Health and Safety (CDM) Lead Officer

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced and forward‑thinking Health & Safety (CDM) Lead Officer to play a key role in ensuring safe, compliant and high‑quality delivery across Buckinghamshire Highways. This is a highly visible and influential position where your expertise in CDM Regulations 2015 and wider health and safety legislation will help shape safe working practices across the service.

As the subject matter expert, you’ll guide teams, strengthen our culture of safety, and champion collaborative working with our alliance partners to ensure that health and safety remains at the forefront of service delivery.

This is a part- time permanent position working 22.2 hours per week and the salary advertised will be pro-rata.

About us

Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally. 

Highways and Technical Services play a vital role in supporting our communities, keeping the county moving and ensuring our transport network is safe, resilient and well‑managed. We’re ambitious, collaborative and committed to continuous improvement. Joining our Highways & Technical Services team means contributing to essential public services and working with a range of internal and external partners to deliver positive outcomes for residents, businesses and road users.

As part of our ambition to deliver the very best highways service for Buckinghamshire, we have recently reshaped our service, creating a stronger, more resilient and forward‑looking structure. This transformation reflects both local priorities and significant national developments in the sector. With new initiatives emerging, including the introduction of Lane Rental and wider changes to streetworks and network management, we are now investing in a range of new and exciting roles that will help us meet the needs of our communities today and into the future. These posts offer a genuine opportunity to shape how we manage and improve our network, drive innovation.

About the role

As the Health & Safety (CDM) Lead Officer, you will provide expert guidance on compliance, drive improvements across the service, and support the full lifecycle of works commissioned by the service. You will act as a key liaison between internal teams, designers, contractors and alliance partners to ensure effective coordination of all health and safety matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert support an guidance to the service, ensuring our duties and responsibilities under the CDM regulations 2015 are complied with and that risks are managed effectively throughout the lifecycle of works commissioned and ordered by the service.
• Conduct risk assessments and implement measures to mitigate identified risks, ensuring that all foreseeable
• Prepare and maintain health and safety files, including pre-construction information, ensuring documentation is kept up to date.
• Monitor, investigate and report on incidents, near‑misses and overall H&S performance, ensuring effective follow‑up actions.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance to internal teams, contractors and external stakeholders, promoting safe and compliant practice.
• Research industry best practice, interpret emerging issues and present informed recommendations and reports to senior decision‑making groups.
• Develop and implement H&S policies, procedures, training and improvement initiatives to strengthen safety culture and service compliance.

About you

You will be an experienced health and safety professional with a strong background in the highways or construction sector, bringing expert knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and wider H&S legislation. Confident in assessing complex issues, you combine excellent analytical skills with the ability to develop practical, innovative solutions and implement effective risk‑management measures. You will be a credible and influential communicator, able to build strong relationships, coordinate partnership working and provide clear, specialist advice to a wide range of stakeholders. Your collaborative approach, commitment to best practice and ability to drive service improvements will ensure health and safety remains at the forefront of Buckinghamshire Highways' delivery.

You will hold an appropriate professional qualification and maintain active membership of a recognised professional body relevant to the highways or engineering sector.

Other information

For further information on this role please see the attached job summary.

This role requires face-to-face working, collaboration and meetings. The postholder will be expected to be in the office at least one day a week.

Closing date: 19th March 2026

Interview date: Week commencing 30th March 2026.

Interview type: In person.

If you would like to have an informal conversation with the recruiting manager, please contact: Christopher Anousis, Network Strategy Manager  ([email protected])

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions

For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro

We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While we welcome innovation, we expect all submissions to reflect your own experience, skills, and achievements accurately. Please ensure your application is truthful and demonstrates your personal capabilities, as this will be assessed during the selection process.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

About the Business Unit

Our Communities directorate works across the county to deliver a number of the key customer-facing services that our residents, businesses and visitors rely on every day. 

This directorate includes a wide range of services, including:

• collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
• maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
• ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
• managing Country Parks
• leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
• Licensing, Environmental Health and Trading Standards
• Cemeteries and Crematoria

The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment. 

We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created. Whilst making major changes to contracts affecting residents across Bucks, we continue to focus on delivering great customer service. You will join us on our journey of continuous improvement - whether that’s through developing strategies and ways of working or delivering services on the ground, every person in Communities is a valued member of the team.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.

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