Are you a NEBOSH level 3 qualified Health and Safety practitioner? Are you looking for a varied role within a theatre environment? Do you promote and inspire a positive health and safety culture? Do you have experience of delivering health and safety training courses?
In this crucial role, you will provide competent advice to all employees and support the Head of OSH in day-to-day health and safety matters, ensuring legal compliance and a positive and proactive approach to health and safety across the RSC.
The Health and Safety Advisor plays a pivotal role in supporting on productions and at events and gives you the opportunity to be hands-on in an interesting and varied environment.
Duties and responsibilities will include:
- Providing practical, competent advice to colleagues on health and safety matters, including risk assessment, safe systems of work, adherence to occupational safety and health policies and procedures and legal compliance.
- Responding to health and safety queries and help maintain the health.safety email inbox.
- Promoting a positive health and safety culture within the RSC.
- Carrying out incident investigations and write reports.
- Carrying out workplace inspections, producing reports and recommendations for actions.
- Identifying, develop, delivering and/ or facilitating health and safety training courses, including health and safety inductions, processing training documentation and data.
- Collating and analysing occupational health, safety, and wellbeing data, recommending remedial actions or improvements, where necessary.
The right person for this must:
- Have a minimum NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent Level 3 qualification.
- Have a Level 3 Certificate in Education and Training or similar training qualification.
- Be a member of IOSH or equivalent.
- Have 2+ years' experience in a similar role or department.
- Have experience of delivering health and safety training courses.
- Have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Have good working knowledge of MS Windows packages.
- Have the ability to prioritise a varied workload to achieve deadlines.
- Have an ability to act with integrity and observe confidentiality.
- Be able to communicate effectively at all levels.
This role will require you to deputise for the Head of Occupational Health and Safety, as required, including providing cover as a specialist responder to the companies Major Incident Plan out of usual working hours, whereby colleagues may attempt to contact the post holder outside of usual working hours in an emergency. Time off can be taken in lieu of hours worked as part of any incident response.
This is a full time, permanent position, and is based in Stratford-upon-Avon, with occasional remote working. The working hours are 35 hours per week and the working times are flexible dependent on the needs of the candidate. This role may include occasional travel to London.
Access and Inclusion
We are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, and welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences.
We offer support and resources to aid access to the application and interview process, as well as the role itself, should you be successful. To discuss in further detail, please contact [email protected] - we would be delighted to talk with you.
Application Process
All applications should be made online using the RSC website.
First interviews will take place week commencing 17 July 2023, and second interviews will take place week commencing 24 July 2023.
About the RSC
The RSC strives for excellence, and values integrity, inclusion, ambition, and innovation. We act with respect, show leadership, and build resilient ways of working in all our activities.
We can offer great benefits and aim to create a welcoming, supportive environment which is happy, healthy, and safe. We place great importance upon developing a diverse, highly motivated, and energised workforce to help achieve our priorities. We put our values at the heart of everything we do.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (no. 212481) is a registered charity.