About the job

Job summary

The SHEFA is responsible for overseeing and conducting the management of Safety, Health, Environment and Fire processes on behalf of 43 CDO FPG RM Commanding Officer in accordance with JSP 375, JSP 418, JSP 815 and BRd 10. Working closely with Unit and Naval Base Personnel, building managers, and the Infra Works Liaison Officer the SHEFA will ensure that the Commanding Officer is able to operate and deliver outputs safely and to the standards expected by the Health and Safety Executive Department (HSE).

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the management of the Unit Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS) ensuring it complies with Legislative and MOD policies. This includes drafting the Unit HS & EP Management Plans, Risk Register and Auditing on behalf of the SHEFO. The SHEFA acts as the 4C's Duty Holder on behalf of the Commanding Officer ensuring Legislative processes and MOD policies are followed. 

The role will require the successful candidate to act as the focal point and provide advice, leadership, guidance and mentoring on Health, Safety and Environmental Protection (HS & EP) matters at the Unit. This will include management of Fire Risk Assessments (FRA's) and other fire safety issues liaising with relevant contractors, Fire and Rescue and Defence Fire Regulator as required. 

A critical component of the SHEFA role is to facilitate HS & EP training for the Unit, including setting up and managing a training spreadsheet to identify persons trained and any shortfalls in training. This includes identifying training providers and seeking funding from Unit for HS & EP Training both within the Unit and with External providers. A component of this responsibility requires the incumbent to facilitate the New Joiners questionnaire and maintain a spreadsheet of new joiners. Further, the SHEFA will be required to manage the Unit HS & EP Share point site, encouraging all personnel to store records electronically to aid any loss of continuity and to become more environmentally friendly. 

In addition, the candidate will act as Incident manager which includes co-ordinating all Navy Safety Occurrence Reports (NSOR's) for the Unit and submitting them to Navy Command. A key element of this responsibility will require the SHEFA to provide advice on the completion and ensure incidents are recorded on the Unit Incident Logs and well as providing advice on the process for personal injury claims against the MOD where necessary. 

Where required, the candidate will organise, act as secretary and provide professional advice for the Unit’s HS & EP Committee Meeting. 

Person specification

This is an outstanding opportunity offered within 43 Cdo FPGRM, which will provide a varied, rewarding and exciting working experience. Do you have the passion to improve the Health and Safety? We are looking for someone who is committed and dedicated to improving the health and safety and working experience of our Royal Marines and the MOD Civil Servants who support their operations. Are you a pro-active, hard-working individual? One who is motivated to play an engaging, interesting and critical part in our support to Navy Command’s role to generate and operate forces for today and to ensure we are ready for tomorrow by developing and delivering the Navy of the future.  

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 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.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone.

Your application must be completed by 23:55 on the closing date of the vacancy. Late submissions cannot be accepted. 

• Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include: job history, previous skills, experience and qualification details. 
• Candidates will be required to complete a Statement of Suitability providing experience relevant to the role, no more than 500 words.  

This vacancy assesses suitability through Success Profiles, the recruitment framework used within the Civil Service. Each element will be scored accordingly.  

At Sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Seeing the Big Picture

 At Interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

If there is a large number of applications, you will only be assessed against the lead behaviour (Seeing the Big Picture). 

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

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

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.