At Homebase, the safety, health & wellbeing of our employees, customers and visitors always comes first. Because of this commitment, we are expanding our team and have an opportunity for a highly motivated safety professional to join us!
Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday - Friday (8 am - 4 pm OR 9 am - 5 pm). Should you require flexible working arrangements, please let us know and we will do our very best to accommodate these where possible!
Location: Remote. For this role, you will need to travel to different sites across your region, so you can expect to be working from our stores for 3-4 days per week, with frequent overnight stays, and occasional visits to our store support center in Milton Keynes. The rest of the time, you decide what works best for you - if that means you prefer working from stores full time then you're welcome to do so. If you prefer to work from home - then thats fine too!
Salary: We are offering a base salary between £28,000 - 32,000 (depending upon experience) plus car allowance and annual bonus earning potential!
Job purpose:
As a Health & Safety Business Partner you will work closely with individual stores, Divisional Business Leaders, and other business functions to promote a positive and proactive approach to safety, championing our HomeSafe system and helping us achieve our vision; Safety in Everything We do.
With multi-site travel involved to support our stores, your primary focus will be to influence, coach and support store and business leadership teams to achieve better safety outcomes and objectives through execution of our safety program.
Skills/ Knowledge/ Abilities
- A good understanding of current and emerging H&S challenges
- Sound knowledge of UK Health & Safety Legislation
- Ability to work within a team
- Excellent communication skills
- Formal Education: NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent (desirable)
- Work experience within H&S role or similar, multi-site experience and experience of retail operations (desirable)
- Team player, integrity, practical and hands on, attention to detail, pragmatic, agile and positive.
What can we offer you in return?
Making your pay go further
- 20% team member discount for Homebase and Bathstore when shopping in-store and online, available from your very first day with us
- We’ll give you the opportunity to enhance your pay through our fantastic, discretionary bonus plan
- Our Hapi To Be Home wellbeing portal helps you save money on everything from your weekly food shop to a fun night out with friends and family
- Holiday starting from 24 days plus bank holidays, rising with service
Saving for your future and giving back to local communities
- Homebase Personal Pension Plan (with Life Assurance cover)
- An opportunity to get involved in fundraising events, helping to raise money for our charity partner, Macmillan Cancer Support to fund home-related grants. These grants help keep those most in need safe and comfortable in their homes
- Our Payroll Giving Scheme makes it easy for you to make a regular donation to any registered charity close to your heart
Always growing together
- We'll offer you learning and development opportunities to give you the tools to do your job and there is also the opportunity to earn recognised qualifications from City and Guilds and to gain apprenticeship qualifications to enhance/develop you in your role or career with us
- Our monthly Lunch and Learn sessions will help you grow with talks from external and internal speakers
Sounds like a team you’d like to be part of? Click 'Apply’ now – we’d love to meet you!
After you apply, you will be asked to complete a short situational judgement questionnair, designed to help us access your cultural fit for Homebase. This is a multiple choice questionnaire and takes most candidates between 6 - 9 minutes to complete (however it is not timed so you may take as much or as little time as you need). We will always do our best to update candidates on the status of their application within 14 days, however due to the high volume of applications we recieve, it may on occasion take us longer.
Homebase operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union membership