Health and Safety Co-Ordinator (Estates, Fire & Digital)

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The opportunity

An exciting opportunity to further your Health and Safety expertise within a dynamic workplace that is undergoing rapid change as we support the University’s renewed ambitions to improve the student experience and make creative learning safer and more accessible.

As a Health and Safety Coordinator, you will work collaboratively with staff across the University to champion and support safety. Specifically, this will entail:

• Assisting with the administration, monitoring, and carrying out of fire risk assessments, Estates’ risk assessments, safe systems of work.
• Assisting the Health and Safety (Estates, Fire & Digital) team carry out audits and inspections across the estate and help with the reporting and dissemination of reports on findings.
• Monitoring Fire Safety and Estate incident logs.
• Supporting, advising, and helping with the delivery of training and toolbox talks to key stakeholders in fire safety and estates safety compliance.
• Supporting the development of Health and Safety management procedures within Estates and Digital teams.

About you

Our staff come from a diverse range of professional backgrounds both within Higher Education and further afield. We value the diverse experiences they bring with them. If you are a keen enthusiast for safety and excited about the challenge of making safety happen, we want to hear from you.

Skills and personal characteristics needed to be a Health and Safety Coordinator include:

• Affiable, friendly, and approachable demeanour
• Willingness to be hands-on with staff and students
• Able to inform others and explain safety policies and procedures
• Ability to carry out job role duties within capabilities and competence
• Capable of working in a team but also use using your own initiative

You’ll also need:

• Brilliant communication skills, including listening and excellent writing
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and be tech savvy
• Good time and organisation skills
• Excellent observational skills
• Ability to be professional and maintain confidentiality

This will be a competency based interview (STAR) and all candidates need to explain their skills and knowledge against the person specification and job description.

Previous applicants need not apply.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Zele Akhilele, Resourcing Adviser via email at Peoplestaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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