Health and Safety Consultant

Health and Safety Consultant

• Another chance to apply - Additional headcount added!
• Pivotal role, providing Health and Safety advice and expertise
• Field-based position working from home and visiting clients’ premises, with focus in Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Leicestershire

About the role

As an NFU Mutual Health and Safety consultant, you’ll belong to a Risk Management Services team that has helped business owners reduce and manage commercial risk for over 30 years.

Health and safety is a key focus of our Risk Management Services function and we’re looking for a skilled Health and Safety Consultant to join the East region. The team delivers a tailored health and safety consultancy service, helping customers to comply with legislation, and help prevent accidents for their staff, customers, and the public. You’ll be working across a wide range of industries such as commercial, agriculture, retail, estates, and leisure; an excellent opportunity for you if you thrive on variety.

You’ll establish and maintain strong relationships with clients, other Health and Safety Consultants, and Industry and regulatory bodies, to ensure the effective achievement of goals and promotion of NFU Mutual Risk Management Services.

A crucial part of this role is producing clear, professional, and practical reports that help our customers understand their risks and take meaningful action. Following site visits and remote surveys, you’ll produce high quality Health & Safety reports, audits and action plans that accurately capture your findings and provide prioritised, proportionate recommendations.

Your reports will translate complex Health & Safety legislation and risk information into clear, client-driven guidance, setting out what action is required, why it matters, and realistic timescales for improvement. Using defined systems, templates and frameworks, you’ll ensure all written outputs are to a high standard, within SLA, and meet NFU Mutual’s professional standards.

This is a field-based role, requiring you to work from home to complete administrative tasks and travel to clients across the Midlands and East region. (Oxfordshire, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire focus)

This role is known internally as an RMS Health & Safety Consultant.

If you like working with a variety of clients, this could be the right opportunity for you.

About you

You’re an experienced and confident Health & Safety professional, ready to make a real difference for our clients. With a strong background in providing consultancy and advice across commercial environments—including farming and agriculture—you bring detailed technical knowledge of current Health & Safety legislation, risk management, and loss prevention practices. You’ll have a flexible and effective communication style, enabling you to work well with and adapt to a variety of customers, across different industries.

You’re self-motivated, target-driven, and used to working towards KPIs. Your ability to write high-quality Health & Safety reports and assessments sets you apart, and you’re comfortable engaging with a wide range of stakeholders. Effective time management and flexibility are second nature to you, and you always put the customer at the heart of what you do.

To join us, you’ll need:

• A full UK driver’s licence – essential
• To hold, or currently be working towards, NEBOSH Diploma, or equivalent - Essential
• Proven experience in a Health & Safety role, ideally in commercial and agricultural settings - desirable
• Excellent written communication skills – essential, and to be assessed at interview
• A customer-focused approach and strong stakeholder engagement skills

If you’re passionate about making workplaces safer and want to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary: £50,000 - £55,000
• Company car or car allowance
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us.

We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction but also named us as the first UK-based company to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace for ten years in a row. We are also the only Insurer to feature in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of ‘Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK’, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024 and 2025.


We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

Leicester

We have over 300 local Agency offices across the UK who look after existing customers and attract new ones.

Vacancy managed by

Jenny Bruerton