Health & Safety Lead - Belfast
5 days ago
Belfast
About the job Job summary Discover what it's like to work in a compliance role that makes an impact. Could you help us shape a stronger, fairer future? Your next career move starts here. HMRC is the UK's tax, payments and customs authority, and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK's public services; and help families and individuals with targeted financial support. HMRC achieves this by being impartial and increasingly effective and efficient in our administration. HMRC helps the honest majority to get their tax right and make it hard for the dishonest minority to cheat the system. The Customer Compliance Group (CCG) is the largest business group in HMRC and is responsible for helping individuals and businesses to get their tax right. We enforce minimum wage, spot risks and prevent fraud. CCG business group is made up of approximately ~30,000 people across 11 directorates, making it a varied business area to work in. Our teams specialise in different areas, to make sure we collect the right amount of tax from individuals and businesses. Our work includes: • Investigating taxpayer records., • Tackling tax avoidance schemes., • Enforcing the minimum wage., • Fraud investigation., • Lead programme delivery - set direction, priorities and outcomes for CCG's H&S improvement programme for visiting activity, aligning delivery with the Group's risk‑reduction goals., • Provide high‑level H&S technical policy advice - give timely, expert advice to directorates and senior leaders, increasing confidence and capability to apply policy and controls in dynamic operational contexts., • Influence and partner at all levels - build trusted relationships across operational and non‑operational business areas, including and not limited to HR H&S, Trade Unions, the HMRC H&S Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) and the HMRC Personal Safety Board (PBS). Engaging with these partners to agree clear actions, plans and embed consistent, practical H&S practice across CCG., • Strengthen governance and assurance - actively contribute to CCG and cross‑HMRC governance forums; use insight and MI to inform decisions, track risk and target improvement at scale., • Lead people and build capability - lead, coach and develop the H&S team and champion wider capability‑building across CCG, so colleagues and line managers have the knowledge, guidance and support to operate safely., • Drive improvement and cultural change - lead cross‑CCG initiatives that lift maturity in risk assessment practice, leadership behaviours, incident reporting, investigation quality and organisational learning., • Communicating and influencing at senior level - proven ability to engage credibly with senior stakeholders, simplify complex H&S issues, influence decisions, and communicate with clarity in a large operational environment., • Leading delivery and driving change - a strong track record of leading delivery in complex or multi directorate settings - turning plans into results, managing interdependencies and risks, and embedding consistent practice and behavioural change at scale., • People safety & H&S risk management expertise - practical experience applying Health & Safety legislation, risk assessment and controls in dynamic/frontline or operational contexts (e.g., visiting activity), with evidence of improving risk posture, compliance and organisational capability., • Communicating and Influencing, • Delivering at Pace, • Making Effective Decisions, • Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary., • Family friendly policies., • Personal support., • A name-blind CV including your job history covering up to your last 5 roles. For each role, you should outline your key responsibilities and achievements that demonstrate how your experience is relevant to and suitable for this role (maximum 300 words per role). You will also be asked to list your qualifications in a separate section., • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020