Health & Safety Lead


Company:	Cornerstone (Aberdeen)
Salary:	£50,700 to £53,357 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Dundee
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 3 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	15 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

A national role with the opportunity to shape health and safety across Cornerstone.

We have a great opportunity for an experienced health and safety professional to influence practice at a national level.

Working with colleagues across our organisation you'll strengthen governance, improve consistency and develop practical approaches to managing risk.

Based at our Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen office, this role offers hybrid working alongside regular travel across our services and locations. You'll work closely with teams across Cornerstone, building relationships and providing visible, practical health and safety leadership.

About the role

At Cornerstone, our purpose is to enable the people we support to live valued lives in their communities.

As our Health and Safety Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring our approach to health and safety supports this purpose while meeting our legal and regulatory responsibilities.

You'll be Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, helping colleagues understand legal requirements, manage risk effectively and embed a positive, proportionate safety culture.

This is a broad and influential role, combining strategic oversight with practical support. You'll help shape and continuously improve Cornerstone’s health and safety framework, providing assurance that our policies, systems and practices are effective, proportionate and compliant.

You'll help translate legislation and good practice into approaches that work in the context of our services and play an important role in using data, audit findings and incident learning to identify risks and drive meaningful improvement.

Key responsibilities

Act as Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, providing expert advice and guidance across the organisation.

Maintain and continuously improve health and safety policies, systems, procedures and guidance.

Develop and deliver audit, inspection and assurance programmes, identifying areas for improvement.

Provide practical advice on risk assessments, safe systems of work and legal compliance.

Analyse health and safety performance data and produce clear reports, trends and recommendations.

Support incident investigations, root cause analysis and organisational learning.

Work with managers to implement effective, proportionate and sustainable health and safety practices.

Support engagement with regulators, inspectors, insurers and professional advisers.

Contribute to the development and delivery of health and safety training and capability-building programmes.

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