[Hiring] Health & Safety Assurance Lead @Anchor Hanover

Role Description

Help strengthen health and safety assurance across Anchor. We're looking for an experienced Health & Safety Management Systems Assurance Lead to help ensure our health and safety arrangements are effective, consistently applied and continually improving.

Working closely with our H&S Oversight and Assurance Manager and teams across Anchor, you'll take a hands-on, independent approach to auditing, evidence gathering and assessing how effectively health and safety risks are managed. You'll play a key role in delivering our internal audit and assurance programme, identifying areas for improvement and providing clear, evidence-based findings to support safer environments for residents, colleagues and visitors.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the planning and conducting risk-based health and safety audits across Housing, Care and Corporate services.
• Assessing the effectiveness of our Health & Safety Management System against the principles and requirements of ISO 45001, the HSE's HSG65 framework and relevant health and safety legislation.
• Gathering and evaluating evidence to identify gaps, recurring issues and systemic risks.
• Providing assurance across our key health and safety compliance areas, including the Big 6.
• Producing clear audit reports and recommendations for operational teams, senior leaders and the Board.
• Following up on audit findings to ensure corrective actions are effective and improvements are sustained.
• Supporting continuous improvement and our readiness for future ISO 45001 certification.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in health and safety management systems, internal auditing or independent assurance within a large, complex organisation.
• A NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent recognised qualification.
• An ISO 45001 Lead Auditor qualification or equivalent recognised auditing qualification.
• Proven experience planning and conducting internal, thematic or management system audits.
• Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation, ISO 45001 and HSG65.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret evidence, identify trends and communicate findings clearly.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the confidence to constructively challenge existing practices.
• A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel.
• Experience within housing, care or another regulated, multi-site environment would be beneficial, alongside experience of ISO 45001 implementation or certification.

Benefits

• Health & happiness: Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts, mental health support, flexible working options, access to online GP appointments.
• Finance: Pension plan - contribute between 4% and 8% and we'll match it or better, quick and easy pension transfer service, savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance, discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more, free Blue Light Card.
• Career: Ongoing personal and professional development programme, Leadership Pathways online learning resources, career progression and promotion opportunities.

Company Description

Anchor is England's largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

• We're not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here.
• Our values: Accountable, Respectful, Courageous, Honest.
• We celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do.