• Manage individual and team skills, competencies and workloads. Identify progression and succession opportunities for staff within the team and actively support them in gaining the experience necessary to develop further. Seek to reduce any areas of single point of failure where key skills are vested in only one individual. Ensure that this covers both skills required today but also skills that are likely to be required into the future. When and where required complete recruitment activities. • Within the broader health and safety partnering structure (Health and Safety Business Partners and specialist support) for a number of senior stakeholders within the University, reviewing the quality of health and safety service delivery, driving improvements and working with them to develop any longer term business enhancing project proposals which may require investment. • Working with the Registrar be a major contributor to the health and safety strategic direction and to the processes of creation, consultation and promotion of the strategy itself. • Initiate, develop and manage effective partnerships with other University Service Delivery teams within the Professional Services (HR, Finance, Estates etc.) to deliver any services which rely on more than one division in the most effective way, minimising hand-offs between teams. • Planning horizon of 3 years (reflecting the development and implementation of a 3 year organisational health and safety strategy).
• Be the University’s expert and conscience on health and safety; set the overall strategic direction for the further adoption health and safety management initiatives. Develop and be accountable for the overall health and safety management strategy within the University whilst ensuring that the H&S processes integrate seamlessly with other management priorities. • Adopt a balanced approach to risk to support the rapid, continual yet stable introduction of new services into the live environment putting in place robust and repeatable processes for ensuring all our undertakings are delivered in a safe and compliant manner. • Develop an appropriate suite of metrics and key performance indicators which will assist the University Leadership team in identifying areas of improvement or opportunity. Lead the University in developing their ability to take decisions that demonstrate leadership in health and safety • Take a lead role in our Health and Safety Review and Improvement processes. Develop and lead our ongoing performance management and review function to ensure that key risks arising from our activities are being effectively managed. • Provide strategic direction setting for health and safety business continuity. Ensure that all H&S Services have an appropriate continuity plan set within the broader UoL Continuity Strategy and support the wider initiative to improvement strategies, actively pursuing the benefits and opportunities available through developing the health and safety management system to reflect global best practice. Develop and manage relationships with key external stakeholders to maximise the benefits to the University of Leicester in a responsible, ethical and professional manner. improve University wide Business Continuity. • Take the lead on identifying health and safety
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