Navy Command - COMFOST Health & Safety Senior Advisor

Job description

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

HMNB Portsmouth

About the job

Job summary

Are you an experienced Safety & Environmental Protection Manager looking to join an operationally focussed team ensuring Safety and Operational Standards across the Royal Navy fleet? Fleet Operational Standards and Training (FOST) delivers all aspects of RN Collective Training to meet RN and Joint Force Generation and Readiness requirements together with delivering impartial, independent Second Party Assurance (2PA) of Fleet Units. This role is responsible for the management of the Safety and Environment Management plan (SEMP) of the COMFOST organisation, ensuring that support is delivered efficiently to the Collective Training and Assurance Training Providers (T&APs), and that the organisation is fully aligned with the published SEMP.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The COMFOST Safety & Environmental Protection Manager will assume responsibility for the delivery of all Health, Safety and Environmental Protection (HSEP) and regulatory compliance activity within COMFOST organisation. You'll ultimately ensure that COMFOST achieves and maintains compliance with all appropriate regulatory requirements (Defence Safety Authority (DSA), JSP 815 and BRd10) by developing, implementing, and successfully delivering the processes to enable COMFOST to do so.

This is a new role, which is vital in developing fit-for-purpose process and ensuring alignment with statutory and Defence requirements, supporting COMFOSTs safety culture strategy and annual safety and environmental objectives and targets. You will need to demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to ensure the most effective outcomes and efficient processes are in place.

This post reports directly to COMFOST Chief of Staff. In Navy Command, our civil servants work alongside their military colleagues in jobs that matter; jobs which often have a direct impact on the quality of the operational capabilities we deliver.

Roles can offer great job satisfaction and there are many opportunities to develop and progress both within the Department and across the wider Civil Service.

Person specification
Experience:

• Experience within a regulatory environment or considerable experience within the field of safety management essential.
• Experience in a regulatory or safety leadership role - desirable.
• Risk Management within a Programme setting (multiple streams of effort) desirable.
• Project or Programme delivery experience desirable.
• Quality/Information management experience desirable.

Technical:

• Knowledge and understanding of ISO45001: Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSMS) - desirable.
• Knowledge and understanding of ISO14001 (2015): Environmental Management - desirable.
• Knowledge and understanding of ISO9001 - desirable.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes 11,631 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

As a civil servant in Navy Command, you will be part of a forward-looking organisation with inclusive workplace policies, excellent career prospects, and a job that makes a difference.

Navy Command prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/life balance.

Other benefits for Navy Command civil servants include:

• 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years service A very competitive pension scheme
• Personal & professional development
• Alternative working patterns for many roles
• Access to a confidential, professional support service
• Discount schemes
• Bicycle / season ticket loans
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Special paid leave to volunteer up to 6 days a year
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Sift and interview dates will take place within 2 weeks of the advert closing.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Candidates will be required to complete an online CV template to include job history, full details of education and qualifications and previous experiences and skills.

At Application Candidates will be assessed against the following:

• Working Together
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Managing a Quality Service

At Interview Candidates will be assessed against the following:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: [email protected] .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• 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
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.