This position is based in the NE, the region covers Northumberland down the east coast down to Lincolnshire.

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,200 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, First Aid event cover and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

Keeping patients and St John People safe is the number one priority for St John Ambulance (SJA). Health Safety and Fire Advisor is a member of the Health and Safety team, reporting to the Head of Health and Safety.

The purpose of the role is to engender a positive safety culture through active collaboration and partnering within their specific area of responsibility. Raising the profile of health and safety with business aligned support, offering a proactive, solutions focussed approach, enabling colleagues to understand and manage health and safety successfully, whilst maintaining legal compliance based on risk profile.

Maintaining a proportionate approach to risk, acting as the competent advisor and key interface for the designated service area, whilst remaining a key part of the overall health and safety team, collaborating with colleagues and peers to create a harmonious and standardised team approach.

The role is a regional appointment and will require travelling and possible overnight stays to ensure the best use of time, resources and finances

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• NEBOSH general certificate or equivalent Level 3 qualification
• Technical Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (TechIOSH)
• Fire Risk Assessor Level 3 qualification Full UK driving licence
• Significant experienced gained within a similar role within a multi-site organisation
• Experience of creating and managing a risk profile
• Experience of accident investigation to include close out, lessons learnt and monitoring of trends
• Experience of conducting risk assessments, inspections, incident investigations and monitoring of legal compliance

About the Role 

• Act as the competent person and health, safety and fire interface, providing proportionate business aligned competent health and safety support, based on the risk profile of the designated service area, offering solutions for reduction of risk.
• Perform building audits, including Asbestos annual inspections, fire safety compliance and building condition reports
• Creation of a risk profile for the designated service area, based on knowledge of the activity undertaken, relevant statutory duties, compliance, and best practice.
• Attend regular meetings as agreed and appropriate to act as advisor for activity within the service area
• Educate, train, guide and support managers and colleagues to reduce risk, supporting the risk assessment process.
• Support managers to investigate incidents, providing expertise in legislative requirements, in particular Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) and to submit reports as required within a timely manner.
• Liaise with Human Resources on lost time incidents (RIDDOR Incidents) and report as appropriate.
• Monitor H&S incidents, accidents, near miss events and positive observations to provide accurate statistical data on a monthly basis

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply) 

To find out more about us visit www.sja.org.uk or follow us on our socials

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here:  Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Please note: This role may be subject to a DBS check