Health, Safety & Environment Coordinator
About the role
This new role sits within facilities, part of the Campus Services Department at the University of Bath, delivering a wide range of services to staff and students ranging from Cleaning & Porterage, Landscaping and Mail and internal support services such as Sustainability, Health and Safety and more.
Reporting to the Waste, Recycling & Environment Manager, the post holder will support the wider Campus Services department by providing advice and guidance on managing provision of risk assessment, implementing a Health and Safety Management System (HSMS) and reducing utilities usage through student engagement. Demonstrating a commitment to health and safety and environmental legislation, and relevant Codes of Practice. Communicating and driving H&S and environmental awareness.
To ensure compliance with University policies and to work in collaboration with the University Safety, Health and Employee Wellbeing Dept. (SHEW) to promote a positive Health and Safety culture and be proactive in addressing Health and Safety matters and follow-up on actions within their area of responsibility.
You should have the ability to communicate effectively, collaborate and co-ordinate within a team and ensure consistency of communications and standards.
You should be able to build effective professional relationships with colleagues at all levels of the business, present information to help guide key decisions with particular experience of using MS Offices packages, with some practical people and small project management experience and flexible in their approach.
What we can offer you:
We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.
Further details:
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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.