🚀 Health and Safety Auditor

You will pro-actively deliver VetPartners’ internal health and safety (H&S) audit programme across the Midlands, to be mainly based around the Nottingham / Leicester area. Completing site visits and reviewing levels of compliance with H&S; you will provide advice and support. Working in all fields within the veterinary sector, you will support small animal, equine and farming veterinary practices. Keeping in regular contact with practices in your area, and acting as the first point of contact for H&S queries, you will ensure practice teams are fully supported and guided on achieving H&S compliance.

Part of a wider team of auditors based around the UK, you will help to create supporting guidance to ensure that H&S legislation is understandable and achievable for practice teams.

This is a part‑time role, to work 22.5 hours a week across 3 days.

Responsibilities

• Independently monitor and deliver the internal VetPartners audit programme within regional area
• Engage with practices to review audit findings and provide advice face-to‑face and via video or telephone calls, with a flexible approach
• Develop positive relationships with practices to promote a proactive ‘practice‑led’ approach to H&S
• Provide tailored support to help practices where they need it the most, including risk assessments, COSHH, fire safety etc.
• Work with the wider H&S team to identify trends, challenges, and areas for improvement of our health and safety management system
• Attend and participate in team meetings, sharing knowledge and experiences
• Work with the H&S team developing our policies, guidance and template documents
• Monitor the H&S inbox and provide day‑to‑day support with H&S queries
• Complete fire risk assessments for lower risk premises

Qualifications

• Experience or strong knowledge in H&S practice, or veterinary experience is an advantage but not essential
• Formal qualifications in H&S are not required; we welcome career‑chasers and people with non‑traditional backgrounds
• Excellent interpersonal and IT skills, with a pragmatic approach to safety
• Right to work in the UK, without sponsorship; you will need to be based centrally in the Midlands to visit practices regularly

Company Overview

Founded by vets for vets in 2015, VetPartners has numerous veterinary practices: Small Animal, Farm, and Equine – in the UK we have 8,000 colleagues working in around 550 sites from our Central Support Office in York. The group also has practices in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands, and is anticipating further growth in 2025 and beyond. VetPartners aims to be a great place to work, focusing on the development and wellbeing of its team.

Benefits

What we can offer in return (pro rata):

• Salary of £22,000 pa for 22.5 hours a week across 3 days (around £36,500, FTE Pro rata)
• Pro rata of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Health Shield – a health cash plan that helps you budget for everyday health needs and gives discounts with supermarkets and other retailers
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave
• Ability to buy/sell up to 2 weeks holiday
• £250 CPD allowance per annum