Health and Safety Programme Coordinator

Do you want to work on one of the most exciting transformation projects in the public sector?

The Defence Housing Service (DHS) is being created through the Armed Forces Bill to deliver a step-change in housing for the UK’s Armed Forces and their families following the publication of the Defence Housing Strategy on 3 November 2025, which marked the most significant change to Armed Forces housing in over 50 years. DHS will bring a dedicated focus to improving the homes, communities and lived experience of Service personnel, placing families firmly at the heart of everything it does.

This is one of the most ambitious housing transformation programmes in the UK today. Backed by a £9.2 billion investment, DHS will modernise tens of thousands of homes, introduce a more proactive and customer-focused approach to maintenance, and unlock new opportunities to develop housing on Defence land. DHS will have the focus and agility to deliver change at pace, combining public service values with greater flexibility to build the skills, systems and partnerships needed for the future.

This is a rare opportunity to be part of shaping its culture, influencing how it works, and helping deliver lasting improvements for Service families across the UK.

The Defence Housing team is currently part of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), who respond to the evolving needs of our military personnel, and the ways in which they live, work, train and deploy. We are proud to be the expert partner Defence needs for all their infrastructure requirements. From large scale infrastructure projects such as runways for the F35 fighter jets to net carbon-zero accommodation for our Service families, our activities focus relentlessly on our customers, and our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe! DIO , What we deliver every day.

The future delivery model for this team is currently under review and may change as part of potential organisational developments. This could include the team or function transferring to a different employer or organisational structure in the future. Should activities transfer out of the Ministry of Defence existing employees transferring with those activities will maintain the same or substantially the same terms and conditions of employment.

As a Health and Safety (H&S) Programme Co-ordinator, you can choose to be based at any of the locations listed at the start of the advert. You'll play an important role in supporting the DHS Health and Safety Team, including the Head of H&S. You will help ensure that housing and accommodation services are delivered safely, compliantly, and with the wellbeing of both employees and residents in mind.

Working across DHS and alongside industry partners, you will help maintain high health and safety standards across properties, contractor activities, and day-to-day operations. You will key to supporting colleagues by helping to create a safe and healthy working environment.

You will be operating and maintaining the management system, including the improvement plan, risk register, legal and compliance register, and incident investigation records. You'll manage the SharePoint site and support the analysis of health and safety information, such as assurance activities, risk assessments, training records, and performance data.

As part of a small team of safety specialists covering areas such as environmental health, fire safety, and construction safety, you will help promote a positive health and safety culture across DHS. This includes monitoring risks, supporting performance reporting, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in how health and safety is managed and delivered.

This is a varied role that requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to build positive working relationships. Predominantly office or home based, you'll need to work independently, managing competing priorities, and know when to escalate issues to the appropriate people.

What you'll be doing

• Maintaining the DHS Safety Management Systems (SMS) including the policies, standards and guidance.
• Maintaining the DHS H&S risk register, legal register and H&S plans.
• Providing support to incident investigators and ensure investigations, incident data, immediate and root causes etc. are all captured and monitored on the DHS systems.
• Liaising with Suppliers and other stakeholder and ensuring incident data is reported and captured on the DHS system.
• Maintaining and managing all H&S improvement actions stemming from non-compliances and non-compliances.
• Maintaining the H&S SharePoint site ensuring policies, standards and guidance are up to date.
• Publishing updates and news articles.
• Supporting the H&S Team preparing reports, presentations and training.
• Maintain and monitor relevant H&S records of employees including first aiders and appointed persons, fire wardens, lone workers, health surveillance records and similar.

To be successful with your application, you'll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Experience of working in an administrative role.
• Experience of engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge and demonstrable use of MS Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, etc.
• Knowledge of data management and security of digital information.

Please input your CV into the Employment History section on the Civil Service Jobs, ensuring it clearly demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

Whilst this role is advertised as a full-time position of 37 hours per week, we recognise the benefits of flexible working and are open to discussing part-time hours, job share arrangements, or other flexible working patterns with suitable candidates. Regular in-person attendance is required (this is expected to be approximately 60% of your working week) to promote the benefits of face-to-face collaboration alongside flexibility of hours to support work-life balance and business need. Initially, you may be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with the site, the team, and your role.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

• 25 days’ annual leave plus one day a year up to 30 days after five years, and eight bank holidays
• An extra day off to honour the sovereign’s birthday
• Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible to support your work-life balance - attending site a few days each week will be required and encouraged, depending on your role and team.
• Market-leading employer pension contribution of around 28.97%
• Enhanced parental leave schemes
• Recognition awards
• Access to specialist training and funded professional qualifications
• Support for progression
• Huge range of discounts – plus more!

Job contact :

• Name : NAD Group Talent Acquisition Team
• Email : NAD-TalentAcquisition@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : NAD-TalentAcquisition@mod.gov.uk

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