Health & Safety advisor apprentice

Closing date: 19th September 2024

Start date: January 2025

Location: London

Qualification gained: NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management

This is a unique opportunity to learn from experienced practitioners & business leaders while contributing directly to the development of our safety management framework, programmes and initiatives. 

The Safety, Security and Resilience team is responsible for delivering business-sensitive safety, security and incident management support and advice to executive leaders, senior managers, editors, producers and staff across News UK. 

As an Apprentice Health & Safety Advisor, you will study towards your NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma for Occupational Health & Safety Management qualification, whilst receiving in-house mentoring and coaching and gaining hands-on experience.

You will be joining our team of passionate professionals to develop your skills, knowledge, and technical application among a diverse set of business areas and environments; offices, studios, outside broadcast, and production locations.

During your time with us, you will earn above living wage, and get full training, with all your course fees paid. You will also receive mentoring from the industry’s best, as well as any other equity you might need to fulfil your full potential. 

What you'll be doing

• You will provide business-wide operational support, advice and guidance, taking the approach to actively engage business stakeholders, build awareness, and promote ownership among business leaders and line managers. 
• Provide advice and guidance
• Produce risk assessments
• Assist wider business in risk assessment development processes
• Monitor and administrate the Occurrence Reporting scheme 
• Oversee the investigation of accidents, incidents and near misses
• Produce data reports and provide analysis 
• Conduct office, studio and production inspections 
• Liaise with stakeholders to identify training needs
• Deliver training such as new starter inductions, Fire Marshal, Manual Handling, Risk Assessment, and Toolbox talks.
• Prepare Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans
• Carry out New and Expectant Mother risk assessments
• Assist with policy development 
• Co-chair Health & Safety Committee meetings
• Support with roll-out of mental health agenda 

What we’re looking for from you

• A passion for pursuing a career in health & safety
• NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety
• Five GCSEs grade 4-9 (A*-C), including Maths and English
• Excellent communication skills and comfortable engaging with people across a variety of business areas and at different levels
• Be able to work independently and on initiative, as well as being able to collaborate as part of a wider team
• Be organised and methodical in your approach to work and problem-solving 
• Have experience of working in the media, news, or production sectors
• Commitment to the course and completing all modules and assignments 

Application process 

Online Application > Google Meet Interview> Assessment day

As part of the Online Application process, we would like you to provide answers to our application questions that explain why you want to join News UK and answer the following 3 questions:

• Tell us about yourself and why you have applied for this Apprenticeship?
• Tell us about an experience of dealing with a challenging risk that required you to influence others to achieve successful implementation?
• How do you stay current with UK legislation and best practise?

Please note assessment centres will be taking place during November 2024.

To find out more about apprenticeships at News UK, click here.

We are News UK

One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive.  Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like.  Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.  

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I  strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks. 

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes: 

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
• Physio/massage, 
• Counselling 
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.  

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.

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