Health and Safety Consultant

• Pivotal role, providing Health and Safety advice and expertise for one of the UK's most trusted Financial Services providers


• Utilise your consulting experience to make an impact


• Field-based position working from home and visiting clients' premises across the North West (M6 corridor)

About the role



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



Health and safety is a key focus of our RMS function and we're looking for a skilled Health and Safety Consultant to join the North West 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, including agriculture, forestry, estates, manufacturing, engineering, and other commercial organisations. This 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 North West region. You'll mainly be traveling to clients along the
M6 corridor, between Preston and Carlisle , and surrounding areas. We try and keep our consultants within a 2-3 hour drive from home, but more significant travel will be required on an ad hoc basis across the UK.



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 a breadth of industry sections, 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 wide range of customers from all walks of life.



You're self-motivated, target-driven, and used to working towards KPIs, open to learning new information to drive your performance, and the performance of others. Your ability to write high-quality Health & Safety reports and assessments sets you apart. 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


• An understanding or awareness of complex risks across industries such as agriculture, farming, construction, manufacturing, etc. - Desirable


• To hold or be working towards a relevant qualification to support your technical knowledge, such as CertIOSH, NEBOSH Diploma, or equivalent


• To be working towards or hold chartered status (CMIOSH) - desirable


• Excellent written communication skills - essential, and to be assessed at interview


• A customer-focused approach and strong stakeholder engagement skills


• The ability to use Microsoft Word to produce a high-standard of work - filling out templates, formatting documents, proof-reading, editing

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 depending on experience and performance at interview


• 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 organisations, and for over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we're proud to be recognised as "a great place to work".



Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We've also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 - and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.



Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of "Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK", and we've been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.



We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for 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're successful now and in the future.