Job Description

Director of Safety

National role with regular travel and hybrid working

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Circa \xc2\xa3120,000 per annum (negotiable based on experience), plus car allowance of \xc2\xa35484 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Make your mark, shaping this exciting new role of Director of Safety at Home Group. We are looking for an incredible safety leader who can super charge performance and lead our strategic approach to asset safety, statutory compliance and corporate health and safety across our national property assets and operations.

As Duty Holder and Principle Accountable Person, you\xe2\x80\x99ll drive a culture of safety and compliance that enables our strategy and customer promise, driving performance against statutory, regulatory and legal requirements. You\xe2\x80\x99ll lead our teams in ensuring that our buildings are well maintained, we provide a safe place to live for our customers and we keep our colleagues safe.

Key priorities as Director of Safety

• Providing strong, clear and expert safety leadership promoting a culture of performance, transparency and excellence - casting a positive shadow.
• As a key member of our senior leadership team, influencing and supporting the development of safe environments for colleagues to operate competently in and for customers to be cared for within a regulated setting.
• Developing a robust safety strategy and compliance plan, guiding our Board, Executive and Senior Management teams on the direction and strategy for safety with clear recommendations and business plans in place.
• Leading and motivating supercharged teams to deliver on key objectives for our building safety programme, statutory compliance programme and health and safety safe working practices with a laser sharp focus.
• Building strong networks internally, and externally to maximise and leverage relationships to deliver on strategic outcomes.
• Leading building risk assessments, safety case reports and registrations with our regulators.
• Ensuring a well governed function with transparent, objective and dynamic decision making, along with robust reporting and evaluation.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll do that here, working in the top ten Greatest Places to Work in the UK!

You bring

• CIOB Level 6 Diploma in Building Safety Management or equivalent, with expertise gained through significant experience.
• Relevant degree and/or professional health, safety and fire qualification such as NEBOSH, NCRQ with extensive knowledge of legislative, regulatory and governance requirements across asset management and corporate health and safety.
• Extensive experience of leading landlord and employer statutory and regulatory compliance. You have embedded safety strategies across a complex multi-site organisation achieving challenging business plan targets and KPI\'s.
• Experience of working in a person centre regulatory environment (such as CQC registered services).
• Outstanding leadership skills and strategic thinker, able to engage, influence and transform to drive safety compliance and lead significant change.
• Excellent people manager, able to inspire, influence and embed a motivating performance culture.
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll bring creative spark, be a great influencer, able to unleash the potential of others and know how the world works and our place in it.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be part of our senior leadership team who are a really great bunch of supportive peers, you\xe2\x80\x99ll meet with them regularly to drive strategy and also ensure we have a collaborative and collegiate approach in leading our teams.

Job details

• Full time, 37.5 hpw, flexible working hours (we\xe2\x80\x99re open to agreeing a work pattern with you). If you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we\xe2\x80\x99re ok with that too!
• Hybrid working (based from any of our national offices) with regular travel including to the North-East where our new, state of the art, Head Office is based and also working from home.
• A full current driving licence as you\xe2\x80\x99ll work and travel on a national basis and will be provided with a car allowance as part of your remuneration package to do that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What\xe2\x80\x99s in it for you

• 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) increasing to 38, the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from \xc2\xa31140 per annum. We\xe2\x80\x99ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We\xe2\x80\x99re an Investors in People Platinum employer, a Great Place to Work, 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing and 1^st best workplaces for women!\xe2\x80\x9d
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you\xe2\x80\x99re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. Explore our full range of benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Director of Safety job description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don\xe2\x80\x99t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there\xe2\x80\x99s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

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