Health and Safety Adviser

£40,835 + benefits | Bath | Hybrid

Full Time | Permanent | 37 hours per week

Your Health and Safety Expertise. Our People. Safer Communities.

At Curo, we take pride in keeping our colleagues and customers safe — whether that's our trade teams working in people's homes, our office-based colleagues, or the residents living across our 13,500 properties. Health and safety touches everything we do, and we need someone who cares about getting it right.

Many health and safety adviser roles focus on one type of environment. This role covers everything from trade operations and construction, through to corporate and office -based settings, giving you breadth and variety that's hard to find in one position. If you're after genuine variety across your working week, this role has it.

Working as part of a two-person health and safety team, you'll provide expert guidance across the whole organisation — from risk assessments and compliance through to training delivery and incident investigations. If you don't yet hold a NEBOSH General Certificate, we'll support you to achieve it.

What you'll be doing

• Creating, reviewing and maintaining risk assessments, COSHH assessments, policies and safe systems of work across our operations

• Advising managers and colleagues on health and safety matters, ensuring we meet our statutory obligations and promote safe working practices

• Delivering engaging health and safety inductions, toolbox talks and safety briefings — particularly for our trade teams, where new starters join every two weeks

• Investigating accidents, near-misses and incidents, identifying root causes and sharing learning to prevent recurrence

• Conducting site audits and inspections, checking that our teams are working safely and addressing any issues

• Reporting compliance data and presenting findings to our safety committee

• Building strong relationships across the business, making safety practical and accessible at every level

What you'll get in return

Beyond a competitive salary of £40,835 and the chance to make a real difference every day, you'll get:

• 26 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) rising to 29 days after 3 years

• Your birthday off as an extra holiday

• Up to 10% matched pension contribution

• Hybrid working (3 days office, 2 days home)

• Flexible benefits which might include a Health Cash Plan

• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme for your own wellbeing

More about you

You're a practical, approachable health and safety professional who can explain complex safety information clearly — whether you're briefing a team of electricians on working at height or advising a director on organisational risk.

You're comfortable with the administrative side of health and safety too. This role involves a significant amount of writing — risk assessments, policies, reports, COSHH documentation — and you'll need to be organised and methodical in managing a busy compliance workload across multiple priorities.

Essential:

• Practical experience of providing health and safety advice and support in an operational environment, particularly with trade or manual workforce activities

• Experience of conducting risk assessments, audits, inspections and incident investigations

• Experience of developing and delivering health and safety training, toolbox talks or safety briefings

• Strong communication skills — able to engage colleagues at all levels, from trade operatives to senior leaders

• Well organised and self-motivated, with the ability to manage your own workload across multiple priorities

• Full UK driving licence

Desirable:

• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent qualification)

• Experience in social housing, construction, facilities management or a similar property services environment

• Experience of CDM regulations and their application to maintenance and refurbishment works

About Curo

We're a leading South West housing association with social purpose at our heart. We provide affordable homes and create positive futures in our communities. We're proud to be among the UK's top 100 companies to work for, and the 5th best housing association nationwide.

We actively welcome applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBTQ+, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and from our Curo customers.

We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone — if you need any adjustments to help you apply or interview, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk