We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive. We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We’ll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.

What you’ll be doing

We are looking for a Corporate Health and Safety business Partner to cultivate a positive and progressive safety culture at CHP. This involves planning, delivering, monitoring, and reviewing safety measures while addressing compliance issues. Your responsibility extends to ensuring employees and contractors comply with health and safety regulations, and you serve as the primary resource in areas like CDM or Building Safety Assurance. Your role is pivotal in upholding and promoting health and safety standards across the organization.

• Proactively ensure appropriate and technical H&S support, advice and guidance is provided relating to health and safety legislation and best practice.
• Manage continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring that there is full alignment with the Corporate Health and Safety team’s strategy and input into strategic reviews from a technical, commercial and cost perspective.
• Undertake thorough investigation and prompt reporting, including to the HSE, on all relevant incidents and events to identify causes, support employees, ensure appropriate follow-up action is taken and determine how processes can be improved for the future.
• Inspect and evaluate workplace environments within scope of your responsibility, to ensure these are compliant with government regulations and safety standards. Take appropriate corrective actions where compliance is not demonstrated and ordering the suspension of activities that pose H&S threats to employees or workers.
• Partner effectively with teams within your area of responsibility, eg, working closely with the Building Safety, Construction and Trades teams to ensure optimum safety across the main compliance areas (gas, water hygiene, electricity, fire, asbestos, lifts, and other mechanical).