Health & Safety Advisor

Location: Home-based with some travel across the South East, South West, and South Coast
Contract: Permanent | Full-time
Salary: £42,500–£45,000, plus £5,800 car allowance

Please note that candidates who do not currently hold a NEBOSH Health and Safety Management for Construction Certificate, or an equivalent qualification, will start on a salary of £42,500 and will be required to complete the qualification while working at Anchor. Once achieved, their salary will increase to £45,000.

Help create safer homes and workplaces across Anchor.

We’re looking for a Health and Safety Advisor to provide practical, proactive support to our Housing teams across the South Coast.

Working closely with operational managers, Property and Assets colleagues and the wider Corporate Health and Safety team, you’ll help colleagues manage risks, understand their responsibilities and ensure effective controls are in place.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing practical health and safety advice to Location Managers and operational teams.
• Completing planned and risk-based assurance visits.
• Supporting risk assessments, safe systems of work and local health and safety arrangements.
• Investigating accidents and incidents, including RIDDOR-reportable incidents.
• Delivering health and safety training and awareness activities where required.
• Supporting the implementation and assurance of CDM and construction safety requirements.
• Identifying emerging risks, recurring issues and opportunities for improvement.

What you’ll bring

• Experience providing health and safety advice within a complex operational environment.
• A NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent qualification.
• Relevant CDM training or qualifications, or a willingness to work towards these.
• Experience of inspections, assurance visits, risk assessments and incident investigations.
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• The confidence to challenge unsafe practices constructively.
• A full UK driving licence and the ability to travel regularly across the region.

Experience within social housing, supported housing or care would be beneficial, alongside knowledge of HSG65, L153 and ISO 45001.

Why join Anchor?

You’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact across our Housing services, helping colleagues strengthen health and safety arrangements and create safer environments for residents, colleagues and visitors.

Apply now and help us create safer homes and workplaces across Anchor.

We may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position, so candidates must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.