About the job

Job summary

Working within the Total Safety Centre in a small team of safety professionals you will be the single SQEP individual that influences all aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) management on a small but very busy RAF Station Reporting to the commanding officer you will be responsible for HSE ensuring compliance with legislation and MoD policy

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. 

Job description

This is a digital post that carries essential duties to ensure that legal compliance, MOD policy and best practice is achieved. The Stn Safety, Health and Environmental Advisor (SHEA) is responsible for providing advice and assistance to the commanding officer, their executives and line management in conjunction with specialist advisors, in all aspects of safety, health and environmental. You will be the focal point for any visits by enforcement agencies including the Health & Safety Executive, Environment agency or local authority. The SHEA assumes responsibility as the 4C’s duty holder, and Stn hearing conservation officer. Your role will include the maintenance and updating of the Stn Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) manual, Stn risk register (PARMIS) SHE management plans, preparation for command audits and of progress against the resultant action plans. You will organise and carry out SHE audits of all workplaces for which the CO is responsible and investigate all health and safety issues that have been brought to your attention. You will promote and ensure a high level of awareness’s of SHE and adherence to SHE policy across the Stn ensuring the completion of comprehensive risk assessments and reliable reporting of accidents and near misses. You will be responsible for accident reporting through FSIMS to Air Command, HSE and collating information required for personal injury claims. You will be required to work closely with the works organisation (regional prime contractor and OC Infra) with respect to siting boards, new projects and Stn business partners on cross boundary SHE matters. You will be required to lead the SHE team consisting of Band D Deputy SHEA/Environmental Protection Advisor and E2 admin assistant.

Person specification

This person must be highly motivated towards Health and safety and environmental protection. This person will have NEBOSH General Certificate and at least 3 years’ experience in a similar role. This person must be able to communicate to a wide range of stakeholders to effectively deliver their responsibilities

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.

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Selection process details

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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.  

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability. (Word count: 250)  

Interviews for this vacancy will take place on a date and time to be confirmed at RAF Wittering

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

At sift and interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

• Making Effective Decisions 
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership 
• Working Together 
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service

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.