🌟Join Us as a Health & Safety Trustee:
Protect People, Shape Culture, Transform Life Chances! 🌟
Are you passionate about creating safe, supportive environments where young people can learn and thrive? Do you have the expertise to guide a Trust in maintaining high standards of safety, compliance, and wellbeing? As a Health & Safety Trustee, you’ll play a crucial strategic role in ensuring that every school within our Trust is a secure place for pupils and staff to flourish.
This role is your opportunity to make a Trust-wide impact, shaping the systems, cultures, and decisions that keep our communities safe every single day.
As a Health & Safety Trustee, you will:
Champion a Culture of Safety: Use your experience to influence the Trust’s policies, practices, and strategic decisions, ensuring health and safety remains a priority across all schools.
Strengthen Compliance & Assurance: Provide oversight of statutory responsibilities, risk management, safeguarding practices, and site safety, helping the Trust stay compliant and confident.
Support and Constructively Challenge: Offer professional insight to senior leaders, helping them make informed decisions and embedding best practice across the Trust.
Promote Wellbeing for All: Contribute to discussions around staff and pupil wellbeing, mental health considerations, and inclusive practices that support safe access to education for every learner.
Collaborate at Board Level: Work with fellow Trustees to ensure that safety considerations underpin wider strategic planning, resource allocation, and operational effectiveness.
What We’re Looking For:
You may come from backgrounds such as health & safety management, compliance, estates, facilities management, risk, emergency planning, or safeguarding and boast strong experience in these fields. Experience in education is a bonus, but absolutely not essential.
What matters most is your:
- Commitment to ensuring safe, supportive school environments for young people
- Experience in health & safety, risk, or compliance
- Ability to analyse information and communicate it clearly to non-specialists
- Willingness to dedicate time for Board meetings, preparation, and occasional school visits
- Openness to learning, collaborating, and contributing as part of a diverse governance team
We value individuals from all backgrounds and lived experiences, you don’t need to have worked in schools to care passionately about keeping them safe.
Why Become a Health & Safety Trustee?
Meaningful, Purpose-Driven Impact: Play a key role in shaping safe learning environments across multiple schools, positively affecting the lives of pupils, staff, and families.
Opportunities for Growth: Develop your governance and strategic leadership skills while working alongside experienced Trustees and leaders.
Make a Difference Beyond Compliance: Help foster a culture of safety, wellbeing, and continuous improvement, where people feel supported, valued, and able to thrive.
Real Community Contribution: Give back in a role that directly supports public safety, wellbeing, and educational opportunity.
If you’re ready to use your expertise to help create safe, thriving school communities and make a meaningful difference across our Trust, we’d love to hear from you. Step into a role where your insight protects people - and helps shape brighter futures.