Location: Dublin 1
Salary range: €65,000
Experience: A relevant Health & Safety qualification, at least five years’ experience, Full driving licence
Closing date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025
Description:
SVP is a large, national, voluntary organisation with extensive experience of working with a diverse range of people who experience poverty and exclusion. Through its network of volunteers and 700 staff, it is strongly committed to working for social justice and advocates the creation of a more just and caring society. SVP employs people to support volunteers in a variety of settings including housing, community care, shops, administration, and other specialist areas.
The Role:
We are currently looking to recruit a Health and Safety Officer to join our East Regional Office team in SVP House, Dublin 1. The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring that SVP's East Region meets all its statutory obligations in health and safety management across all its sites and operations throughout Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow and complies with all SVP health, safety and environmental policies.
This is a great opportunity to join one of Ireland’s largest voluntary organisations and make a difference in your community.
Candidate Requirements:
- Relevant qualification or degree in Health & Safety or a related field.
- Essential to have at least five years’ experience working as a Health and Safety Officer.
- Understanding of statutory requirements on health and safety in sectors relevant to this role (Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Regulation, Housing Regulations, HIQA regulations etc)
- Knowledge and understanding of risk assessments, risk registers, safety auditing, safety inspections and data gathering and reporting.
- Strong interpersonal, communications, listening and influencing skills with the ability to build relationships.
- Ability to communicate across all levels of the organisation with stakeholders.
- An excellent team player with ability to work on own initiative.
- Demonstrate resilience and work with diverse stakeholders to achieve objectives
- Good administration skills, (MS Office, spreadsheets, CRM, Database admin etc.) and proven ability to analyse and present numerical data into management reports.
- Full driving licence and have access to own transport.
Desired but not essential:
- Broad experience in health and safety management – both office-based and field experience
- Experience working in large multi-activity organizations.
- Experience in safety management in construction and maintenance.
- Experience in an advisory role in the non-profit or social sector
- Knowledge and understanding of HIQA regulations
- Ability to use resources effectively
Appointment is subject to satisfactory references. Canvassing will not be accepted and may lead to disqualification. Due to the large volume of applications, we are not in the position to provide individual feedback to candidates who are not shortlisted.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are interested in being considered for this position, please apply as soon as possible as the role may be closed in advance of the date shown above due to high volume of applications.
SVP is an Equal Opportunities Employer