Title: Health & Safety Training Assistant
Contracts: Permanent, Full-Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Persona: Agile (20-40% in office and 3-4 days working from home)
Office Location: Stratford, London
Salary: £30,455 per annum
Role Profile - Health and Safety Training Assistant.docx
Closing date for completed applications: 27th April 2025 at 11:59 PM
**Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
Join Our Learning & Development Team
At L&Q, we’re committed to creating safer, better places to work and live. As a Health & Safety Training Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the delivery of health and safety training across the organisation, ensuring all colleagues have access to the knowledge and resources they need to maintain safe working environments.
- Do you thrive in a fast-paced administrative environment where precision and efficiency are key?
- Are you confident managing training schedules, systems, and providing outstanding customer service?
If this sounds like you, we’d love to see your expertise in action at L&Q!
Your Impact in the Role:
- Training Coordination & Support: Coordinate internal and external training courses, preparing materials, booking sessions, setting up rooms, and welcoming delegates.
- System & Data Management: Maintain and update the Learning Management System with Health & Safety training records, ensuring data accuracy for management information and reporting.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the main point of contact for training queries from internal and external stakeholders, providing clear guidance and support.
- Reporting & Process Improvement: Generate reports including KPIs, attendance, and evaluations. Support process streamlining and recommend improvements to ensure effective training delivery.
- Financial & Administrative Support: Manage booking processes, control budgets, raise purchase orders, and maintain accurate financial records aligned with procurement procedures.
What You'll Bring:
To excel in this role, you'll need:
- Awareness of Health & Safety Training Standards: Understanding of H&S training requirements, with experience working with awarding bodies (e.g., PASMA, CITB, IOSH) desirable.
- Administrative & Coordination Experience: Proven experience in coordinating and supporting Health & Safety training within fast-paced working environments.
- Excellent Communication & Collaboration: Confidence in engaging with colleagues at all levels and external partners, delivering clear and professional communications.
- Strong Organisation & Planning Skills: Ability to manage multiple priorities, training schedules, and documentation with excellent attention to detail.
- IT Proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience maintaining training systems and matrices.
Why Work for L&Q?
L&Q is not just a workplace; it's a community. Recognised as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women and certified as a Great Place to Work, we offer an environment where everyone can thrive.
The successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits, which includes:
- Generous Annual Leave: Starting at 28 days and increasing to 31 days after 3 years of continuous service.
- Excellent Pension Scheme: Double contribution up to 6%.
- Health Cash Plan: Claim money towards different types of medical services, and access other health and well-being offers
- Life Assurance: Generous non-contributory coverage.
- Employee Assistance Programme: Support when you need it.
- Recognition Bonus Scheme: Spot awards for outstanding contributions.
- Family-Friendly Policies: Designed to help you balance work and family life
- Diverse Networking Groups: Join groups like Ability, Kaleidoscope, Inspire & Spectrum.
- Volunteer Time: Up to 21 hours per year to volunteer with the charity of your choice.
- Learning & Development: Commitment to your professional growth.
If you’re passionate about training coordination, customer service, and improving workplace safety, this is your opportunity to make an impact—apply today!
As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.
Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with a commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.
At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q. More information about L&Q’s values can be found on our website and a copy of our behavioural framework can be provided on request.
Our commitments:
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.
We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and recognise the changing demands and circumstances in life. Please let us know during the recruitment process if you’re interested in part time working or job sharing. In addition, should your circumstances change once you have joined L&Q, you can also request flexible working arrangements, e.g. a change to working hours - if it’s feasible then we’ll make it happen.
We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.
We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.