Application Deadline: 23 October 2026
Department: Estates
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Wigan & Leigh College
Compensation: £42,540 - £45,119 / year
37 Hours per Week | Permanent | All Year Round
Good health and safety isn’t about creating more paperwork. It’s about understanding where the real risks are, putting effective controls in place and giving people the confidence to manage them well.
As our Health and Safety Manager, you’ll be the College’s competent source of professional health and safety advice. You’ll provide leadership, challenge and assurance across our campuses, curriculum areas and operational services, helping us maintain arrangements that are safe, proportionate and effective in practice.
You’ll work with managers to build their confidence and capability, rather than taking responsibility away from them. You’ll help us understand where our biggest risks sit, test whether our controls are working and make sure significant issues remain visible until they are resolved.
And there is plenty of variety. Our environment includes classrooms, engineering and construction workshops, laboratories, specialist facilities, public spaces, contractors, events and major estate activity. Different environments bring different risks, so professional judgement and proportionality really matter here.
This role would suit an experienced health and safety professional who combines technical credibility with practical judgement, strong systems thinking and the ability to bring people with them.
Practical. You turn legislation and professional standards into arrangements people can understand and use.
Proportionate. You focus attention where the risk is greatest rather than creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
A coach. You build managers’ confidence and capability rather than creating dependency on the health and safety function.
Independent. You give honest professional advice and constructive challenge, including when the message isn’t easy.
Curious. You look beyond what happened to understand why it happened and what needs to change.
Clear. You can explain complex risk, technical and legal information in a way that helps people make good decisions.
Credible. You build trust with managers, senior leaders, employees, trade unions and technical specialists.
Persistent. You make sure significant actions remain visible until the risk is properly controlled.
A college is a fascinating place to lead health and safety.
Every day, people move between classrooms, workshops, laboratories, specialist facilities and public spaces. Contractors work across our estate, projects change our buildings and new equipment, technologies and activities are constantly being introduced.
That makes this much more than a compliance role.
You’ll have the opportunity to influence how health and safety works across the whole organisation. You’ll work with Estates, curriculum teams, HR, senior leaders, trade unions, contractors, consultants and governors, and your professional advice will help shape decisions about our people, buildings, activities and projects.
We want health and safety to be understood as part of good management rather than something owned by one specialist team. If you enjoy developing people as much as advising them, improving systems as much as checking them, and turning professional standards into practical everyday arrangements, this could be a very good fit.
Great people. Change lives.
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Please complete our application form in full. We can’t accept CVs.
Health and Safety Manager. Apply now.
