Safety Specialist

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JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: SSR (Safety)
LOCATION: Can be based at any of the main offices (Salford, Glasgow, London, Belfast, Cardiff). This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £45,000 - £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

This role provides a specialist safety service as part of the BBC Safety Team, influencing and engaging with team leaders across the organisation to ensure high standards of safety performance and safety leadership for everyone at the BBC. This includes leading on the BBC Safety's role in supporting team leaders to meet the standards BBC sets for safety and the importance of its role in the overall success of the organisation. The role works independently to resolve complex queries and collaboratively as part of a wider specialist team to address strategic challenges and lead transformative safety initiatives across the organisation.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

BBC Safety works to enable, coach and assure BBC colleagues on their successful management of safety, and to ensure the business is meeting its obligations under the relevant regulations, standards and best practice. This senior position within the team, reporting to the Safety Manager, has a key role in shaping a resilient, purpose-driven organisation coaching leaders, influencing executive decisions, and assuring safety performance. Join a trusted team that champions innovation, collaboration, and continual improvement, supporting the broadcast of world-class content.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

As SSR Specialist, you will:

• Collaborate with the Safety Manager to assist with the execution of the BBC Safety strategy
• Provide second-line assurance by coaching business leaders, enabling safe decision-making, and assuring the effectiveness of safety systems and culture
• Lead on projects with colleagues in similar functions. Engaging with colleagues across all levels of the business to influence policies, frameworks and the safety success of projects and programs
• Promote a safer BBC for all our colleagues and partners by shaping strategies and standards and helping successfully embed them. You'll support team leaders with measuring safety performance, learning from insights, and developing Action Plans that will make a meaningful impact on worker safety
• Proactively shape strategic conversations with executive leaders and senior stakeholders to position safety as a fundamental driver of organisational performance and purpose. Supporting the delivery of the BBC's safety vision and mission through meaningful stakeholder engagement and by guiding key decisions that align with safety priorities
• Work collaboratively with and influence senior leaders to benchmark and ensure compliance with safety regulations, standards and industry best practice. This includes acting as a lead for BBC Safety and driving the wider network to continuously improve safety of the broadcasting industry
• Build and sustain trusted partnerships across the BBC and externally to co-create and deliver a purpose-led, risk-informed safety strategy

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Relevant specialist diploma or equivalent (e.g., NEBOSH, NCRQ) and professional institute membership (e.g., CMIOSH, CIEH)
• A talent for building positive relationships and influencing colleagues and senior leaders across the business and externally
• Excellent ability to coach and enable business leaders and teams to embed safety thinking, processes and behaviours
• Experience of working in a strategic safety role within a large and complex environment
• Great safety governance, compliance, communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to write compelling and influential reports, training and presentations to a high standard

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Demonstrate a collaborative, adaptable, and agile approach that is responsive to the values, motivations, and needs of executive stakeholders
• Be a recognised leader in safety culture transformation and human performance, with experience influencing at board or senior leadership level
• Exhibit professional curiosity and creative thinking to challenge conventional practices and promote intelligent risk-taking
• Communicate complex safety issues clearly and credibly across all levels, with the confidence to challenge constructively and the humility to listen

This role will require regular travel around the UK.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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