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Interim Health and Safety Manager
Job Posted: 3 hours ago
Salary: £ 400 - 400 / Day
Job Type: Contract Temporary
Location: Greater Manchester
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Interim Health & Safety Manager
Cheadle / Hybrid
6 Month Contract - Immediate Start
We're working with a leading education and care charity who are entering an exciting phase of transformation. They are seeking an Interim Health & Safety Manager to strengthen, embed and elevate health and safety across a diverse multi-site environment, ensuring safe, compliant and high-quality operations.
Reporting to the Head of Estates & Facilities, this role operates as both strategic advisor and operational lead - shaping policy, overseeing improvement programmes, and supporting services directly in managing risk, compliance and incident response.
Responsibilities of the Interim Health & Safety Manager will include:
Acting as the Trust-wide subject matter expert, building strong relationships with Heads of Service and operational leaders
Leading the Health & Safety function and line managing the Health & Safety Officer
Developing and implementing the Health & Safety Strategy in alignment with organisational priorities
Coordinating statutory inspections, audits, drills and compliance checks including fire safety, COSHH, RIDDOR, asbestos and legionella
Supporting site teams to identify, assess and mitigate risk - advising on control measures and safe systems of work
Guiding incident management, investigations, root cause analysis and internal learning reviews
Delivering training, awareness campaigns and coaching to improve safety ownership and capability across the workforce
Maintaining oversight of policies, registers, incident reporting systems and data accuracyThe successful Interim Health & Safety Manager will have:
Experience managing health and safety across multi-site operations
Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety law and statutory obligations including RIDDOR, COSHH and fire safety frameworks
Experience conducting audits, inspections, incident investigations and improvement planning
Experience line managing or supervising health and safety professionals
Ability to engage senior leaders, influence decision-making and support transformation
Experience delivering training, documentation, communications or internal campaigns related to health and safetyThis is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation during a strong phase of change - with the scope to influence systems, culture and risk maturity across the Trust.
For more information, contact Tom Hewat at or (phone number removed).
Irwin & Colton are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company, based in the South East of England we recruit across the UK. We recruit all roles in the health and safety industry from Health and Safety Manager, Health and Safety Director through to Health and Safety Advisor positions.
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