Health and Safety Manager (Facilities Management)

About us

The Safety & Compliance Team is a dynamic team which exists to work within the Directorate of Estates & Facilities and the wider university environment to ensure that the directorate performs all of its health & safety legislative and statutory duties.

The team covers all aspects of safety and compliance for the university including Legionella / water safety, asbestos, fire, health and safety and statutory compliance. The team is based at Waterloo campus, but provides support across the entire KCL estate.

About the role

As a member of the Safety & Compliance Team, you will become a valued and trusted contributor within the team in their area of specialism, working collaboratively with your peers to support the Safety & Compliance teams in their delivery to the directorate senior leadership team and the wider University. You will be supporting the Head of Technical Compliance in:

• Ensuring the Directorate of Estates & Facilities complies with its duties under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
• Administering and triaging the accident management system for all estates and facilities related incidents.
• Providing professional advice and guidance to the Directorate regarding health and safety.
• Management and provision of toolbox talk programme for staff within facilities management and wider estates community as required.
• Supporting the development and implementation of a directorate-wide health and safety management system to deliver against buildings safety requirements, compliance management, and procurement of competent service providers.
• Ensuring that health and safety policies, procedures and best practice are embedded across the E&F directorate and where required these are reviewed and updated.
• Completion of inspections and audits across the directorate to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and polices / procedures.
• Maintaining stakeholder engagement across the directorate and wider community to ensure communication on health and safety matters.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered an indefinite contract

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills & experience:

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level in a science related subject and/or suitably qualified with extensive relevant experience in a similar role.
• Hold professional qualifications such as NEBOSH General Certificate or similarly recognized qualification, and hold professional membership such as IOSH or evidence of working towards attaining them through track record of maintaining continuous learning through CPD.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in Health and safety with a comprehensive knowledge of health & safety legislation and committed to own ongoing professional and personal development.
• Experience of producing high quality reports and correspondence and giving clear oral reports/presentations
• High degree of competence in IT skills, e.g., use of Microsoft Office, PowerBI (or similar) and the ability to learn new software and new systems.
• Good organisational skills and ability to work to competing deadlines
• Ability to work effectively alone and across multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to confidently engage senior management and other stakeholders in an effective, collaborative, & influential manner.

Desirable criteria

• Hold NEBOSH Diploma Qualification or currently working towards this.
• Experience of working within the Higher Education or NHS sectors
• Have demonstrable experience in: Contractual practices and procedures, Procurement, Building construction and engineering.
• Experience of site auditing / inspection
• Experience with implementing or contributing to health and safety management system aligned to HS(G)65 / ISO450001

Interviews are due to be held in August 2026

£53,947 to £63,350 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Allowance