Health and Safety Lead

Higham Gobion, England, United Kingdom

4/17/2025

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We are excited to announce we have a new role available at Davies Veterinary Specialists. We are seeking an experienced Health & Safety Lead to drive safety improvements across our veterinary hospital. In this role you will have the opportunity to develop your skills working along side a diverse and dedicated team on an incredible 14 unit site. You will work closely with the central support teams regional health & safety manager. This role is a part-time role working 24h per week over 3 days on site.

This role will play a key part in fostering a culture of safety and inclusivity, ensuring that operational teams integrate best practices into their daily routines. You will act as a subject matter expert (SME), translating complex legislation into practical, effective solutions, leading on health and safety strategy, audits, managing risk and delivering compliance with all current legislation and best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure adherence to ISO 45001 principles, industry standards, and statutory inspections.
• Keep up to date with new legislation and maintain a working knowledge of all the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and any developments that affect the business/industry
• Work closely with the facilities manager and management team to develop and implement effective H&S policies and management systems
• Carry out regular site inspections to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented across all areas of the business, working closely with the facilities manager.
• Fire Safety & Risk Assessments: Manage fire actions and conduct fire safety reviews.
• Incident Investigation: Support the investigation of accidents and incidents, making recommendations to prevent recurrence. Continuously promote H&S reporting to ensure that all accidents are reported and logged and that investigations and audits are properly documented.
• Audits & Inspections: Conduct occupational health and safety audits to monitor and improve performance.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with the Hospital Manager, SLT, Facilities Manager and operational teams to implement safety measures effectively. Work closely with the regional Health and Safety Manager.
• Chair the quarterly H&S meetings.
  
  

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience: Minimum 2 years’ experience in a multi-site/multi-disciplinary health and safety role
• Knowledge & Skills
• NEBOSH Certificate in Health and Safety
• Strong understanding of Health, Safety, and Fire regulations.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across the practice.
  
  

About us:

Davies Veterinary Specialists is one of the largest and most diverse, small animal veterinary referral centres in Europe, with a team of over 200 people. We are situated in the beautiful Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire countryside, within 50 minutes of London by train. Founded over 25 years ago, Davies is recognised as a leader in the veterinary referral sector offering a diverse range of multi-disciplinary services. We are also known for our pioneering sustainability initiatives within the industry, having gained the Investors in the Environment Green Award and won several other awards.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Wellness program including:
• Employee assistance program
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Free annual Flu jab
• Cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme.
  
  

Part of an amazing global family

Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.

Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.

Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.

Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates.

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