Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) Business Partner

Overview

Champion HSE across the group, managing risks, investigations and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• risk assessments
• incident reporting
• safety audits
• hse reporting
• iso accreditation
• saw-it

Tasks

-Be the HSE support to colleagues at all levels in the assigned risk area to ensure they operate safely and understand their personal responsibility for themselves and their direct reports. -Oversee the use of Personal Safety devices and SAW-IT across assigned risk areas, alongside other key HSE KPIs, providing assurance, driving performance, and enabling continuous improvement. -The role will report directly to the HSE Lead and will work across the designated risk area to develop and assist in the implementation and governance of all HSE strategies, plans, policies, procedures, guidance, KPIs, reports, records, and actions. -Support sponsors, ARLs, the Executive Team, and leaders to excel in HSE. -Build effective relationships with colleagues at all levels ensuring they understand how to escalate issues and concerns or ask for support. -Regularly monitor the groups online accident book (SAW-IT system) and ensure business areas understand how to use it and adhere to the groups incident reporting policy. Ensure major incidents are escalated to the HSE Lead immediately and lead the oversight and response to major HSE incidents across the Group, ensuring robust investigations are conducted to identify root causes and drive continuous improvement. -Ensure risks are clearly identified and understood across assigned areas through risk assessments and registers, with effective controls in place across our key risk areas, and performance transparently reported through to the Safety-First Group and ARL Panels. -Deliver assurance reviews that confirm compliance with Group standards and regulatory requirements. -Produce HSE reports as requested by HSE Lead. -Support achieving and maintaining ISO accreditations across all parts of the Group (including subsidiaries). -Support the delivery of assurance and audit frameworks both internally and externally to ensure that our HSE management system meets the highest standards. -Drive our Safety-First Culture across all parts of the Group, ensuring the safety of our Customers, our People, and our Homes are prioritized at every operational level, driving our golden thread of HSE through consistent behaviors, standards, and leadership. -Support assigned areas to embed environmental, sustainability, and health & safety requirements in line with ISO standards, ensuring that risks are effectively identified, managed, and monitored. -Provide ARLs with targeted HSE performance data to drive improvements, enable scrutiny, and hold risk owners to account, ensuring safety plans are in place and delivering impact -Ensure that risk areas are audited as part of 3 rd line of defence for H&S. -Ensure all parts of the Group follow the Safety-First philosophy and adopt the Riverside safety operating model of Accountable Risk Leads (ARLs). -Produce Directorate HSE improvement plans / safety improvement plans, to continuously improve HSE across the Group. -Represent Riverside’s interests and proactively engage with customer and external stakeholders. -Support the group in meeting its Legal obligations and that Group policies and procedures are known and adhered to. -Ensure that Risk Assessments are in place to protect our colleagues and customers. -Support Accountable Risk Leads in delivering against their risk framework. -Champion Health, Safety, and Environment across the Group, ensuring HSE risks are effectively managed to protect our People, our Customers, and our Homes. This role plays a critical part in delivering safety within a strategic risk area, supporting the Group’s ambition to create safe, sustainable environments for colleagues and customers, while safeguarding the places our customers live in and promoting responsible, sustainable practices. -Proactively support ARLs in delivering their responsibility for their assigned risk area, providing competent advice, and helping them to establish robust health and safety good practices. -Work closely with other HSE team members, MI and Data, Insurance and Business Continuity teams. -Support working groups associated with Health & Safety, such as Personal Safety and SAW-IT, contributing to the development and delivery of initiatives that strengthen our golden thread of HSE, ensuring consistent standards, shared learning, and continuous improvement across the Group -Conduct major accident and incident investigations, ensuring actions/ recommendations are implemented across assigned risk areas. -Attend meetings as requested by the Directorate, to give updates and advise on all HSE matters. -Ensure excellent service for all employees and customers when providing advice, support and lessons learnt.

Requirements

• iso45001
• iso14001
• iso14064
• lead auditing
• hse qualification
• risk assessment

What You Bring

-Excellent communication and influencing skills with a strong customer focus. -Major Incident Investigation Experience. -Evidence of continued professional development. -Membership of a relevant professional organization -Understanding the context of social housing (particularly TRG) and the challenges it faces. -Experience of successfully implementing ISO45001 and ISO14001. -Demonstrable experience conducting excellent quality investigations and implementing control measures. -Lead Auditing Qualification and Experience. -Experience of successfully implementing ISO14064. -Proven experience of influencing senior leaders to take ownership of HSE risks. -Level 5/6 HSE qualification. -Experience of conducting risk assessments -Experience HSE assurance within a large, dispersed organisation. -Have positive relationships with assigned Executive Directors and Directors, Risk Areas and ARLs, and fully understand their risks and operational challenges. -Knowledge of relevant legislation and government regulations pertaining to HSE in Housing. -Ability to use / analyse data to drive improvements. -Effective report writing and presentation skills. -Degree level or equivalent in a related discipline.

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Benefits

-28 days holidays plus bank holidays -Investment in your learning, personal development and technology -Flexible working options available -Competitive pay & generous pension

About Riverside

-Operates a diverse portfolio of residential properties across the UK, offering homes to people in need. -Specializes in social care, working to improve the lives of vulnerable people through tailored services. -Projects often focus on regeneration and community development, transforming neighborhoods into thriving areas. -Offers a range of services like homelessness prevention, mental health support, and youth services. -Manages a variety of housing types, from supported living facilities to independent homes, helping people achieve stability. -Known for its holistic approach, addressing not just housing needs, but also the broader social factors affecting well-being. -Committed to supporting those at risk of marginalization, from veterans to people with disabilities. -A key player in the UK housing and social services sector with a unique blend of housing expertise and social care.

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