Halfords

About us

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience-from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

About the role

We’re looking for a Health & Safety Specialist to help drive a positive, sustainable safety culture across the Halfords Group. You’ll take an active role in upskilling Colleagues, driving cultural change, and ensuring our safety processes are consistently applied to the highest standard.

This role suits someone who can demonstrate initiative and deliver on key projects whilst portraying real ownership of health and safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the completion, implementation and ongoing review of Group-wide health and safety risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Work closely with the Learning and Development team to create and improve online health & safety training content.
• Contribute to the development, rollout, and ongoing improvement of Group-wide health & safety strategies, policies, and procedures.
• Periodically visit local Halfords locations to engage with Colleagues to verify risk assessments, safe systems of work and training material.
• Always portray the correct safety behaviours and escalate matters to Health and Safety Business Partners or Operational Leaders when required.  
• Support Senior Health & Safety Business Partner in building strong relationships with key stakeholders within the wider Halfords Group.
• Play a key part in delivering the Halfords Group Health & Safety Roadmap.

About You

• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to work independently.
• Experience in a health & safety advisor or coordinator role.
• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent (NVQ 5) is highly desirable.
• Experience in producing risk assessments and Safe Systems of Work (SSOW).
• Experience in creating and delivering training materials is desirable.
• Flexible, proactive, and comfortable working in a varied environment.
• Proven ability to portray safety behaviours and identify risk.

Reward & benefits

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.
• We offer hybrid working in our Support Centre, you will be based at our Support Centre 3 days a week with an optional 2 days working from home. This role needs flexibility to go into stores when required. 
• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.
• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.
• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 3 days on site at our Support Centre in Redditch.