JOB TITLE: Health & Safety Business Partner
SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860
LOCATION: Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax & Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
We want to make sure all our colleagues 'get home safely'. An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to be responsible for key Health and Safety Polices, procedures and change projects across one of the leading UK-based financial services organisations.
We want you to own the development, implementation and oversight for a series of our health and safety standards and procedures in accordance with Lloyds Banking Group's guidelines.
We are looking for a person who can operate in the space between legal compliance, best practice, and moral duties, whilst embracing the Lloyds Banking Group brand values.
End to end ownership and communication of standards and procedures as well as accident and incident investigations in line with the Lloyds Banking Group values, including:
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Horizon scanning for new legislation and guidance
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Monitoring of relevant legislation and the Lloyds Banking Group legal register
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Understanding all points of legislation, and subsequent duties, ensuring that all relevant areas are captured in the appropriate standards and understanding the impacts the changes may have on our business and colleagues.
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Ensuring standards, procedures and guidance remain current, and fit for purpose, to ensure our colleagues are always protected.
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Confirm 'real world' compliance with standards and procedures, including testing and effectiveness of controls, implementing improvement plans where appropriate.
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Ability to manage and hold to account external suppliers - constantly challenging them to operate in line with, and beyond, their contractual requirements to improve the colleague experience.
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Build excellent relationships with our Property and Business areas to ensure Health and Safety is seen as an enabler to successful change and people management.
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Be inclusive in your thinking - ensuring our policies and standards are suitable for everyone.
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you need
Tech & Communication
You'll be a great communicator, being able to provide consultation to colleagues and line managers, whilst setting suggested direction and delivery options to senior leadership, with the ability to work across the suite of Microsoft 365 products, including SharePoint and Power Platform.
Supporting Projects
Our ideal candidate will be comfortable leading, and working in project groups - making sense of complex, technical information from our suppliers, and converting it to a language our leadership understand. They should feel confident taking options and recommendations to senior forums for approval at pace, and seeing them through to implementation.
Education & Experience
Educated to Level 6 Diploma (or equivalent) in a relevant Health and Safety topic, with additional experience in the management of fire, property and construction safety.
Member of a recognised health and safety professional body (IOSH, IIRSM or equivalent in fire)
We would like you to be comfortable interpreting data and making data led decisions.
Willing to upskill as required to meet Lloyds Banking Groups duties, and support the business in delivering competent health and safety advice
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
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A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
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An annual performance-related bonus
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Share schemes including free shares
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Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
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30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
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A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
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