Summary

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Safety and Risk Senior Specialist.

This is a Full Time, Permanent post, with hybrid working.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of the following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, and Bristol.

Salary

National - £39,590 pro rata

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.

What you will be doing

As our Safety and Risk Senior Specialist, you will Lead on the development of the health, safety and fire risk management systems within Historic England (HE) helping ensure compliance, continual improvement and effective risk management.  You will act as a subject matter expert providing specialist advice and training on health and safety risk management, maintaining the organisations web-based health and safety risk management software system and conducting periodic audits of health and safety practices. You will deputise for the Head of Health and Safety as necessary.

Who we are looking for

• NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent  

• Previous experience in a similar role 

• Experience of writing and developing concise and user-friendly health and safety, management policies and procedures 

• Experience providing health and safety guidance on small construction projects 

• Experience of the management of health 

• Experience of supporting managers undertaking health and safety risk assessments and developing safe systems of work 

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries. 

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: 1st October 2025

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/pb5lvsrl/zw-safety-and-risks-senior-specialist-jd-aug-25.odt