Health and Safety Engagement Lead WCC622706

Health and Safety Engagement Lead WCC622706

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Standard DBS Check
Closing date: 20 November 2025
Interview date: Week commencing 1 December 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HAYLEA'S UNBEATABLE SPIRIT

Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their optimism and talent to achieve more than anyone thought possible.

Nobody personifies this more than Haylea Navarro. Born with cerebral palsy and paralysed down one side since birth, Haylea has been gleefully proving people wrong ever since. Now a project officer, she brings faster broadband connectivity to Westminster businesses, boosting the economy for all. Throw in her gong at the 2020 London Apprenticeship Awards, and it's clear for all to see just what can happen when you never give in.

Please view the extraordinary story of Haylea's Unbeatable Spirit here.

The Role:

As a Health and Safety Engagement Lead, you can make your own powerful contribution to creating a safer, healthier, and more connected Westminster. You'll play a key role in embedding a proactive Health and Safety culture across the organisation - one that empowers staff, builds confidence, and ensures wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do.

As Health and Safety Engagement Lead, you will champion behavioural change and communication - inspiring ownership, collaboration, and engagement across our workforce to make health, safety, and wellbeing meaningful to everyone.

Working closely with the Head of Corporate Health and Safety, you'll help turn strategy into action. From developing and implementing the Council's Health and Safety Communications, Promotion and Engagement Strategy to designing campaigns that raise awareness and drive behaviour change, your work will inspire lasting cultural improvement. You'll collaborate across departments - including People and Culture, Workplace and Facilities Management, and senior leadership - to make sure every service area understands its role in maintaining safe, inclusive working environments.

You'll take the lead on initiatives that promote positive engagement and integrate Health and Safety into everyday business practice, from staff inductions and briefings to team development sessions. Using data and insight from engagement activities, you'll evaluate impact, identify areas for improvement, and shape future approaches. You'll also develop practical tools, guidelines, and training materials - including newsletters, communications, and awareness campaigns - to make safety messages clear and accessible.

This is a varied and hands on role that combines creativity, communication, and collaboration. You'll have the chance to influence leadership thinking, support colleagues across all levels, and help shape how Health and Safety is lived and experienced across the Council - building a culture where everyone takes ownership for keeping each other healthy and safe.

You'll bring a strong mix of technical expertise, leadership, and creativity to this role - with a proven ability to design and deliver Health and Safety behavioural improvement and cultural change strategies. You'll have hands on experience developing and implementing effective communications and engagement strategies and plans that bring Health and Safety to life across an organisation, supported by the ability to produce and monitor key metrics, KPIs, and detailed data evaluations to measure success.

You'll hold an Occupational Health and Safety qualification at EQF Level 6 or higher - such as a NEBOSH, NCRQ Diploma, or equivalent - and ideally be a Chartered Member of IOSH or a Full Member of IIRSM with active Continuous Professional Development (CPD). You'll also have the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels, from frontline teams to senior leadership, using clear communication, persuasive reporting, and strong presentation skills to influence and inspire change.

Analytically minded yet people focused, you'll be skilled in assessing and prioritising Health and Safety risks, turning complex data into actionable insights and accessible plans.

You'll also have experience managing and coaching others, promoting positive safety behaviours, and helping teams embed best practice across diverse working environments.

Most importantly, you'll bring enthusiasm, integrity, and a genuine commitment to creating an inclusive and proactive safety culture. Your ability to translate Health and Safety principles into meaningful, practical action will make you a trusted voice in driving Westminster's vision.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

We are committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from under represented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three quarters of a million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best - that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.