Head of Health and Safety Manager
Crown Prosecution Service
Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 1st November 2024
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Job summary
CPS Chief Finance Officer Directorate is delighted to advertise the role of Head of Health and Safety Manager.
The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that this approval will be granted.
As part of this role you will be expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities and travel to other CPS offices when required.
Please note that the below are deemed essential experiences to be eligible to apply for this role:
- Experience of a similar role leading a Health & Safety team in a large organisation with multiple internal and external stakeholder
Please note that you must be able to meet the essential technical skills detailed below to be eligible to apply for this role:
- Minimum level 6 Health and Safety qualification
For further information on how to apply, please see the Candidate Pack at the bottom of this page.
Job description
As the CPS’ Subject Matter Expert on Health & Safety, the postholder will take day to day responsibility for the governance and delivery of Health and Safety in the CPS. Ensuring the business remains compliant to legislative changes and our policies and processes remain centred around the health and safety of our people, customers and partners at all times.
They will lead the health and safety team and wider health and safety community within the department, by providing direction, advice, guidance and support to all of the CPS including Areas, Business Centres and HQ Directorates on health and safety policy.
Person specification
- Lead the health and safety team and wider CPS health and safety community, on the development and implementation of a wide range of high profile health & safety policy issues, providing expert advice & support to the department on national products and issues including change & impact analysis.
- Demonstrate positive customer service by understanding the complexity and diversity of customer needs and expectations.
- Oversee, monitor and improve the risk assessment process for health and safety providing advice and challenge where necessary to the risk and assurance team and managers and wider business.
- Build and sustain commitment from business areas to support the department’s health and safety objectives. This will be in part be achieved by persuading and influencing both internal and external stakeholders across all areas of the business, exercising effective judgement to manage conflicting priorities in a very busy high profile area of the department’s business ensuring performance deadlines are met.
- Develop H&S capability across the organisation and make recommendations on the minimum training requirements for all staff, all managers and staff with specific H&S responsibilities (for example Area Health, Safety and Facilities Managers)
- Actively build and maintain a network of colleagues and contacts internally and externally to achieve progress on shared health and safety objectives. This will include liaising, collaborating and providing expert advice to HR colleagues who have responsibility for related health and safety matters – such as wellbeing, stress and sickness absence.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Developing Self and Others
Benefits
Join the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and have a future that matters: Find Your Purpose
CPS is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work and individuality is truly appreciated.
We want to ensure all our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes where possible, flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment, which means that where you work (i.e. a court, an office, or a remote setting such as your home) will be based on the kind of work you are undertaking.
This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility alongside our Mental Health First Aiders Programme and Wellbeing Sessions.
CPS commits to offer its employees the following experience
- Impactful, purposeful work – making a difference to your local communities
- The ability to learn and grow, with access to the right opportunities and resources
- To care about your wellbeing
- To feel valued, trusted and included
We also offer the following range of benefits:
- Civil Service Pension
- Access to employee savings
- Cycle2Work scheme
- 25 days leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service.
- 1 extra privilege day entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday.
- Competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
- Flexible working and a family friendly approach to work.
- Childcare vouchers unless already registered with the Government Tax Free Childcare Scheme
Diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service is about inclusion, embracing differences and ensuring our workforce truly reflects the communities we serve. We want you to feel that you belong and can thrive, whatever your background, identity or culture. As a Disability Confident employer, we're happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments and improve your recruitment experience. If you'd like any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process, let us know within your application or contact jonathan.fairclough@cps.gov.uk.
The CPS also has a range of development programmes to support all aspiring, new and experienced managers with developing the skills, behaviours and knowledge to build their confidence and capability. Our Manager Induction Programme is mandatory for all managers appointed from April 2024. This is a fantastic opportunity to arm all our new CPS managers with the tools required to perform effectively in their roles.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
The recruitment process will consist of an online application and interview which are expected to take place on 18th – 22nd November 2024.
Your interview will be conducted online via Microsoft Teams. A member of our recruitment team will be in touch with further guidance. If you have any queries about this please contact jonathan.fairclough@cps.gov.uk.
Behaviours
You will also be asked to complete a statement of no more than 250 words per behaviour setting out how you consider your personal skills, qualities, experience, match the specified behaviours and requirements as detailed in the job description. In addition you will need to demonstrate the CPS or Civil Service Values.
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating & Influencing (Lead Behaviour)
- Working Together
- Developing Self & Others
In addition, you will need to demonstrate the following experience required for this role, detailed in the experience of the candidate pack, which are:
- Experience of a similar role leading a Health & Safety team in a large organisation with multiple internal and external stakeholders
You will also need to demonstrate the CPS or Civil Service Values.
The panel has the right to assess the lead behaviour ‘Communicating & Influencing’ first. If the standard on this behaviour isn’t met, the other behaviours won’t be considered and your application won’t progress. The panel also has the right to raise the minimum standard pass mark.
Please note, the panel may also refer to the lead behavior at the interview stage to determine merit order.
CV
You will not be required to upload your CV however, when submitting your application there is a ‘CV section.’ You will be required to provide information regarding your employment/academic history for the past 3 years and qualification details.
It is the candidate’s responsibility to provide the specified application information in the requested format to ensure that they are considered for the post.
Please note, if you are unable to cover 3 years through employment/ academic, a character reference will be required for clearance purposes.
Strengths
Strengths will be tested at interview stage, the strengths being tested will not be shared in advance of the interview.
Use of AI
Candidates must ensure that their applications, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note, that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Other
This is a full-time post. However, requests for flexible, part-time working and job share will be considered, considering at all times the operational needs of the Department.
We want to ensure our employees can thrive at work and home, and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment. We offer a hybrid working policy. From September 2024, you must spend at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period at court, in an office or another official workplace depending on business need and the kind of work you're doing.
Clearance Required
The successful applicant will be required to secure DBS clearance.
If successfully appointed, you will be asked to complete the Character Enquiry Form and Nationality and Immigration Questionnaire.
(If you are an internal member of staff, you will not be required to undergo this DBS check as you will already hold this clearance)
Waiting List
Candidates who are recommended by the selection panel but not appointed to the current vacancy will be placed on a waiting list for 12 months and may be offered another post, should any further vacancies for a Head of Health and Safety Manager arise in their chosen location. CPS may also approach candidates on the waiting list to fill other roles requiring similar knowledge and experience, including in other locations.
Feedback
Feedback will not be provided until the vacancy is complete, please note that written feedback will not be provided for candidates who do not pass the application stage.
The successful applicant will be required to secure DBS/SC/DV (please remove as required) clearance.
If successfully appointed, you will be asked to complete the Character Enquiry Form and Nationality and Immigration Questionnaire (ALSO National Security Vetting Form if SC/DV)
(If you are an internal member of staff, you will not be required to undergo this DBS check as you will already hold this clearance)
Fair Processing Notice (FPN)
From April 2018, the CPS will provide a Fair Processing Notice (FPN) to all new applicants after they have been successful at interview. These candidates will be informed that, as one aspect of pre-employment screening, their personal details – name, National Insurance Number and date of birth - will be checked against the Internal Fraud Database (IFD) and that anyone included on the IFD will be refused employment unless they can demonstrate exceptional circumstances.
The Strategic Resourcing team in the CPS will, on behalf of the vacancy holder, inform applicants when they are refused employment because of their inclusion in the IFD.
Civil Service Commissioners
If you are dissatisfied with the recruitment process and wish to make a complaint, please contact Strategic.Resourcing@cps.gov.uk with your concerns.
If you remain dissatisfied and wish to make a further complaint, please click on the following link to the Civil Service Commissioners complaints page https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/civilservicerecruitmentcomplaints/
Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles can be found here –
https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/
Details of the Civil Service Nationality Rules are located at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules
Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements. For the most up-to-date information on the requirements of working in the UK, please go to the UK Visas and Immigration website: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Jonathan Fairclough
- Email : jonathan.fairclough@cps.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : strategic.resourcing@cps.gov.uk
