Location: Westminster, London.
As Deputy Director of Parliamentary Safety, you’ll play a pivotal leadership role within the Parliamentary Safety Team (PST), helping to shape and deliver the strategic direction for safety across the UK Parliament.
Working at the heart of the House of Commons, you’ll operate in a uniquely complex and high-profile environment, ensuring that safety is embedded consistently, proportionately and effectively across both Houses. This is an exciting opportunity to influence safety culture at scale, supporting a major transformation programme in one of the most recognisable institutions in the world.
Job overview
Reporting to the Director of Parliamentary Safety, you will lead the development and implementation of the Parliamentary Safety Strategy and oversee the operational, construction and assurance safety teams. You’ll be responsible for driving excellence in the Safety Management System, ensuring alignment with ISO 45001, and embedding robust health and safety arrangements across the organisation.
Acting as a visible and influential leader, you’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, providing expert advice, strengthening governance, and ensuring safety remains a clear and consistent priority.
This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, with an expectation of you spending 40% of your time in the office. Find out more about working at the House of Commons.
Person specification
- Qualifications: A relevant professional qualification, such as NEBOSH Diploma, NVQ Level 5/6 in Safety or degree in a safety related discipline and significant experience in construction and/or facilities management areas. CMIOSH certification or working towards/ equivalent. Experience of successfully managing relevant ISO systems e.g. ISO:45001. ISO accredited Internal Auditor or willingness to obtain within the first year.
- Ability to build strong collaborative partnerships at all levels and create a teamwork environment to achieve organisational goals, taking the initiative as required and upholding and embedding the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion at all times.
- Significant experience of leading and managing a large team in a complex, multi-site organisation and successful leadership of a professional multi-disciplinary safety team.
- Ability to communicate clearly, confidently and persuasively with people at all levels, both orally and in writing.
- Demonstrable experience of leading and driving process and operational improvement, collecting, analysing and presenting data in a compelling way to aid managerial decision making, developing and implementing proactive safety approaches, innovating, through the use of technology and delivering measurable and sustainable results.
- Demonstrable experience of managing stakeholders in a sensitive and political environment with the ability to understand their requirements and to provide effective solutions to meet these.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £73,806, House of Commons contributes £21,381 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including but not limited to:
- Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 after one full working year.
- Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%.
- Flexible working options that help you find a balance including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave, caring leave and alternative working patterns.
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Selection process details
How to Apply
- CV & Supporting Statement – If you would like to apply for this role, please submit your anonymised CV and covering letter with an 500-word limit.
More information on the application process can be foundhere: Application process - UK Parliament.
Additional Information
Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.
Please note, the salary package for this role is expected to include a Market Sector Allowance in addition to the advertised salary range, with the exact amount to be confirmed.
We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window). See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is not regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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