About the job

Job summary

Looking for a career change, an opportunity to take on new challenges, or just starting out and looking for the right career path? Are you interested in a career in the Safety Profession and want to earn whilst you learn? If so, this opportunity in the Army Safety Group – Capability Safety Development. We employ talented people who challenge and guide each other. At the Ministry of Defence, you will work within the highly capable team of Safety Officers who will support you to develop your skills, knowledge, and experience. What is the Army Capability Safety Group we hear you ask?  We are a newly formed team which is smaller, more agile and coordinated so we are able to meet the challenge of Defence’s future threats!  We differ slightly from the Health & Safety at Work 1974 act as in we are specifically associated to the Safety Management of the Military’s operating equipment. This Higher Executive Officer role would play a key part within the team where you will be able to make a real contribution to the work of the Army Headquarters. You will be supporting the Head of Army Safety Group and enhancing your skills and knowledge within an integral part of the Army’s capability as you will be a key member in the assurance of Army Capability Safety – without their equipment, they will not be able to operate. We are passionate about more thoughtful working and believe that a combination of flexible working practices, digital technology and modern workspaces will give you the opportunity to enjoy a healthy work-life balance, while ensuing you deliver your outcomes effectively and efficiently – we expect you to know where to be to have the most impact, balancing your individual needs with that of your team and the organisation. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

A HEO within the Capability Safety Development Team will:

• Lead and own the 2nd Line assurance of army capability safety prior to acceptance into Field Army (FdArmy)
• Act as the focal point for all Safety related issues relating to the Safety Delivery teams Capability portfolio
• Ensure, as far as possible, that safety decisions are informed by the appropriate level of competence, to include input from the user and maintainer community.
• Attend Safety & Environmental Panels where the severity of risk identifies a specific issue
• Conduct assurance of Army capability associated to the Safety Delivery Team’s portfolio, ensuring legislative, regulatory and policy compliance of Capability Safety management.
• Provide advice on the development of capability ‘safe to operate’ and ‘safely operated’ safety claims.
• Provide support to Hazard Log development
• Submit written reports (artefacts) into sharepoint demonstrating work carried out in support of Army capability delivery teams. This links to our tool to develop power BI outputs.
• Ability to make clear logical judgements based upon proportionality of detail required and time available to spend on the project/acquisition.
• Maintain own knowledge, skills, experience and behaviours (KSEB) via Continuous personal development (CPD).

Person specification

The successful candidate will need to have:

• An ability to communicate and influence a wide variety of colleagues, including those at more senior levels.
• The ability to engage and win the cooperation and support of multiple internal and external parties, holding them to account to achieve common goals.
• The ability to deliver at pace against a backdrop of uncertainty. Comfortable making decisions without having the full picture; applying knowledge and experience to reduce ambiguity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills as there will be times you will have to liaise with Senior Leaders.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Apply online via CS Jobs. There will be a sift on 2 behaviours a 750 word personal statement and CV. There will be one interview assessed against 3 behaviours and CV.

At Application Candidates will be assessed against the following Behaviours:

Leadership
Managing a Quality Service

At Interview Candidates will be assessed against the following Behaviours:

Working Together
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.