Health and Safety Adviser

Do you have a clear understanding of how health and safety policies are implemented? Do you have relevant experience and do you enjoy adapting quickly when giving advice and making a difference at various levels? Are you an enthusiastic go-getter who ensures a safe and healthy working environment? Then we’re looking for you!

What are you going to do?
As a Health and Safety Adviser, you believe that a healthy and pleasant workplace and working environment have an impact on your colleagues’ job satisfaction, and you enjoy working continuously to promote their wellbeing. In this role, you act as the link between risks, policy and implementation. You help our organisation to systematically improve and effectively organise safe and healthy working practices.

You will improve policies, protocols and working methods. The central question in this regard is always: can colleagues work effectively with these in practice? You will translate legislation and regulations into clear agreements, practical solutions and achievable improvement measures. You coordinate and advise, but you also take an active role in addressing issues, implementing improvements and carrying out health and safety activities. You identify developments and bottlenecks, translate these into improvement initiatives and help ensure that health and safety agreements are also applied in day-to-day practice.

Your primary responsibilities include overseeing the various risk inventories and evaluations (RI&E). In some cases, in your role as a health and safety officer, you will be directly responsible for implementing measures. You will ensure that you have sufficient management information to assess your plans and make proposals for improvement. You will work closely with managers, the HR department, the works council and colleagues from Facilities Management.   

You are someone who finds it easy to connect with others and who knows how to inspire them and get them on board with our organisation’s vision for a healthy and safe workplace policy. You translate this into tangible results in the form of swift solutions, as well as projects focused on health and safety.

As a consultant, you help to open up discussions. You can switch effortlessly between different levels. You ensure that various health and safety issues are communicated to both management and staff.

You are the face of health and safety in the workplace. In your day-to-day work, which takes place across several of our local authority’s sites, and through your frequent contact with your colleagues, you spot immediate opportunities for improvement. You identify these and take action. In doing so, you carry out analyses and draw up plans, which you implement together with your colleagues, whilst ensuring that the plans are carried out.

You will be working in the Facilities Department. Together with a health and safety officer, you will form the health and safety team. You will coordinate your work, contribute ideas and support one another where necessary. In this way, you will work together to ensure continuity, maintain an overview and provide practical support to the organisation.

Here’s what we offer you

• A 36-hour-a-week role;
• A gross monthly salary of up to €5,624 (scale 10) based on a 36-hour working week;
• A laptop and a mobile phone, because we believe you can only do a good job if you have the right equipment;
• An Individual Choice Budget (IKB) of 17,45% on top of your salary. You can use this, for example, for:
• Extra income by having it paid out;
• Buying extra holiday hours.
• A good work-life balance, with the option to save up leave and flexible working hours;
• Focus on the opportunities we offer as an employer in the areas of learning and development, both in terms of professional skills and career progression;
• 201.6 holiday hours based on a 36-hour week;
• An attractive pension scheme;
• It’s a lovely setting, as our townhouse has been beautifully modernised and fitted out to support flexible working;
• Can you work from home (part-time) in your role? If so, you will receive a home-working allowance and may be provided with a home office.

Here’s what we’d like you to do

• You have completed a higher professional education (HBO) degree, preferably in a relevant field such as advanced safety studies, health sciences or work and organisation.
• Demonstrable knowledge of health and safety legislation and relevant work experience.
• You naturally seek to connect with others and work as a team. Of course, you’re a real go-getter who radiates energy and knows how to turn that into tangible results.
• You are proactive, communicate clearly and openly, and have good writing skills.
• You have good organisational skills and are persuasive.
• You have an unerring ability to set priorities and raise issues in a persuasive manner. Achieving results is an integral part of this.
• You have knowledge of topics such as hazardous substances, risk assessments and working safely.

Comment
You can apply via the ‘Apply’ button until 9 November. Do you have any questions? If so, please contact Natascha Béguin, Head of Internal Services, via n.beguin@apeldoorn.nl or 06 2836 2446.

Working for Apeldoorn
…means working for an open and ambitious organisation. With a population of over 170,000, we are the 12th^e A municipality in the Netherlands. With around 2,000 colleagues, we contribute to the organisation’s strategic objectives: strengthening Apeldoorn as a family-friendly city, making Apeldoorn sustainable and enterprising, and creating a world-class tourist destination.

Everyone’s taking part
Apeldoorn City Council is an inclusive organisation. We firmly believe that a diverse organisation enables us to be better prepared for developments in society. As well as your talents and qualities, you also bring your background and preferences with you. You’re welcome here!