About the job

Job summary

Job Purpose

As part of its 2025 strategy ONR is committed to being a modern and transparent regulator, delivering trusted outcomes and value. We are making substantial investments in new digital technologies and skills to enhance our regulatory processes and management of information.

Working within the HR Directorate, your role, as a valued member of the HSW Team will be to support the implementation and continual improvement of ONRs safety management system and strengthen our safety culture.

About The Role

The work of ONR touches every employer and employee in Great Britain within the Nuclear Sector. Our focus on regulating nuclear safety, security and safeguards, and the transport of radioactive materials imposes responsibilities on employers and employees, including a general duty on employers to protect the safety, health and security of their employees and others affected by their activities.

Similarly, ONR is committed to ensuring the health and safety of all its staff and aims to be a leader in managing health and safety effectively through demonstrable and visible leadership. This is where you come in, working within a small team your role would be to:

Job description

Principal Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of our vision for advancing our approach to effective health and safety management.
• Support ONR to protect the health and safety of our staff and meet our legal requirements through a strong understanding of the organisations risk profile and continual improvement of the safety management system.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues to embed ONRs approach to internal HSW across ONR.
• Advise and support staff to complete bespoke work activity, or personal risk assessments and work with them to develop appropriate safe systems of work.
• Assist in the production of reports and related statistics/data for presentation to the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee and the ONR Executive Team.
• Carry out audits of the management system for assurance and continual improvement purposes.
• Actively build a network of internal and external contacts with a similar risk profile to ONR to share best practice and learn from to continually improve ONRs approach.
• Provide adhoc HSW advice to colleagues on all elements of the HSW management system.
• Attend Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) seminars and read professional journals to keep up to date with new legislations and maintain a working knowledge of all Health and Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and any developments that affect ONR.

In addition to the principal responsibilities, to support provision of the HSW Teams core role and professional services the post holder, through their existing skills and experience would be expected to be able to:

• Interpret how HSW legislation, government requirements and industry standards link to ONRs work activities.
• Understand the performance expectations of the ONR Executive Team / Board and work towards a shared overall business strategy.
• Work across teams to build pragmatic and tailored health and safety solutions or advice based on a sound understanding of organisational risk.
• Influence, coach and mentor leaders to role model positive health and safety behaviours.
• Communicate and cascade health and safety expectations through relevant channels in a positive and proactive manner.

Line Management Responsibilities

• None currently, however, at this level there could be an expectation to manage staff in the future.

Location / Travel

The role can be performed from our Bootle, Cheltenham, or London office, although attendance in Bootle will be required, and occasional travel to our other offices. Some overnight stays may be required.

ONR operates hybrid working (working in the office and or at home) as part of our flexible working policy. There is an expectation that everyone will spend time in the office on a regular basis, recognising that some work is better done face to face. Managers will work with their teams on what works best to meet individual, team, business and organisational needs to enable collaboration, as well as balancing personal choice and wellbeing.

Clearance Level

BPSS

Person specification

Person Specification

ONR is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome and encourage applications from all applicants. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to ensure the recruitment process is inclusive and barrier-free. For example, providing job descriptions in alternative formats, and providing communication support and accessible venues. If you would like to discuss how we can support you, please contact  (ONR.Human-Resources@onr.gov.uk/ or  0203 028 0940  will be able to provide further information and discuss any reasonable adjustments you may need during the recruitment process. We will offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Applicants also have the choice to opt into our Guaranteed Interview Scheme when completing their application where we will offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

ONR recognises it has a role to play in helping those leaving the Armed Forces (veterans) and have introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans. This is part of a government initiative known as the ‘Great Place to Work for veterans. Veterans are officially defined as anyone who has served for at least one day in His Majesty’s Armed Forces (Regular or Reserve). All veterans who meet the minimum criteria for a role will be invited to interview and they have the choice to opt into this scheme when completing their application. To be eligible to apply for roles under the initiative, veterans must meet certain eligibility criteria below.

• have served for at least one year in His Majesty's Armed Forces (as a Regular or Reserve)
• be in transition from, or ceased to be a member of, His Majesty’s Armed Forces; and
• not already be employed by ONR.

Skills/Job Related Expertise

Essential

• Experience of interpreting how health and safety legislation apply to workplace risks.
• Experience of writing suitable and sufficient risk assessments and safe systems of work to control workplace health and safety risks.
• Ability to work autonomously, prioritising tasks effectively in order to meet deadlines and communicating progress wherever necessary.
• Ability to work with others in a positive manner to build trust and rapport, using persuasion and influence as required.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to gain support for initiatives and to enable solution implementation.
• Conversant with IT systems and the ability to analyse management information to inform decision making.

Desirable

• Experience as a health and safety practitioner, preferably within the civil service or public sector.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH diploma or equivalent health and safety qualification.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,524, Office for Nuclear Regulation contributes £27 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

For Further Information

For more information about this vacancy please contact Tracey Wylie

Email - tracey.wylie1@onr.gov.uk

Mobile - 07787 258 024

How To apply

Please submit your application through the recruitment portal.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 2nd May 2024 at 11:45pm

Your application should include:

• CV to include a full record of your education and professional qualifications and a full employment history.
• A suitability statement (maximum of 800 words) highlighting how you meet the ‘essential skills and experience” required for the role, which will be used at shortlisting in conjunction with your CV.
• Where applicable highlight if you have any experience under ‘desirable skills and experience’ within the application form.

Throughout our shortlisting process, we will make decisions about your capability to do the job, based on evidence you provide against the essential criteria (and the desirable if applicable). If you are shortlisted, you will be invited to a competency-based interview.

Important guidance when providing CV’s – please upload text-based CVs with no graphics or pictures to ensure the anonymisation function works correctly.

Please note - if whilst completing your application, you use special characters such as (‘; “- _ *) within your examples, Hireserve will convert these characters into symbols. We are currently unable to change this.

Whilst these examples will appear on your application, this will not prevent it from being reviewed at the shortlisting stage.

ONR do welcome applicants who require sponsorship through the skilled worker route. Unfortunately, this particular role does not meet the eligibility requirements. If you have any questions, please contact onr.human-resources@onr.gov.uk.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. 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.