Health & Safety Lead

Job description

About

A national role with the opportunity to shape health and safety across Cornerstone.

We have a great opportunity for an experienced health and safety professional, this is a brand new role with the opportunity to influence practice at a national level.

Working with colleagues across our organisation you'll strengthen governance, improve consistency and develop practical approaches to managing risk.

About the role

At Cornerstone, our purpose is to enable the people we support to live valued lives in their communities.

As our Health and Safety Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring our approach to health and safety supports this purpose while meeting our legal and regulatory responsibilities.

You'll be Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, helping colleagues understand legal requirements, manage risk effectively and embed a positive, proportionate safety culture.

This is a broad and influential role, combining strategic oversight with practical support. You'll help shape and continuously improve Cornerstone’s health and safety framework, providing assurance that our policies, systems and practices are effective, proportionate and compliant.

You'll help translate legislation and good practice into approaches that work in the context of our services and play an important role in using data, audit findings and incident learning to identify risks and drive meaningful improvement.

Key responsibilities

Act as Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, providing expert advice and guidance across the organisation.

Maintain and continuously improve health and safety policies, systems, procedures and guidance.

Develop and deliver audit, inspection and assurance programmes, identifying areas for improvement.

Provide practical advice on risk assessments, safe systems of work and legal compliance.

Analyse health and safety performance data and produce clear reports, trends and recommendations.

Support incident investigations, root cause analysis and organisational learning.

Work with managers to implement effective, proportionate and sustainable health and safety practices.

Support engagement with regulators, inspectors, insurers and professional advisers.

Contribute to the development and delivery of health and safety training and capability-building programmes.

Why Cornerstone

Our values, Caring, Person-Centred, Professional and Pioneering underpin how we work and the services we provide.

This role provides you with an opportunity to influence health and safety practice across a national organisation, strengthen our approach to risk and assurance, and support the delivery of safe, high-quality services across Scotland.

So, if you are an experienced health and safety professional looking for a role where you can use your expertise to influence practice across a large organisation, we would like to hear from you. Apply now!

Applications will be reviewed and interviews may be arranged throughout the advertising period. We reserve the right to appoint a suitable candidate before the advertised closing date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Level 2 Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.

Please note - If you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany. Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre-employment checks.