Job Description

Health and Safety SSIP Assessor

Department: People

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cardiff, UK

Description

At Veriforce, we help companies in high-risk industries keep their people, worksites, and supply chains safe and compliant. As a global leader in contractor and supply chain risk management, our SaaS platform simplifies contractor onboarding, credentialing, and compliance while providing powerful analytics and insights. Beyond software, we offer expert support, training, and consulting so our clients can operate with confidence. Together, we’re making workplaces safer every day.

We’re looking for a Health & Safety SSIP Assessor to join our team, carrying out desktop-based assessments of contractors against recognised Health & Safety, compliance and SSIP standards.

You’ll review contractor submissions and supporting evidence, applying your Health & Safety knowledge and professional judgement to determine whether the required standards have been met before accreditation is awarded.

What that means day to day

As a Health & Safety SSIP Assessor, you’ll:

• Complete proportionate, risk-based desktop Health & Safety and SSIP assessments.
• Review contractor documentation, evidence and compliance information against defined assessment criteria.
• Apply UK Health & Safety legislation, industry standards and best practice when making assessment decisions.
• Review Health & Safety documentation and supporting compliance evidence.
• Make informed decisions on whether contractors have demonstrated the required standard for accreditation.
• Contact customers and contractors by phone and email to obtain information and supporting evidence.
• Clearly explain non-conformances and provide constructive feedback where improvements or additional evidence are required.
• Provide Health & Safety advice and guidance to customers.
• Produce clear, detailed and accurate assessment reports.
• Deliver excellent levels of customer service throughout the assessment process.
• Manage your workload while meeting expectations around productivity, accuracy, consistency and assessment quality.
• Work collaboratively with a wider team of Health & Safety professionals and contribute to continuous improvement.

What you’ll need to be successful

You’ll have a strong understanding of UK Health & Safety legislation and best practice, alongside experience applying your knowledge within a workplace environment.

You must have:

• NEBOSH General Certificate (Level 3) or an equivalent Health & Safety qualification.
• TechIOSH membership or eligibility to obtain TechIOSH membership.
• Minimum 2 years' UK Health & Safety experience gained within construction, engineering, manufacturing, facilities management, utilities, or another workplace environment.
• Understanding of CDM Regulations or experience working within construction environments is advantageous
• Experience writing, reviewing or working with Health & Safety documentation.
• Contractor-facing or customer-facing experience.
• Strong attention to detail and decision-making skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to explain Health & Safety and compliance requirements clearly to customers and contractors.
• The ability to effectively manage your workload while maintaining high standards of quality and consistency.

Experience within construction, engineering, facilities management, manufacturing or utilities would be particularly relevant.

What you'll get in return

We have a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office minimum 3 days per week.

We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:

Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits

>🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave

>🌴Generous annual leave, with the option to buy additional days

>🏥 Healthcare Plan

>💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community

>🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme

> 🚗 EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Future Planning

>💰Pension scheme with employer contributions

>🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary

>💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback

>🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development

Embracing AI at Veriforce

As part of our commitment to innovation and continuous improvement, we're actively embedding AI tools and ways of working across the business. We encourage all employees to explore how AI can enhance productivity, improve decision-making, streamline processes, and create value for our customers.

The effective adoption and use of AI will form part of role expectations and will be considered as part of regular objective reviews and performance conversations. We're looking for individuals who are curious, adaptable, and excited about leveraging technology to work smarter and drive better outcomes.

Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?

Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!

Bring Your Whole Self to Work.

We are proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.

What you can expect if you apply:

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:
• An initial discovery call with the recruiter
• A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
• Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.