Health & Safety Advisor

Job Introduction

As Health & Safety Advisor, you will be working predominantly at Selfridges’ Head Office at the Oxford Street store, London. This exciting role is a varied one and supports many different activities and departments across our Four stores and Head Office functions. Fundamentally the purpose is to provide advice to the various stakeholders across the business, support in the management of health and safety, improve health & safety culture and knowledge and deliver safe operational practices.

There will be occasional visits to Birmingham Bullring, Manchester Exchange and Manchester Trafford stores to provide advice and assistance. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Influence and Engage

• Partnering with key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of projects and activity are safe and risks are managed appropriately 
• Improve the knowledge and understanding of the responsibilities relating to health and safety amongst stakeholders and in doing so, positively influence the behaviours of their teams 
• Support and contribute to creating robust policies and raising awareness of these policies amongst relevant parties
• Maintain awareness of changes within current Health & Safety legislation to ensure continued compliance and deliver up to date advice and support

Incident & accident management 

• Investigate and record incidents, accidents, complaints and cases of ill health. Establishing immediate cause, contributory factors and root causes with an agreed action plan to reduce/eliminate future incidents and accidents.
• Complete risk assessments and area inspections with area managers, agree action plans if applicable and support the progress through these actions

Reporting 

• Analyse data from both leading and lacking indicators and ensure regular reporting for all stores and areas of the business & work with key stakeholders to discuss the impact on their activity.

Training 

• Work with the Learning and Development team to create and deliver Health & Safety training & proactively identify training needs and opportunities

About you

• Membership of IOSH (Tech or Grad status, or working towards)
• Essential – NEBOSH General Certificate qualification (or equivalent), IOSH Managing Safely 
• Use of MS Office
• Sound knowledge of Health and Safety legislation
• Ability to work to tight deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Highly self-motivated individual with strong prioritisation skills
• Flexible approach to suit the needs of the business with a high level of care taken in each task 
• Strong team player but can also work autonomously to deliver results
• Passionate about Health, Safety and Retail 

Selfridges