Health & Safety Officer

Health & Safety Officer
Permanent
Full time (34.5 hours)
Location: Macmillan London office (SE1)
Salary Range: £38,500 - £42,500  – benefits and recognition 

About us 
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. 

About the role

You’ll be responsible for the day‑to‑day delivery of Macmillan’s health and safety arrangements, acting as a trusted source of professional and competent advice, technical support and practical guidance to teams across the charity. You’ll help us comply with UK health and safety legislation, manage incidents and statutory reporting, and maintain clear and effective governance and assurance arrangements.

You’ll support audits, risk assessments, safe systems of work and incident investigations, helping teams to understand risks and take the appropriate action, whilst continuing to build capability across the organisation through clear communication, training and coaching. Working closely with Facilities, as well as the wider enabling functions directorates such as; People & Culture, Technology, and Finance & Operations, you’ll ensure health and safety is embedded into everyday working practices.

What you’ll be doing

• Acting as a competent health and safety practitioner, advising managers and teams, in a clear, supportive and practical way.
• Managing incident reporting, RIDDOR notifications and statutory duties, ensuring issues are followed up and learned from.
• Maintaining risk assessments, documentation and organisational oversight, so information is up to date, accurate, and accessible.
• Supporting audits, inspections and continuous improvement activity, helping turn findings into clear and practical actions.
• Coordinating first aid, fire safety and emergency arrangements, so colleagues know what to do and feel prepared.
• Producing clear reports, dashboards and updates for governance and assurance, that highlight risks and provide key insights and trends.
• Building capability through guidance, training and professional communication, helping people feel confident and enabled to do the right thing.
• Working collaboratively with internal teams, suppliers and external bodies, providing constructive challenge when necessary.

About you

You’ll bring strong working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and HSE guidance, with either a Tech IOSH (or equivalent) status or NEBOSH General Certificate. You have experience providing professional health and safety advice, managing incidents, supporting audits and enabling compliance in a complex environment.

You’re calm under pressure, solutions‑focused and able to influence with credibility. You use data and insight to inform decisions, and you balance legal compliance with practical, proportionate approaches.

What you’ll help us achieve

• Sustained compliance with legislation and HSE guidance
• Clear, reliable assurance that risks are identified and managed
• Improved organisational confidence in safe working practices
• A positive, proportionate health and safety culture across Macmillan

Join us and help create a safe, supportive environment where colleagues and volunteers can do their best work for people living with cancer

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.