Health Safety Environmental (HSE) Business Partner

Job Title: Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) Business PartnerContract Type: Permanent Salary: £49,699.82 (£54,763.04 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role)Working Hours: 35 hours per weekWorking Pattern: Monday to FridayLocation: Speke, Liverpool / HybridIf you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description. Please note that whilst we will accept applications based on any form of valid legal permission to work in the UK, we will be surrendering the Riverside Sponsorship licence, so for the avoidance of doubt, we are unable to apply for any further sponsorships whether on behalf of existing colleagues or candidatesThe difference you will make as Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) Business Partner In this role you will 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.About you We are looking for someone with these skills:

• Demonstrable experience in HSE assurance within a large, dispersed organisation.
• Demonstrable experience conducting excellent quality investigations and implementing control measures.

Why Riverside? At Riverside, we're a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we've been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives. We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.Working with us, you'll enjoy:

• Competitive pay & generous pension
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits
• Development opportunities for the right candidate

Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside: We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues. This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview. Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.Role Profile

• 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.
• Provide strategic oversight in HSE governance, audit and assurance, ensuring robust frameworks are embedded and consistently applied to safeguard compliance, drive continuous improvement and uphold the highest standards across the group.
• 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.
• Ensure all parts of the Group follow the Safety-First philosophy and adopt the Riverside safety operating model of Accountable Risk Leads (ARLs).
• Support Accountable Risk Leads in delivering against their risk framework.
• Support the delivery of assurance and audit frameworks both internally and externally to ensure that our HSE management system meets the highest standards.
• 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.
• Deliver assurance reviews that confirm compliance with Group standards and regulatory requirements.
• Support the group in meeting its Legal obligations and that Group policies and procedures are known and adhered to.
• 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 Assessments are in place to protect our colleagues and customers.
• 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.

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