this vacancy, please visit the civil service job for the full job description.