Health & Safety Manager 12 months Fixed Term – Based at Preston

About the role

Reporting to the Director of Health, Safety and Security, this is a pivotal role in delivering a proactive, compliant and service-focused health and safety function across all College sites. You will translate strategy into practice, providing visible leadership, ensuring operational standards are consistently met, and maintaining full compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

You will oversee day-to-day health and safety operations, including audits, inspections, incident investigations, and the development of safe systems of work. A key part of your role will be supporting managers across curriculum and professional services areas to embed strong safety management practices, ensuring risk assessments, COSHH documentation and local arrangements remain current and effective.

You will lead and develop the Health & Safety Officers, fostering a positive safety culture through regular engagement with staff, students and contractors. You will act as deputy to the Director when required, contributing to reports, updates and committee discussions, and providing expert advice across the College.

The role also includes supporting emergency planning, RIDDOR reporting, first aid provision, and the delivery of health and safety training. Sustainability underpins all areas of responsibility, and you will champion continuous improvement by analysing performance data, identifying trends and implementing positive change.

While this is a full-time role at 37 hours per week, we welcome applications from candidates who are unable to commit to full-time hours, with a minimum of 30 hours per week required.

What We Offer: 

We take care of our team just as we do our students. As an employee, you can enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• Generous holiday entitlement.
• Regular Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities.
• Hassle free onsite parking at our Preston Campus.
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to provide wellbeing support in moments of need.
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

We are flexible working friendly and happy to discuss interest in flexible working. 

Visit our website https://bit.ly/CareersAtMyerscough for the full list of excellent benefits our college offers.

Please note that as part of our commitment to safeguarding our students, our background screening checks include limited online searches. Online searches will only be undertaken in respect of the successful candidate, as a pre-conditional term of our job offer. 

Safeguarding our students is of paramount importance. Our recruitment process has been designed to keep students safe and to ensure that we appoint safe and suitable people. 

All successful applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment background and safeguarding checks. 

The successful applicant will be responsible for complying with all safeguarding policies and practices, and for ensuring student safety and wellbeing is at the forefront of everything they do. 

This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. 

We are an equal opportunity employer; we want all our candidates to have a fair and equal opportunity to secure employment with us. We encourage applications from all underrepresented groups: BAME applicants, disabled applicants, and LGBT+ applicants. 

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, due to a disability, then please speak with a member of the People team. 

As a disability confident employer, we commit to guaranteeing an interview for any disabled applicant who meets all of the essential criteria.