Health & Safety Business Partner

Health & Safety Business Partner

Impact Food Group

At Impact Food Group, we’re more than just a school caterer. We’re on a mission to create a positive food culture and help more students enjoy healthier, better-quality food. Making a positive social impact is at the heart of everything we do. We’re constantly learning, evolving, and improving — every way, every day.

Through our industry-leading brands — Innovate, Hutchison, Cucina, and Chapter One — we cater for over 550,000 students and operate in more than 900 schools nationwide, growing every year.

We’re now looking for a talented and highly organised Health & Safety Business Partner to join and play a vital role in supporting our business.

Guided by our values, integrity, bold, impactful, humble and community; you will help us shape a workplace and culture we can all be proud of.

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This is a regional role and will involve regional travel across schools in the South East (Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Essex, London) and on occasion national travel, supporting our sites (Catering) across England. You will be joining a growing a brilliant team that is making a real impact on the success of Impact Food Group.

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Can you...

Role Responsibilities:

• Providing assistance to the Safety Director in the management of all matters relating to food safety, health and safety and food allergen safety across the company.
• Actively working to create and improve positive safety culture within the specific area of responsibility.
• Collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure that we can provide the safest workplaces and complaint working environments.
• Creating, promoting, motivating excellent food safety, health and safety and allergen management through various initiatives across the company.
• Acting as a trusted advisor on all food safety, allergen management and health & safety matters
• Demonstrating a broad understanding of safety standards, requirements and issues allowing for mutually agreeable and fit for purpose solutions.
• Ensuring that Impact Food Group complies with its legal obligations and achieves its strategic aims to minimise the risks to our employees and organisation.
• Providing guidance and assurance that safe systems of work are in place.
• Being responsible for completion of audits, inspections, investigations, and risk assessments.
• Alongside the Safety Director you will, play an active role in leading the continual improvement in H&S performance through monthly reporting, management meetings, delivering training and communicating information in user-friendly language that is engaging.
• With your professional qualifications and established experience within Food Safety and Health and Safety, you will bring new ideas and innovative ways of working safely and supporting people’s wellbeing.

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Skills & Experience

• It is Essential that you have at least NVQ L4 in Food Hygiene and NVQ L5 Health and Safety
• 2 years' experience working within a Food Safety/ Health and Safety position.
• A background in a Food Safety environment as a manager covering multiple sites would be advantageous.
• Desirable qualifications include a BSc/MSc in Environmental Health
• An understanding and experience in working within a contract catering or retail catering environment is desirable.
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Excellentand organisation skills

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If you’re a collaborative, solution-focused professional who thrives in a busy and purposeful environment, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and be part of a team that is transforming lives through the power of food, making a genuine difference for students across the UK.

What we can offer...

Monday to Friday working

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Access to IFG rewards (money off high street)

Yearly Summer Party

Centrally based offices.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Impact Food are committed to the safeguarding of children, and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, which Innovate Services Ltd supply the cost for.

We are a committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail within your application. All information is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.