Health & Safety Compliance Officer

Health & Safety Compliance Officer
Fixed Term Contract (6 months)  
Full time (34.5 hours)
Location: Hybrid / London Office (SE1)
Salary £36,000 - £39,000  – benefits and recognition 

About us 
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Macmillan Cancer Support is looking for a highly organised and proactive Health & Safety Compliance Officer to help strengthen our health and safety governance, documentation and assurance. This is a fixed‑term role focused on delivering the actions arising from our recent KPMG Health & Safety Audit and embedding improved processes into business‑as‑usual activity.

About the role

You’ll play a key role in coordinating audit actions, improving documentation, and supporting the implementation of revised health and safety controls. Working closely with the Health & Safety Officer and Senior Facilities & Health & Safety Manager, you’ll maintain accurate audit trackers, gather evidence, support reporting, and help ensure compliance improvements are delivered on time.

Alongside audit delivery, you’ll provide operational support across day‑to‑day health and safety activity — helping maintain records, coordinate risk assessments, track actions and support continuity of statutory duties during periods of pressure or absence.

What you’ll be doing

• Coordinating and tracking actions from the Health & Safety Audit
• Maintaining accurate documentation, evidence and audit action logs
• Supporting the development and rollout of revised processes and controls
• Assisting with risk assessments, incident follow‑up and record keeping
• Preparing progress updates, dashboards and reports for senior leaders
• Supporting meetings, action tracking and governance activity
• Providing operational cover for statutory health and safety duties when required
• Working collaboratively with Facilities, People & Culture, Risk, Technology, Legal, Procurement and other teams

About you

You’ll bring a solid understanding of UK health and safety legislation and HSE guidance, along with a NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent) as a minimum. You have substantial experience in health and safety, compliance or assurance roles, and you’re confident coordinating actions, maintaining accurate records and supporting audit or improvement activity.

You’re organised, detail‑focused and proactive — able to manage multiple priorities, communicate clearly and build strong working relationships across teams. You take a practical, solutions‑focused approach and are comfortable working within defined governance and escalation frameworks.

What you’ll help us achieve

• Timely delivery of audit actions and compliance improvements
• Stronger documentation, assurance and governance
• Increased resilience in statutory health and safety activity
• Better consistency and confidence in safe working practices across Macmillan

Recruitment Process 
Application deadline: Thursday 28th May 2026
First interview dates: tbc

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. 

We are an organisation that is committed to setting candidates up for success, so we can support you to be at your best during the application or selection process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice, or a conversation on reasonable adjustments.  

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.