The Job

This is a varied role that will see you work alongside a range of colleagues to ensure significant business risks are mitigated and continuity arrangements adequate and operational.

At Southern we are refreshing our approach to managing health and safety in every area of our work. A key task will be to develop a new stand alone health and safety risk register that sets out our risks, how we mitigate them and leads to good reporting on our performance.

You will manage with assistance from the Insurance Officer the Group’s Insurance arrangements. You will ensure the necessary cover is maintained, and keep abreast of market and technical changes. You will work with our insurers and other experts to provide a range of advice, support and training.

The successful candidate will:

• Hold a relevant degree, professional qualification and/or be qualified by experience
• Have comprehensive knowledge of risk management, internal controls, the insurance industry and business continuity management
• Be comfortable communicating at all levels, both internally and externally
• Be confident in report writing and hold strong presentation skills, as well as having the ability to interpret and write policies and procedures
• Be comfortable in working alone or as part of a team
• Be well organised and able to prioritise your workloads, adapting to changing timescales and have strong attention to detail
• Be happy to attend occasional out-of-hours meetings and willing to travel as necessary in order to get the job done

What we’ll offer you

• A salary of circa £45,000 - £50,000 per annum
• 23 days holidays plus public holidays. We also close between Christmas and New Year, so you get another 3 days bonus!
• A great pension scheme
• The ability to buy extra leave and discount cards
• Flexible working
• Employee referral scheme
• Cash claim-back on medical treatments
• Travel to work loan
• Discounted rates on a cycle scheme, personal medical plans, life assurance, give as you earn, critical illness and travel insurance

Southern Housing Group is one of the largest housing associations in southern England and has a well-established reputation as a successful business with social objectives. We provide housing of all different types of customers who live in our almost 30,000 properties. With more than 900 colleagues, we’re an organisation that’s going places.

Please be aware that due to the nature and sensitivities of some of our roles we are not always able to consider applications from Southern Housing Group residents.

Please include a supporting statement explaining how your skills and experience meet the criteria of the job description and person specification.

Please note that colleagues who are at risk of redundancy due to the current business reviews will be given priority consideration for this role. Applications from colleagues who are not at risk will be considered if there are no expressions of interest from ‘at risk’ colleagues.

Closing Date: Monday 28 January 2019