Health and Safety Officer

Health and Safety Officer

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cardiff, UK

Reporting To: Health and Safety Team Leader

Description

Creating Safer Workplaces for Everyone.

At SafeWorkforce, we’re passionate about keeping people safe. Our team of health and safety consultants brings over 200 years of combined experience, providing expert guidance that helps businesses stay compliant, confident, and protected.

We don’t do one-size-fits-all solutions — every project is tailored to the unique needs of the organisation. Whether it’s a small business or a large enterprise, you’ll have the chance to make a real impact, helping leaders minimise risk and build safer workplaces.

If you’re looking for a role where your expertise matters, your ideas are valued, and every day presents new challenges, SafeWorkforce is the place to grow your career and make a difference.

We’re looking for a Health & Safety Officer to join our team! Reporting to the Health and Safety Team Leader, you’ll take the lead in supporting a diverse portfolio of clients across various industries. This is a hybrid role, with a mix of office-based work and the flexibility to work from home. You’ll be focused on delivering remote health & safety support to clients who use our digital support packages—helping them stay safe, compliant, and confident in their day-to-day operations.

What that means day to day

• Provide digital H&S Consultancy support such as SSIP application support, creation of policies and RAMS, Accident investigations, tender document guidance, COSHH creation & general H&S advice by phone, email, and digital call channels such as Teams and Skype.
• Act as the first point of contact for a portfolio of dedicated clients.
• Ability to Demo and educate customers on the Safeworkforce software offering
• Participate and support business improvement by participating in technical input to proposals / quotations, development plans and service improvements

What you’ll need to be successful

The successful candidate would be able to demonstrate proficiency in delivery of technical services and familiarity with legislation and best practices. You will need to have a NEBOSH General Certificate

What you'll get in return

We have a

hybrid workplace policy,

where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:

Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits

> 🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave

> 🌴Generous annual leave

> 🏥 Healthcare Plan

> 💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community

> 🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme

Future Planning

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💰

Pension scheme with employer contributions

> 🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary

> 💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback

> 🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development

Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?

Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!

Bring Your Whole Self to Work.

We are proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.

What you can expect if you apply:

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of: An initial discovery call with the recruiterA first stage interview via Microsoft TeamsAdditional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role
• An initial discovery call with the recruiter
• A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
• Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.