Senior lead, safety & health risk management team

About the organisation

London is like no other city. There are more than eight million residents and over 300 languages spoken – with unique challenges and opportunities. Crime is constantly evolving and the Met need to adapt to meet new demands – be the lead to deliver the Met’s operational safety and health risk management service.

Job purpose

• Lead and deliver the MPS operational safety and health risk management service including the strategy, annual H&S plan and KPIs to ensure, as far as possible, legal compliance with H&S legislation.
• Lead corporate safety point of contact on all MPS strategic, operational safety, training and 1st Aid matters with relevant internal stakeholders or external stakeholders as directed by the Head of health, safety and well-being.
• Responsible for the operational Safety and Health Risk Management Team (SHRMT) performance and service delivery. Supporting senior managers (Management Board level) to manage operations to deliver services that meet the legal compliance standards, service specification and meet service delivery arrangements and customer's expectations.
• Deploy and manage the operational SHRMT.
• Deputise for the head of health, safety and well-being.
• Attendance at Criminal, Civil, Coroner's courts as required.
• Responsible for developing and implementation of Business Continuity Plan (and associated Business Impact Assessment).
• Responsible for management of H&S related FoIA enquiries.

Key result areas

• Deputising for head of health, safety and well-being as directed.
• Implement the MPS strategic operational H&S targets to ensure the MPS, as far as possible, complies with legislation and external audit recommendations, and hold the Business to account for under-performance as necessary.
• Deliver the strategic operational safety and health risk management service (including First Aid and training) within the Met.
• Validate the MPS H&S Culture Assurance Assessment Process to provide safety assurance to the Commissioner and Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime on safety compliance within the MPS.
• Deliver effective MPS on-call operational support to Gold Groups and SHRMT response in the event of major incidents.
• Provide a 24-hour emergency call-out service.
• Provide the strategic, operational and training elements of the MPS accident and near miss reporting process and systems.
• Support, promote, mentor, train and drive continuous H&S improvement and positive safety culture.
• Provide the strategic operational input to MPS safety related organisational learning.
• Manage performance and deployment of strategic, operational safety, training and 1st Aid related resources, ensuring KPIs are met.
• Monitoring the MPS compliance against the corporate safety management system, and reporting and acting on under-performance and areas of high risk and concern.
• Monthly reporting to Head of Health, Safety and well-being on performance against KPIs and any high-risk issues both internally and within the Business.
• Application of new legislation, organisational change, performance targets/priorities, audit recommendations or any other relevant operational changes ensuring continued performance against targets.
• Liaison, including incident/accident/complaint investigations with enforcement agencies to maintain compliance with legislation and to avoid enforcement/legal action.
• Liaison with other police forces, emergency service providers and comparable organisations to maintain best operational practice and undertake regular benchmarking exercises.
• Advising senior officers and managers up to Management Board level on appropriate H&S protocols for their particular area of operational delivery.
• Line management of staff to ensure welfare/well-being and adherence to policies.
• Co-ordination of senior safety advisor support to BOCUs, trainer provision to scheduled H&S courses and analytical research and data collecting.
• Co-ordination of review of corporate H&S risk assessment process and training to eliminate, manage or reduce risk in the workplace.
• Oversee the audit of business areas, BOCUs and thematic portfolio subjects across MPS to test compliance with legislation.
• Oversee the accident, incident and near miss investigations process at corporate level to ensure that outstanding risks are mitigated and organisational learning is captured.

Scope for impact

• Implement the safety policy, provide advice on best practice/value for money on the provision of health and safety which informs or directs the working of the MPS (Management Board level). This is vital for an effective and efficient safety management system. Failure may result in criminal enforcement action against the MOPAC, MPS or individual staff.
• Co-ordinate the strategic, operational safety, training and 1st Aid input including accident and near miss investigation, system and processes.
• Develop/co-ordinate health and safety loss reduction strategies associated with civil claims, injury on duty awards and time loss.
• As directed, co-ordinate the review of Board papers for safety compliance.
• Develop/co-ordinate corporate safety standards and internal KPIs (ensuring the maintenance of high-quality service to strategic, operational safety, training and 1st Aid areas of the MPS through periods of change, staff vacancies, business re-prioritisation and financial constraint).
• Liaise and negotiate, sometimes in a challenging environment, with senior officers at ACPO and Management Board level.
• Direct operations and work activities of the operational SHRMT to best serve the needs of customers and stakeholders, within financial and legal constraints.
• Develop/co-ordinate the safety position on internal corporate issues including, as appropriate, external issues including strategy, operational and training delivery, procurement of services, contractual arrangements and equipment including first aid.
• Audit and analysis of MPS safety performance including operational and safety assets.
• Co-ordinate MPS safety related research to mitigate safety risks.
• Co-ordinate and advise on operational safety and training related organisation learning including mitigating controls and to prevent recurrence.
• Influence positive operational behaviour changes to the MPS health, safety and well-being culture.
• Manage / co-ordinate the MPS response to major incidents and direct the SHRMT response including the 24 hour on call capability, including implementing the Joint Safety & Health Advisory Cell.
• Budget signatory and authorised financial decision maker.
• Development and monitoring of corporate and internal performance indicators.
• Development and implementation of corporate three-year safety strategy.
• Leading a team of senior professional officers, with a significant degree of professional flexibility and autonomy in their work, to achieve common goals and targets.
• Develop and lead strategies Influence positive changes to the MPS health and safety culture.
• Act as expert witness for the MPS.
• Lead the MPS on the safety implications and response to major incidents.
• Lead SHRMT response including the 24 hour on call capability.