Health & Safety Group Lead
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
Your opportunity
What’s the Opportunity
We have an opportunity for a Health and Safety Group Lead to join our team based in Oxford to support the journey and development of a generative H&S culture. You will contribute to, and be responsible for, the delivery of a cultural roadmap across the national business.
The Health and Safety Group Lead will be responsible for promoting and embedding a positive safety culture within the construction consultancy. This role involves ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, codes of practice, and company policies, while proactively working with managers and staff to establish and maintain safe systems of work and environments.
The role will offer you the ability to engage in multiple office and property and designer disciplines with challenging risk profiles, gain an understanding of key hazards typical consultancy risk profile and integrate a H&S and wellbeing culture, as an individual and as part of a wider team. You must be able to work with both internal and external project stakeholders to ensure Health and Safety issues are properly addressed and managed during the project lifecycle. The role requires an understanding of human behaviour and behavioural safety initiatives and tools such as Hearts and Minds, +People and BBS.
What you need to do to be effective in this role
The role will require you to:
- Foster engagement across all levels to build a unified and motivated commitment to achieving zero harm.
- Encourage individuals to recognize the power of personal choice and inspire them to adopt safer behaviours for enhanced safety performance.
- Support teams in strengthening their safety culture and overall effectiveness by:
- Equipping supervisors with the skills and confidence to ensure safe work practices through coaching principles.
- Guiding leaders to embrace their responsibility in shaping a positive safety culture through visibility and strategic direction.
- Developing coaches who drive proactive safety improvements and sustainable performance enhancements.
- Establish clear connections between outstanding safety outcomes and broader business success, ensuring open communication channels that highlight opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Identify training needs and collaborate with the People team to develop and deliver health and safety training programs.
- Lead investigations into accidents and incidents, perform root cause analysis, and recommend corrective actions.
- Work closely with senior leadership and internal teams to address health and safety concerns and promote best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement in health and safety practices through audits, inspections, and feedback mechanisms.
- Carry out H&S specific management system reviews
- Promote and manage clear communication between senior leadership and KPIs outputs and management of health and safety issues at all levels
- Prepare and issue the specific Health and Safety performance reports
- Support Ridge stakeholder develop safety leadership skills
- Undertake assurance activities aligned with the cultural roadmap
The skills and experience you need to have for this role
- Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, Psychological Science, or a related field.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in health and safety management, preferably within the construction industry.
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent certification in health and safety.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and drive cultural change.
- Proactively takes initiative to identify and address health and safety issues.
- Pays attention to detail and ensures thoroughness in tasks.
- Works well with others and fosters a team-oriented environment.
- Able to handle pressure and adapt to changing circumstances.
Key interfaces:
- Executives and Senior Leadership teams
- Compliance team
- Architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, project managers
- Health and Safety Executive employees
- Health and Safety managers
About us
We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.
Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.
Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.
- Quality
- THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR BUSINESS.
From concept to execution, our work is driven by passion, technical expertise and an uncompromising commitment to excellence - delivering solutions that stand the test of time. We don’t need - or want - to be the biggest. Just the best.
- Ingenuity
- AS STANDARD.
We question assumptions and look beyond the obvious - applying technical depth and creativity to solve problems that matter. We find better ways today, then improve on them tomorrow.
- Partnership
- BUILT ON TRUST. GROWN OVER TIME.
Since 1946, strong relationships have shaped everything we do. We listen, challenge with care, and stay with you for the long haul - turning shared goals into lasting impact.
- Aspiration
- THE FIRE IN OUR BELLY.
We start with a vision - then push the boundaries of what’s possible. With bold ideas and a clear view of the future, we turn ambitions into meaningful outcomes.
Your benefits
The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.
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We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.
A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.
A polite note to recruitment agencies
We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.
Note to recruitment agencies
We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.
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