Health, Safety & Workplace Lead

Reporting to our People Director and working closely with colleagues across the enterprise, you'll bring together three things that we think belong together:

keeping people safe; creating great environments; and enabling impact.

You'll lead our approach to health and safety, providing the expertise, assurance and systems we need to meet our responsibilities and manage risk well.

But you won't be expected to become the organisation's "health and safety police".

We work on the basis of trust, shared responsibility and good judgement. Your job will be to build confidence and capability across the Wise Group so that leaders and colleagues understand the part they play in creating safe environments.

You'll also lead and coordinate our approach to property, facilities and our physical workplaces - helping us make good decisions about existing spaces and contributing to the development of new ones.

That could mean:

shaping our health and safety approach so that it is proportionate, practical and easy for colleagues to understand;

helping a People Leader think through a risk rather than simply handing them a rule;

making sure our statutory responsibilities, systems, inspections and assurance are rock solid;

working with landlords, contractors and partners to keep our buildings safe and working well;

spending time in our hubs, listening to colleagues and noticing the things that could make their working environment better;

helping us think about accessibility, inclusion, wellbeing and colleague experience within our physical spaces;

supporting decisions about new hubs, relocations, refurbishments and our future property footprint;

using incidents, data and colleague feedback to help us learn and improve rather than simply record what happened; and

making sure our physical environments enable colleagues to focus on what matters most - delivering extraordinary impact for people and communities.

There will be audits, risk assessments, statutory inspections, incident investigations and compliance records. Those things matter.

At the Wise Group, we transform lives.

We do that through relationships - between our colleagues, the people we support, our partners and the communities in which we work. And increasingly, we do it through place.

Across the UK, we are developing a network of hubs that bring us closer to communities, partners and opportunity. They aren't simply offices. We want them to be places that feel welcoming, human and connected to their communities; places where colleagues want to spend time, where relationships can develop and where great work can happen.

That creates an exciting opportunity for our next Health, Safety & Workplace Lead.

Yes, we need someone who understands health and safety, risk, property and compliance.

But we're looking for much more than someone who can tell us whether we've followed the rules.

We want someone who can help us create safe, brilliant places to work.

Someone who understands that good health and safety should enable people rather than constrain them. Someone who can combine professional expertise with pragmatism, trust and good judgement. And someone who gets excited about helping shape the physical environments in which our colleagues deliver life-changing impact.

This isn't your typical Health & Safety role.

What you'll be part of

The way we work at the Wise Group is changing.

We are a flexible organisation with colleagues working across communities, from home, with partners and from a growing network of physical hubs across the UK.

Our hubs give us something important: a presence in place.

They connect our colleagues with each other and with the communities we serve. They create opportunities for collaboration, learning and relationships. And they provide welcoming environments in which colleagues and customers can meet and do their best work.

We want to make those environments exceptional.

As our Health, Safety & Workplace Lead, you'll help us think differently about what our physical presence should look and feel like as we grow.

You'll help us create environments that are safe and compliant, but also welcoming, inclusive, flexible and distinctly Wise Group.