Health and Safety Co-Ordinator

Are you looking for a fantastic opportunity to develop and enhance your skills and expertise in the field of health and safety within an educational setting? Do you want to work where Health & Safety is taken seriously? Do you have an interest in special educational needs? Would you like 12 weeks holiday per year? If so becoming the Health & Safety Co-ordinator at this SEN School will give you the opportunity to work within the wider school team to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of our pupils, staff and visitors and to have a significant impact on the day to day running of the school to promote excellent opportunities for our pupils to learn, grow and achieve together.

This specialist SEN school is a large primary special school in the London Borough of Redbridge (outer London). The pupils are aged 3-11 with a range of complex needs including autism, social communication difficulties, downs syndrome and other learning difficulties. The School was graded as 'outstanding' by Ofsted in November 2018. Their pupils are amazing and work very hard to achieve small and big steps of progress over time. They are supported by a dedicated staff team both within the classroom and those working in support roles

Although their staff are amazing and have developed an environment of great opportunities and some fantastic practices in working with our pupils, they do not sit back. They are continually striving to further develop the environment and learning opportunities we provide for our pupils.

Job Description

Post Held: Health and Safety Co-Ordinator F.T.E. 36 hours x 44.26 weeks p.a. (8am-4pm Mon- Thurs & 8.30-3pm Friday)

Post holder: Salary Scale: LBR6

Appointment Date: TBC

Reports to: The School Business Leader

Responsible for: Leading and developing the provision of a safe, secure and clean working environment to ensure the safety of staff, pupils and visitors and to support effective teaching and learning at Hatton School and Satellite provisions.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Oversee and review risk and COSHH assessments carried out by members of staff throughout the school, providing constructive feedback, as required.

Conduct risk assessments of strategic or school-wide safety issues.

Support senior staff with writing risk assessment for staff members.

Work alongside the School Business Leader to implement and manage an approved contractor list and liaise with contractors to ensure the delivery of a planned preventative maintenance programme as well as reactive work to ensure the standard of the premises is maintained.

Ensure that contractors work safely on site so as not to affect the safety and wellbeing of the students or staff.

Carry out regular, documented site inspections.

Manage and maintain compliance-related policies and procedures and check to ensure that they are being implemented.

Keep records of the findings of all maintenance and service inspections and generate a record of required improvements and actions taken.

Implement and manage a compliance training matrix and organise training as required and co-ordinate basic Health and Safety training for new staff.

Record incidents and accidents and produce statistics and conduct accident investigations, as required.

Do not forget TLTP's Refer and Earn scheme. For every person you recommend that we place and meets our terms and conditions you will receive a referral bonus of £130 (subject to statutory deductions).

TLTP Group is an Equal Opportunities employer. Subject to observance of all UK and EU current legislation we shall not discriminate to exclude individuals on the grounds of age, race, colour, gender (birth or reassigned), sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, marital status, ethnic or national origin, health, pregnancy, childcare responsibilities or criminal records. Candidates from such groups are actively encouraged to apply.