Health and Safety Coordinator

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!

Our core value of ‘Love Work, Love Life, Be You’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow.

We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026.

 What are we all about?

At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit’s to Construction, and many more.

We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more.

About you:

As a talented and professional health and safety leader, you have a passion for driving compliance and safety. As well as having excellent communication, presentation and helping to shape environments that make people smile.

Day-to-day, you will:

• To lead on all initial H&S matters by providing current advice, which reflects our culture and balances your H&S expertise and a common-sense approach to create great outcomes.
• Provide internal advice to employee’s and offer assurance that risk is considered and actively managed.
• Be responsible for H&S compliance and work with our Facilities Team to deliver a consistent H&S approach across our offices.
• Be the escalation point for all H&S matters and provide guidance on complex cases.
• Uplift and maintain compliance on all areas of H&S, including: Risk Assessments, Contractor Assessments, Risk registers and Compliance in line with ISO standards.
• Review regularly and advise on changes to H&S best practices, laws and regulation.
• Be part of the H&S committee and drive through safe working practices in a working group and be responsible for action register.
• Liaise with third party contractors to resolve H&S occurrences or corrective works.
• Take ownership of First Aiders, Fire Marshals processes and ensure regular review the lists marshals and aiders and ensure correct numbers are in place.
• During fitouts, dilapidation or general office improvements to provide advice and mitigation on the risks associated with works.

Your skills and experiences might also include:

• Experience In HSE and Environmental management within office environments (preferably in the Technology Sector)
• Relevant qualifications in H&S such as NEBOSH Diploma or IOSH
• You are curious and want to make positive change that improves the quality of the office experience.
• Strong knowledge of relevant ISO standards so that we are and remain compliant within the standards and to drive improvement planning along with the Facilities Team.
• Experience and confidence in working with European legislation and to assist in the delivery of H&S and Environmental improvements - desirable.
• Experience working across a large portfolio in a fast-growing business.
• You embrace change mindset and a can-do approach.
• Experience working with senior business leaders across multiple locations.
• Reporting on audits, office conditions, risk and creating playbooks to deliver an all-round H&S experience is essential.
• Raise awareness to leadership on necessary and impactful improvements.
• Able to work on your own initiative to deliver and manage multiple key projects across a large portfolio.
• The ability to stay calm under pressure to deliver on projects and overall driving a great experience for our employees and customers.
• Experience working in fast paced environments, you have the ability and confidence to lead via your own experiences and competency.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft products and an ability to adapt to essential technology so we can digitalise and grow towards a leaner future.
• You’re a team player who is resourceful, meticulous and able to multitask. You don’t shy away from rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.
• A full driving licence and ability to travel is essential.
• Fun-loving team player – it’s at the heart of our culture!

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.

On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.  

At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t match perfectly, we’d still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for.

We love the fact that we’re all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it’s just more fun!

What’s holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.