Social Research Scientist: Research Officer

We are looking for a social scientist to provide high quality analysis to diverse business areas across HSE, including analytical support for HSE’s Health and Work Programme and supporting maintenance of an effective legal framework for reducing work accidents and ill-health.

You will provide social science based evidence to support HSE’s policy development and programme delivery needs. Social researchers support delivery through giving evidence-based advice to inform the process of designing, targeting, running and evaluating interventions. You will work as part of HSE’s Economic and Social Analysis Team (ESAT). This multi-disciplinary team of economists and social researchers work closely on a wide variety of projects addressing the full remit of HSE’s mission. The wider Analysis and Risk Group includes statisticians, psychologists, human factors, epidemiologists and data science colleagues. You will work closely with these specialists and with policy and operational colleagues to ensure evidence can increase the effectiveness of programmes in improving health and safety outcomes.

HSE Science Division is spread principally between two sites in Bootle and Buxton, and includes a wide range of scientists undertaking research, testing, forensic work and commercial work. The small and flexible nature of ESAT provides an excellent opportunity for exposure to senior staff and for you to develop skills within a supportive team environment. There will be opportunities to conduct in-house research and analysis as well as opportunities to commission and manage externally contracted research. There will also be opportunities to work directly with the head of profession for Social Research.

Hazardous Materials Scientist – Batteries and Explosives

We have an exciting opportunity for a Hazardous Materials Scientist to join our growing team.

This vacancy is for a scientist to join our Hazardous Materials Team in the Major Hazards Group, specifically to work in the areas of battery and explosives safety and testing. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support HSE incident investigations, and valuable HSE and industry research projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces.

You will be part of a team of specialists and will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

Customer Services Officer

We are looking for motivated and dedicated customer focused people to join the team to play an important role in ensuring that HSE provides a professional response to Health and Safety Concerns, Advice requests and Building Safety enquiries within strict deadlines.

You will be working on behalf of Customer Services in a contact centre, as a call handler. Your main responsibility is to answer calls in a professional manner; direct customers to the HSE website and/or complete online forms on behalf of customers, redirect customers if it is not a matter for HSE to deal with and point customers to relevant health and safety information.

Telephone calls are varied and unpredictable in nature. Calls are received from members of the public, businesses, employees, employers, TU Reps, Local Authorities, and others. Calls range from reporting a fatal accident to dealing with a member of the public who requires advice and everything in-between.

The Welsh Language Act 1993 places obligations on public bodies in Wales (including HSE) to treat Welsh and English equally. This requires HSE to provide Welsh language communications and as part of this role, you will need to be able to speak and write in Welsh.

Principal Mechanical Engineer

This vacancy is for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to join our Engineering team in the Major Hazards Capability Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support HSE incident investigations, and research and testing projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces.

You can expect to lead and contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, especially HSE incident investigation, support and research, and also be involved in work for other government departments and industrial clients.

You will be part of a team of mechanical, electrical, and gas engineers delivering experimental testing in relation to incident investigations and safety-related research but you will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

You will be required to mentor other technical staff within the team, and may be required to undertake line management duties.

Responsibilities:

Leading and supporting incident investigations, including fatalities, working with other agencies such as the Police and attending incident sites as appropriate. This will involve travel and overnight stays away from home.
Leading and supporting the development and delivery of research and testing work including the development of work proposals and presentation of technical solutions to both technical and non-technical staff inside and outside HSE.
Writing, contributing to, and reviewing technical reports in relation to incident, research and testing projects.
Producing and reviewing expert witness statements, and presenting expert evidence in court.
Presenting technical work to a range of audiences including HSE technical staff and external stakeholders.

IT Business Relationship Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity for a Business Relationship Coordinator to join the IT Service Management Team as a member of our Business Relationship Management Team in a growing organisation. Operating in a fast paced and varied environment, your team is at the heart of enabling much of what HSE does.

Your role will be to establish and maintain a close working relationship between Information Technology Services (ITS) and HSE divisions and be the conduit for their requirements and reporting.

You will be involved in coordination, integration and continuous service improvement (CSI), ensuring our Service Management function is business driven, customer focused and value for money. This position provides an opportunity to further develop a mix of communication, prioritisation and planning skills. You will work for the IT Service Manager within Service Operations and be a member of the Business Relationship Management Team.

You will establish and embed Business Partnering/Relationship Management best practice principles. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic role at the core of HSEs Business partner/relationship activities.

Principal Scientist and Technical Team Lead Explosives and Hazardous Materials

At HSE, we work with one goal in mind – to help keep Britain’s workforce safe and healthy. Our work touches virtually every sector of Great Britain’s industries. Combining specialists from numerous fields, we strive to keep people and their working environments safe.

We don’t just inspect workplaces and investigate incidents, we campaign for better H&S practice, we craft and review guidance and regulations, we provide specialist products and services both here and overseas, and we produce crucial research and statistics – all towards our goal of helping Great Britain work well.

This exciting opportunity will be based in the Science Division of the HSE at our research laboratory and unique outdoor testing facilities, in Buxton, Derbyshire.

This vacancy is for an experienced explosives scientist / engineer to lead practical testing and research work within the Hazardous Materials team in the Major Hazards Group at our licenced explosives site. This role is to provide leadership and technical insight for the whole team but with particular focus and experience required in the area of explosives testing. You will also contribute to the work of the UK Explosives Approved Body – this has replaced the UK Explosives Notified Body as the UK has left the EU. In addition, the role will involve working closely with business development staff and potential customers and other stakeholders to develop work in this area. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support industry and government funded research projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces and ensure the safety of new emerging technologies.

In addition, you can expect to contribute to a diverse range of additional projects within the health and safety sector, for both HSE, other government departments and commercial customers. You will be part of a team of specialists and will also collaborate with colleagues across many other disciplines.

Building Safety Regulatory Lead

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, fire services and the private sector 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.

For roles in both functions, you will report to the Principal Building Safety Regulatory Lead.

We are looking for people who are leaders and able to work collaboratively with others to deliver effective regulatory compliance for HRBs. You will have a caseload and you will be responsible for making consistent decisions on regulatory outcomes. You will use the technical and specialist analysis by the partner regulators to inform your decision and proposed actions. This will include taking enforcement action where appropriate.

As the leader of the MDTs, you will determine the level of scrutiny of the property required, including site visits. You will be supported by BSD Case Officers who will support you and the MDT partners in gathering all relevant material to enable you to make your proportionate and effective decisions.

Your performance relies on the delivery from others. You will have a key role in managing and monitoring the performance of MDT members to ensure the business objectives are being met.

Paralegal Officer

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting a Paralegal to join the Legal Services Division. The successful candidate will join a small and expanding team within the division, working on the Building Safety Regulator function of the HSE. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a new regulatory regime and to and support the new team in providing legal advice and assistance on this crucial new regulatory role for HSE.

Job description

As the successful candidate, the responsibilities of the role will be varied and will include:

The provision of legal research and advice under supervision
Assisting lawyers in the preparation of cases in legal proceedings
Collation and review of evidence
Arranging and attending case conferences
Liaison with Counsel, BSR operational colleagues, witnesses, court staff and other Government Departments
Collaborating with colleagues within the legal team to establish effective policies and procedures
Arranging Court/Tribunal/Inquiry hearings, and attending as appropriate
Preparation of Court bundles; legal documents; legal instructions.

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Trainee Inspector of Health and Safety

The Health and Safety Executive are recruiting multiple Trainee Inspector of Health and Safety. As an Inspector you will be involved in a range of activities, notably inspections and investigations. Where appropriate, you will use various legal processes such as enforcement notices and prosecutions to secure health and safety compliance.

Inspections involve proactively assessing the ability of employers to effectively manage risks to their employees and others (such as contractors or members of the public). Investigations cover accidents, dangerous occurrences, ill health and concerns about workplace conditions and your role will be to uncover what has happened and why. You will have to be prepared to tell people that there is a breach of the law (you will be given lots of training to help you identify and understand this), what action needs to be taken as a result and ensure that this action is taken.

You will have the opportunity to work off site or outdoors at workplaces spread across the region surrounding your base office; occasionally outside of normal working hours.

Not everyone will appreciate what you will be trying to achieve, and sometimes it might be a struggle to change attitudes and convince others about what is required. Very occasionally you may encounter some hostility to your visit. Your training and the support you receive from us will give you the confidence to deal with a wide range of duty holders and difficult situations.

The investigation of fatalities and serious accidents may mean visiting places where there is evidence of what has happened and, in some rare instances, the deceased person may still be on site. You will work with other agencies such as the Police in such circumstances, as well as pulling from the valuable experience and expertise of colleagues and managers. At times, you may need to speak with the bereaved families and witnesses. You will need to be able to do this in a professional, but empathetic manner, communicating effectively with people at every level in an organisation and in the public arena.

For more information on this role, please follow the link below to the full job description and candidate pack.

Service Delivery Manager

We have a new opportunity for a band 3/SEO Service Delivery Manager to join our team in the Information, Technology and Services Division (ITS) within HSE.

As the Service Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery and continuous improvement of digital services across the organisation. Following established acceptance into service processes you will ensure that services are delivered to meet business objectives while maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction.

HSE’s Service Operations team strive to constantly improve the technologies and services supporting the organisation. Our service management team are very highly regarded within the organisation and pride ourselves on excellent customer service.

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