Health & Safety Administrator (Maternity Cover)

Location: University Park

Interview date: To be confirmed

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Health and Safety Administrator to join the growing Health and Safety team, as maternity cover.

We are seeking an enthusiastic team worker who can work independently and as part of a team. You will be friendly, proactive, and self-motivated. In addition, the successful candidate will possess excellent planning, organisation and communication skills.  

The role holder will work together with colleagues to provide administrative support and ensure day-to-day operational needs are met.

 As an Administrator you will:

• Support the Health and Safety Advisors with administrative tasks
• Receive and respond to internal and external queries, providing advice and resolving both simple and complex issues queries
• Support the coordination of the Health and Safety training programme, including booking of rooms, ordering catering and scheduling on the internal short courses’ website
• Monitoring budgets and raising purchases orders for the team.
• Maintaining databases
• Supporting with events and projects

 You will bring:

• Extensive level of IT skills, including MS Office suite (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams)
• Ability to build working relationships within the department, contacts around the University and external suppliers
• Ability to work independently to resolve complex internal and external queries.
• Provide and maintain a high level of customer service whilst working to deadlines.
• Accuracy, reliability and the willingness and adaptability to learn new skills and procedures.

Why work for us?

• 27 days annual leave entitlement with an additional 5 University Closure days and Bank Holidays
• A benefits package including a contributory pension scheme and the opportunity to take advantage of salary sacrifice options, enabling you to save money on childcare, shopping, and services. 
• We are committed to staff development through the provision of training, continued support, and career progression opportunities. 

Requests for secondment from internal candidates may be considered on the basis that prior agreement has been sought from both your current line manager and the manager of your substantive post, if you are already undertaking a secondment role.

The post is offered on a fixed term contract until 1^st January 2027 on a full time (36.25 hours per week) basis. The role is offered with a hybrid approach, with a minimum of three days in the office, subject to operational needs. 

Informal enquiries may be addressed to sarah.doyle@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note, applications sent directly to this email will not be accepted.

Further details:

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) employer. Increasing the diversity of our community is extremely important to us and we are committed to the aims of Disability Confident Scheme. 

We are the first university to have achieved Athena Swan Gold Award.

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This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have the right to work in UK.

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