Senior Health Safety and Wellbeing Co-ordinator

Health Safety and Wellbeing services are seeking 1.6 FTE dynamic and forward thinking individuals to work with the occupational health and health and safety team. In this new "hybrid" split role 60% of your time will be working alongside the occupational health team and 40% with the health and safety team.

You will be required to undertake work remotely within schools supporting risk assessment, risk analysis and review of safety based process. You will also be required to work alongside the Occupational health team in the delivery of statutory health medicals. 

Ideally we are looking for an individual who already holds the Nebosh general certificate however, for the right candidate we are willing to provide full on the job training.

Development of skills and knowledge are key for this role and Cornwall Council will fully support formal accreditation and training in all aspects of the Health role.

Consideration will be given to individuals seeking Full time, part time or job share working basis. 

Applicants should have good customer service skills, can do attitude and look forward to trying new things and varied workloads. In return the council offers competitive rates of pay, generous annual leave and flexi leave time policy as well flexible working from home and work locations.

Whilst the location/work-base for this role may have been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g., from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

For more information or to discuss the role contact Occupational health and wellbeing: occupationalhealthandwellbeing@cornwall.gov.uk / 01872 323138

How To Apply

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Your application will need to demonstrate how you meet the required criteria on the role profile marked ‘application form’. Please view the role profile here. Please ensure you answer all of the pre-screening questions in full, within the application form. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process

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