About the job

Job summary

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About the Opportunity 

Attention Bristolian Qualified Health and Safety managers! 

• Have you been responsible for the Health & Safety for a building and its occupants? 
   
• Do you want to develop your skills within Risk Assessments & Business Continuity? 
   
• Are you Qualified in NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent NQF/QCF level 3? 
   

Are you comfortable in supporting a national network of Health & Safety Managers? 

If you like the sound of them and are thinking about an exciting career within an Estates environment, then our Bristol role could be for you!  
 

About our wider team 

Although you have overall responsibility for H&S within Bristol, our H&S manager will often be required to reach across to support the wider Workplace Operations team and carry out other tasks to contribute towards the daily running of the Estate.  

This includes, handling customer enquiries, maintaining processes within the building, updating signage etc and any other tasks instructed by the Building Manager or Head of Estate. 

To find out more about the role please see Government Property Profession GPP_Career_Framework.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk) and attached Candidate Pack. 

See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert. 

Job description

About You 

As our Health & Safety (H&S) Manager within Bristol your job can vary from day to day, but we are here to support you with any unexpected things that may arise. 

We want to aid your career progression, so that you feel fulfilled and passionate about your career with us. 

 Collaborating with the Estates Health & Safety Specialist to identify any building specific H&S issues that arise from inspections, and we will support you to implement solutions and resolve any issues and remedial work.  

From time to time, you will be there to provide guidance and support to give reassurance to both HMRC and other Government departments that appropriate risk assessments are in place. 

You will also have to investigate and respond to estates related incidents and record under the ACC1 Accidents at Work process, reporting progress up to the H&S Specialist. 

• Provide regional level assurance for statutory compliance, working alongside FM Teams to ensure statutory compliance is being met and raising any concerns over levels of safety performance or statutory compliance to Head of Estate. 
• Develop and implement a full stakeholder management plan for all customers for Estates related H&S issues and implement building wide H&S communications plan.
   
• Being the POC for HR Occupational Health & Wellbeing Team queries whilst supporting the Chair of Regional Health & Safety Committees. 
• Establish and maintain a constructive and professional relationship with Estates customers and third-party suppliers, including responding to queries/escalations from colleagues within agreed SLAs (as defined by the Estates Health & Safety Specialist), to secure appropriate outcomes. 
• Handle difficult situations appropriately to deliver effective outcomes for customers and HMRC whilst always promoting best practice to our internal and external partners. 
   
• Support colleagues in national network of Regional H&S Managers, meeting regularly to share best practice and support other regions as required. 
• Provide assurance that required H&S building inductions are completed and records are maintained to meet audit requirements. Interpret and apply statutory legislation appropriately to inform required decision making. 
• After commencing employment, begin acquiring your National Security Vetting clearance at Security Check (SC) level. 

Person specification

• Essential Criteria 

• Proven recent experience in applying Health and Safety policy standard in the workplace. 
• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent NQF/QCF level 3 (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) / SCQF Level 6 (Scotland), in Health and Safety Management must be held on application. 
  
  Desirable Criteria 

• Experience of working within a building management/property/FM function. 
• Membership of IOSH or other relevant Health and Safety Organisation is desirable but not essential. 
  
  

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,092, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £9,474 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, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

Please provide a CV with up to 5 recent roles.

Please make sure you provide no more than 1000 words across the whole document. Please remove all mention of your personal details and company name. You may use function or title. Please indicate the time spent in each role, where you used your qualifications, and we will prefer demonstrable experience matching our Job Description and Essential Criteria. We want to read your impacts, outcomes, and results of your work. How you communicated and influenced others.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

 

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake, please contact us via: ubsrecruitmentexcellence@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.

Sift

In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held.

CV will be scored against the experience required outlined in the advert

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or advanced straight to the interview stage. 

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Interview

During the panel interview  Experience, Behaviours, Strengths and technical question will be assessed. 

Behaviour: 

Communicating and Influencing

Seeing the Big Picture

Working Together

Managing a Quality Service

Technical :

Health and Safety  experience to be discussed

This is an example of a strengths-based question:

 “It is often said that the customer's needs should come first. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?”

There is no expectation or requirement for you to prepare for the strengths-based questions in advance of the interview, though you may find it helpful to spend some time reflecting on what you enjoy doing and what you do well.

Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.

After interview, a single merit list will be created, and appointments will be made in strict merit order until the set demand is filled in each location. If successful, you will be informed which locations are available when we reach your position on the merit list.

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact the UBS Recruitment Excellence Team via ubsrecruitmentexcellence@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Diversity and Inclusion

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues and creating an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from all people, from all backgrounds, with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.

We’re committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues here at HMRC and want everyone to feel valued and supported to achieve their potential.

Click here for more information on how we make this happen.

Additional Security Information

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:  Please note that this role is unsuitable for contractual homeworkers due to the nature and/or requirements of the role.                                                                                                               Terms and Conditions   Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.   HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.   The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.   Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.  Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.   Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert. Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.  A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band. If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.