Health Safety & Wellbeing Adviser

Job summary

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

At HM Treasury, we are seeking a dedicated and driven Health Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to join our Health Safety & Wellbeing Team. This role covers a wide range of responsibilities and has significant impact. You will have an outstanding chance to improve our staff's wellbeing and safety. As a key member of our team, you will work on ambitious initiatives and apply effective strategies to ensure smooth implementation of our health and safety protocols

Job description

This is a standalone role that provides the role holder the opportunity to support the HM Treasury expert (lead) embed and deliver health and safety initiatives and support the implementation of workplace adjustments and wellbeing initiatives to all members of the Treasury.

Working closely with the leads for Health and Safety and Workplace Adjustments the successful role holder shall be contributing to the timely and effective delivery of services and support for HM Treasury employees.

Certain duties in this role shall involve physical exertion in terms of lifting, carrying, moving furniture, equipment and/or training materials.

This post is based in Darlington. The role holder is required to be on site at least 60% of their working week, to carry out aspects of the role in person. Occasional travel to other office locations in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Norwich will be required.

Key Accountabilities – Health Safety and Wellbeing Adviser

At HM Treasury, we are seeking a dedicated and driven Health Safety & Wellbeing Adviser to join our dynamic Health Safety & Wellbeing Team. This role covers a wide range of responsibilities and has significant impact. You will have an outstanding chance to improve our staff's wellbeing and safety. As a key member of our team, you will work on ambitious initiatives and apply effective strategies to ensure smooth implementation of our health and safety protocols.

• Assisting our staff with workplace health and safety activity risk evaluations, display screen equipment assessments (DSE), pregnancy, lone working and workplace modifications, including occasional referrals to occupational health.
• Carrying out detailed Health and Safety Risk Assessments to recognise potential threats and introduce effective steps to lessen risks.
• Assisting and coordinating the delivery of workplace adjustments for employees with disabilities and health conditions. This includes triaging, referrals, coordinating equipment, record-keeping, and collaborating with colleagues across the department and external organisations.
• Ensuring that fire wardens and Treasury evacuation procedures are fit for purpose, guaranteeing staff safety during evacuations. This includes compliance checks and effective provision of evacuation chair services.
• Keeping and routinely checking all training records, including fire wardens, first aid, mental health first aiders, and required health and safety training, making sure they remain current.
• Applying strong organisational expertise and meticulous attention to detail when preparing purchase orders and managing credit card receipts for health and safety-related acquisitions. Ensuring every transaction is finalised accurately and on time.
• Delivering health, safety, and wellbeing sessions through induction, workplace adjustment training, and other relevant programmes, with the responsibility for managing training administration.
• Providing project management support to ensure the effective delivery of services, including data entry, analysis, and production of reports for training and absence. This supports effective service planning and continuous improvement of the service.
• Monitoring the health and safety secure inbox, answering queries from staff, providing advice, giving relevant information, procedures, policies, and advising on standard methodologies.
• Coordinating wellbeing activities for staff, gathering feedback, and supporting the implementation of new wellbeing ideas to ensure programmes are as effective and engaging as possible.
• Collaborating across teams internally and externally to continually improve the services and capitalise on the use of technology, such as AI.

Having health and safety knowledge is strongly preferred, and your role will be essential in upholding our staff's wellbeing at a top-tier level. Join us and contribute positively at HM Treasury!

Useful to have:

It would be helpful if Candidates would have a National Examination Board in Occupational Safety & Health (NEBOSH) National General Certificate or be prepared to work towards completing an appropriate qualification within 6 months of joining.

Candidate Drop-In Session

The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session to give you greater insight about the role and HM Treasury and ask any questions you might have. If you would like to join us, use the link below to join the call at the right time.

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/367204985044598?p=x0CN7Puv2MnrZNePg1

Monday 11th May at 13:00

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact Edna Robinson at edna.robinson@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Person specification

Application Stage

Application Form

Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 250-word statement demonstrating evidence of each of the below shortlisting criteria. Your CV and employment history won’t be scored. It’s used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.

The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria below for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

1. Managing a Quality Service: Working with stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations, creating clear plans and priorities to meet the needs of stakeholders and the business.
2. Making Effective Decisions: Ability to look at complicated information, weigh up different options and clearly explain your recommendation. Take responsibility for making effective and fair decisions in a timely manner, talking to relevant people to support decisions, and factoring in the diverse needs of end users.
3. Communicating and Influencing: Ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders and break down complicated information. Express ideas clearly and with respect for others, responding constructively to questions and handling challenging conversations with sensitivity.
4. Technical Skill - Experience of working in Health and Safety, and in assisting in the provision of workplace adjustments made for individuals.

The lead criterion is: Managing a Quality Service

If we receive a high volume of applications, we’ll first sift using the lead criterion only. Those meeting the minimum score will then be assessed against all remaining criteria.

Interview Stage

If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Technical Skills: Health & Safety and/or workplace adjustment skills
• Strengths
• Behaviours: Managing a Quality Service, Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing

Interview Task / Presentation

Prior to your interview, we will contact you about a task / presentation that the panel would like you to deliver as part of the assessment. Further details will be communicated to you nearer the time.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Health & Safety and/or workplace adjustment skills

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £29,280, HM Treasury contributes £8,482 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Generous Annual Leave - 25 days (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus public holidays and the King’s birthday.
• Outstanding Pension Scheme - Defined Benefit pension with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Parental Leave Packages - Including 6 months’ occupational pay for maternity/adoption, shared parental leave options.
• Flexible & Hybrid Working - Options include part-time, job-share, compressed hours, flexitime, and hybrid working (where business needs allow).
• Advance Schemes & Discounts - Rental deposit, cycle-to-work, SmartTech, season ticket loans, and access to HM Treasury’s benefits portal for a wide range of discount codes.

You can review HM Treasury’s full offer here.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

For this role, experience is not assessed at any stage. We will ask for some CV details in your application form, but this is for reference only and will not be scored.

Candidate Guidance

Please review the candidate guidance for an overview of the Success Profiles and STAR approach, along with top tips for applications and interviews.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: 21st May 2026 before 23:55
• Shortlisting: w/c 1st June 2026
• Interviews: w/c 15th June 2026

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile.

Reserve Lists

You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a role immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be posted in merit order by location. You will be asked to provide your location preference on your application form. Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer.

If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Those on the reserve list may also be approached for similar roles at a lower grade. If you are offered a role at a lower grade and choose to decline, you can remain on the reserve list.

Internal Fraud Database Check

Candidates cannot apply to roles in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Successful candidates will be subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database. This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This also applies to those who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the database will be refused employment.

National Security Vetting

Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, successful candidates will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Counter-Terrorist Check.

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. You will be asked to provide residency information within your application form, and eligibility for national security vetting will be checked once the advert closing date has passed. In certain circumstances, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case-by-case basis once the advert closing date has passed.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Edna Robinson
• Email : edna.robinson@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Further information

Complaints Process: Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email at: hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.

Attachments

459299 Health Safety & Wellbeing Adviser Role Profile Opens in new window (pdf, 143kB)