Health and Safety Manager

Hours of Work: 35 per week

Closing date: 5th December 2025 

Interviews: 16th December 2025 

About Us 
We’re a values-led, social housing provider that believes work should be meaningful, enjoyable, and balanced. Our culture is collaborative, supportive and forward thinking. We care about people - our teams, our customers and communities - and the impact we make together.  Agile working and work-life balance aren’t just buzzwords here; they’re part of how we operate. If you’re looking for a role where you can make a real difference and still have time for the things that matter most to you, you’ve found it. 

The Role 
We’re looking for an experienced Health & Safety Manager to lead our approach to colleague health and safety. You’ll ensure compliance and best practice across the organisation while helping us embed a positive, proactive safety culture that supports our values and our people. 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Leading on all aspects of health and safety strategy and compliance. 
  

• Developing practical, engaging policies and processes that work for everyone. 
  

• Partnering with teams to make safety part of everyday thinking. 
  

• Driving continuous improvement and innovation in H&S practices. 
  

• Leading our H&S team 
  

About You 

You’re an experienced H&S professional with strong knowledge of legislation and best practice.  You’re proactive, adaptable, and confident in influencing at all levels.  You care about people and understand how to balance safety with a positive working environment.  You’re comfortable working in a dynamic, values-driven organisation. 

What We Offer 

A culture that values people and purpose.  Agile working options to support flexibility and balance.  Opportunities for growth and development.  A supportive, inclusive environment where your voice matters. 

Ready to join us? 
If you’re passionate about health and safety and want to work somewhere that truly values its people, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us keep our people safe and thriving. 

What you will get 

• Essential car user allowance to support you with car running costs 

• Flexibility on where you work with home working kit provided  

• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays plus a holiday a buy scheme.   

• Company DC pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions  

• Company funded access to a health cash plan for those everyday health treatments including optical, dental and much more.  

• Enhanced sick pay  

• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives   

• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.  

• Learning and development support  

• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism, LGBTQ+, disability and long-term health conditions, carers, and menopause. 

MSV are committed to Equality and Inclusion all applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role; however, we encourage candidates to submit an ammonised CV if they can do so.  

MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this. 

Interviews are scheduled to take on new date however interviews may be carried out throughout the recruitment process and the role closed if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore, we strongly recommend candidates to apply early.   

We’re passionate about inclusion and we’d love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.  

If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role, but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether or not you are what we are looking for. 

We own and manage almost 9,000 homes across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire and pride ourselves on being a housing association that retains our original values and missions and continues to deliver a range of housing solutions to the most vulnerable in society. For MSV our main priority has, and always will be, to deliver and build on the services we provide as a social values organisation. We embrace equality and inclusion and are genuinely focussed on people. We want better life chances for our people, we work with customers to strengthen our business and we want to see fewer homeless people and people in poverty.