Health & Safety Advisor

The ACC Liverpool Group operates the city's waterfront event campus – the interconnected M&S Bank Arena, ACC Liverpool and Exhibition Centre Liverpool - as well as ticketing agency Ticket Quarter and the Pullman Liverpool Hotel. 

Playing a leading role in shining a spotlight on Liverpool, we have successfully staged a wide array of national and international events, including the Eurovision Song Contest last year and in 2024, we will host Labour Party Conference in addition to a packed programme of entertainment and business events.

Company Benefits

We are an award winning, world class events campus and our people are at the heart of everything that we do. Recognition and reward is of huge importance to us at the ACC Liverpool Group, and just some of the benefits staff can enjoy include:

- An enhanced holiday scheme, starting with 24 days plus bank holidays, which increases with length of service to 27 days plus bank holidays

- An excellent local government pension scheme, where by employer contribution is currently set at 14.1%

- Access to a premium health care policy, which includes an employee assistant line, contributions towards a wide range of medical costs, such as dental and optical and staff discounts.

- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes

- An excellent occupational sick pay scheme

- Free onsite parking right in the heart of the city centre

- Employee Reward Platform

- Agile working and flexi time policies, where appropriate and in line with business needs

- A dedicated wellbeing strategy to support staff when at work

- 30 Qualified Mental Health First Aiders on site

The ACC Liverpool Group is a place where you can truly make a difference.

Some of the wonderful things ACC Liverpool Group have achieved / continue to work towards:

- Disability Confident Employer

- Member of the Fair Employment Charter

- Real Living Wage employer

- Social value impact plan – to maximise our positive impact on the local area and beyond

- Green Meeting’s Gold Standard

- Sustainability Strategy

- Positively influencing biodiversity – we have 3 beehives on our campus grounds

- Carbon Neutral Campus

- Accessibility Strategy

- AccessAble Guide

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health & Safety Advisor, (for clarity, internally this position will be known as Health, Safety, and Quality Assurance Business Partner), on a permanent full-time basis, reporting into the Head of Health, Safety, Risk, and Compliance.

The successful candidate will play a starring role in continually improving our health and safety management system, as well as helping us shape and deliver our quality management framework (QMF), working across our stunning waterfront events campus.

This role will enable us to safely deliver high quality events and services across our waterfront campus and beyond, therefore positive and energetic enthusiasm about health, safety, and quality management practices is essential, helping to inspire and guide our people to a safer tomorrow.

In this role the successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating both our Business Improvement Process and Master Audit Schedule, therefore must have experience of working either, in an integrated management system or working within ISO’s 9001, 14001, or 45001. The successful candidate will also be responsible for leading our company-wide document control process, in line with our QMF and in association with our Head of Production and IT, ensuring accurate and controlled documents are stored on the intranet.

The successful candidate will partner with all our colleagues including line managers and heads of department in the provision of communicating, embedding and continually improving our health and safety management system. They will also take the lead on some more significant incident/ close call investigations and monitoring reports made via a cloud-based reporting tool.

This role is integral to embedding our safety culture and is a key player in our growing Health, Safety, Risk, and Compliance Department. They will help raise the profile of quality, health and safety management and work in partnership with all our colleagues and departments to help the business continually improve.

There is a hybrid working policy but will be required to be onsite when needed for operational purposes.

The successful candidate must have:

- Experience of working in Occupational Health and Safety and providing H&S advice and support to dynamic businesses

- A Level 3 qualification in Occupational Health and Safety (e.g. NEBOSH National General Certificate/ IOSH Level 3 Certificate in OSH Principles and Practice etc.)

- Membership of IOSH (TechIOSH) and/or IIRSM (AIIRSM) with a good evidence log of CPD

- A Level 3 qualification in Internal Auditing/ Inspection or similar internal auditor certification for ISO9001 or ISO45001

- Experience of working in an organisation with an integrated management system/ 9001,14001,45001 accreditation/s

- Experience in using Microsoft365 including SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel

- Passion for quality, health and safety management

Ideally the successful candidate would also:

- Have experience of assisting with the development of H&S policies and arrangements

- Have experience in corporate/ enterprise risk management

- Have worked in stadiums, arenas, attractions or hospitality in a safety/ operational management role

- Have experience of implementing data protection/ GDPR regulations

If you have drive, passion, ambition and wish to play a part in The ACC Liverpool Group’s continuing success story, this could be just the job for you.

Please note, we may close this vacancy before the stated closing date if we receive sufficient applications for the position.

Therefore, if you are interested in this position, please submit your application form as soon as possible.

To apply for this position please click on the APPLY HERE link below:

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Closing Date: 21 October 2024

Interview Date: TBC

For further information, assistance , please contact the People Team on 0151 239 6084 or email recruitment@accliverpool.com.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

The ACC Liverpool Group know the value of having a diverse and representative team across our organisation. We promote equal opportunities and are committed to having an inclusive work force where everybody feels respected, are treated fairly and diversity is celebrated. As such we strongly encourage and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from all members of the community regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion, belief or sexual orientation.