HEALTH & SAFTEY ADVISOR RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN – EDINBURGH & INVERNESS

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Welcome

Dear Candidate

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity with the National Trust for Scotland.

If you have an affinity with the heritage of Scotland – both natural heritage and built heritage – this position offers truly outstanding job satisfaction.  As the fourth largest landowner in Scotland, you would expect to find a plethora of interesting properties – and the NTS delivers in spades with over 1500 individual buildings including: 35 visited Castles and Historic Houses, including a Royal Palace, 270 listed buildings, battlefields which changed the course of history, ancient monuments, 300 residential properties and 50 holiday cottages.  There is no other organisation in Scotland with as wide a remit to care for cultural, built and natural heritage.

If that wasn’t sufficient to whet the appetite and to highlight the fantastic work the National Trust for Scotland is involved with on a day-to-day basis, I should perhaps also mention a few more fascinating facts about the NTS – 76,000 hectares of Scotland’s iconic countryside, 11,000 archaeological sites, St Kilda (the UK’s only dual World Heritage Site), 10,000 miles of Scotland’s coastline, 46 Munros, 38 major gardens and designed landscapes, 300,000 precious artefacts, 8 National Nature Reserves, 45 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), 80,000 beautiful plants, 500 miles of footpaths and in excess of 4 million visitors are welcomed each year at our locations across Scotland.  All of which helps to generate a warm glow of pride to be involved with the activities of the Trust.

We have been modernising our structures, resetting our ambitions and are looking to appoint two exceptional Health & Safety Advisors to join our Health, Safety & Environment team, reporting to our National Health, Safety & Environment Manager.

If you have always hankered after the opportunity of working in and around amazing buildings in amazing places of outstanding beauty – this is your moment!  Based in Edinburgh or Inverness, your working week will be varied and will involve a degree of travel, with a Castle or Historic House or two thrown in for good measure along the way.

This is your opportunity to become involved in the Trust’s work with buildings and places that are not just valued by people living in Scotland, they’re of significance the world over.  Take a look at our web site to get a glimpse of what the National Trust for Scotland is all about:  www.nts.org.uk

We need the right appointments to these key positions, industry Health & Safety professionals ideally with a passion for heritage.  If you are looking for a diverse role and feel energised by the opportunity to work with an outstanding portfolio, please don’t delay in making contact.  This is an exciting time to join the team and to further develop a high performing culture.

I wish you well with your application.

Connie Lovel
Head of Commercial Enterprises & Estates

Established in 1931, the Charity is a major player in heritage visitor attractions, nature conservation and inclusion programmes that extend from the classroom to the great outdoors. At the heart of why it exists, the Charity seeks to unlock Scotland’s stories in ways that bring enjoyment and meaning into people’s lives. The whole focus is on experiences that are worthwhile rather than worthy. Visiting Culzean Castle, the Burns’ Museum, The Georgian House, Glencoe or Torridon all have qualities that are unique to each of them. But the National Trust for Scotland makes visits to all these and more consistently special.

Nestled amongst the hills, glens, highlands and lowlands lie some of Scotland’s most amazing buildings, and places of significant historical importance. With a membership of over 350,000 people, the National Trust for Scotland enjoys over two million visits a year to its iconic and stunning places and exists to ensure Scotland’s assets are protected, enhanced and maintained so people can enjoy them for years to come.

The charity is entirely independent but is acting ‘for the benefit of the nation’ in terms of its importance to international tourism, enabling local communities and managing vast amounts of outdoor space as the third largest landowner in Scotland. There is a new leadership team in place who blend commercial and conservation disciplines. The ambition is to provide the leading collection of heritage attractions to today’s visitors and an even bigger audience in the future.

The post-holder will support the National Health and Safety Manager (Operations) in offering a range of health, safety and environmental services (Health and Safety being the primary focus) to Operations Directorate and is the first point of contact for property management within their allotted property portfolio.

It will be a fundamental function of the post that the post-holder will develop a close and effective working relationship with the management within their allotted properties, including General Managers, Business Managers and Operations Managers (where appropriate). This will enable, and require, the post-holder to respond quickly to requests for assistance as well as becoming a relied upon and readily available professional HS&E practitioner to properties within their portfolio. They will become a key member of the planning/decision-making process.

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To discuss the role further please contact Roddy McCallum at Drummond Bridge, our retained advisors, on 0141 433 7973 or email [email protected]

Interested candidates should provide a tailored CV and covering letter to [email protected]

Please include email your preferred location in your application.

Drummond Bridge

The recruitment of this position is managed by Drummond Bridge