Health & Safety Business Partner

Health & Safety Business Partner:

• Part time (up to 30 hours/week)
• Exciting role working closely with senior leaders
• This role would suit someone who enjoys working with a business, building trust, and improving outcomes through influence and expertise
• c. 50k
• Bicester, Oxfordshire

We are recruiting a Health & Safety Business Partner to join an established, mature H&S environment within a growing, multi-stakeholder business. This is a consultative, advisory role, not a build-from-scratch position.

The role partners closely with senior leaders and department managers to maintain, enhance, and continuously improve existing health, safety, and compliance arrangements. The emphasis is on guidance, assurance, and collaboration, helping the business to continue to operate safely, compliantly, and confidently.

Key focus areas:

• Acting as a trusted adviser to managers and the C-suite

• Providing proportionate assurance and insight on H&S performance

• Supporting managers with risk management, compliance, and incident review

• Facilitating the Health & Safety Committee and contributing to Board-level reporting

• Coordinating training, emergency preparedness, and continuous improvement activity

• Line management of a part-time H&S Administrator

Key requirements include:

• NEBOSH General Certificate (or higher)

• Strong working knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation; environmental knowledge beneficial

• Experience operating within established H&S frameworks (e.g. ISO 45001 / HSG65)

• Proven track record in business partnering, advisory, or consultative H&S roles

• Confident influencing senior stakeholders.