Join our team as a Health & Safety Officer!

At Cairn Housing Association, we’re passionate about creating great homes, delivering great services, and offering great opportunities for our people.

Cairn is currently recruiting for Health & Safety Officer and Compliance Officer roles as part of our strong commitment to Health and Safety legal compliance and the safety of our staff and tenants across the Association. These are varied and fast-paced roles and ideal for someone who enjoys being visible and influencing a positive, proactive, safety culture.

Health and Safety Officer

Reporting to the Health and Safety (H&S) Manager, this role will be responsible for leading on H&S initiatives across Cairn. This will include our corporate H&S strategy, including policy and procedure development, risk management, carrying out H&S audits, incident reviews, training, project work and administration. The role will work with internal and external stakeholders in a collaborative approach to develop safe systems of work and processes based on legislation and best practice.

Requirements – What We’re Looking For:

• NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent as a minimum and preferably NEBOSH Diploma or willing to achieve this level
• IOSH membership at professional grades or willing to achieve this level
• Comprehensive knowledge of H&S law and legislation
• Extensive knowledge and experience of working at Officer level in a H&S service within an equivalent sized employer
• Experience of a broad range of H&S areas relevant to the role, including risk assessments and high-risk areas such as the ‘big 7’ and other relevant risk areas for a Registered Social Landlord
• Demonstratable project management skills
• Ability to support our staff across a Scotland wide operation
• IT Literate in the use of IT programs and health and safety systems and proficient in Microsoft Office

We value diversity and warmly welcome applications from all communities. Cairn is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

At Cairn Housing Association, we’re passionate about creating great homes, delivering great services, and offering great opportunities for our people.

Cairn is currently recruiting for Health & Safety Officer and Compliance Officer roles as part of our strong commitment to Health and Safety legal compliance and the safety of our staff and tenants across the Association. These are varied and fast-paced roles and ideal for someone who enjoys being visible and influencing a positive, proactive safety culture.

Reporting to the Compliance Manager this role will be responsible the planning and delivery of the Landlord Compliance activities through the management and administration of planned servicing activities, as well as responsibility for resolution any areas of non-compliance.

This includes liaison with colleagues in Maintenance, Investment and Health and Safety to advise on satisfactory solutions and ensure requirements are met. Officers will coordinate and monitor performance of service providers through a combination of external contracts or internal SLAs.

Key Responsibilities – What You’ll Do:

Specification & Procurement

• Lead on the development and specifications of compliance activities
• Undertake procurement exercises in line with regulatory requirements, procuring contracts and services to meet Cairn’s requirements

Data

• Ensure that the Group’s compliance data records are maintained as accurate, accessible and up to date
• Verify all necessary certification and evidence captured and retained in order to demonstrate compliance at all times

Policies & Procedures

• Assist the Leadership Team in the periodic review, amendment and implementation of policies and procedures as required
• Uphold a consistently high standard of service delivery and ensure compliance of statutory regulations, legal requirements and relevant codes of practice, guidance and good practice are achieved.

Contractor Management

• Ensure that Health and Safety legislation, guidance and good practice are strictly adhered to
• Manage and oversee the delivery of external contracts in the role of client project manager
• Perform inspection, instruction and supervision of planned maintenance works
• Lead on project progress reporting for planned compliance projects
• Review, monitor and report on contractor and consultant service delivery and performance
• Ensure all appropriate policies and procedures are consistently applied and implemented to specifications
• Drive compliance to demonstrate the quality of works comply with industry standards, statutory regulations, guidance, good practice and Cairn HA standards

Budget Management

• Monitor budgets for Compliance activities in conjunction with the Compliance Manager
• Exercise financial control in line with delegated authority levels

Line Management

• Provide support and guidance to Assistants in delivery of compliance activities
• Monitor and oversee performance in line with Cairn performance reviews, training requirements and target setting

Strategic Planning

• Produce reports to Compliance Manager to inform the strategic compliance and asset management planning process
• Participate in the specification and proposal of programmes of work to deliver compliance activities

Requirements – What We’re Looking For:

• Relevant building or construction related qualification to HND level
• Comprehensive knowledge of H&S law and legislation
• Demonstratable project management skills
• Knowledge of the Scottish Housing Regulator’s Performance Standards
• IT Literate in the use of housing management/CRM systems and proficient in Microsoft Office