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Safety Advisor (Apprentice)

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Posted 1 day ago

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Overview

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£14000 - £0

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Cromwell Road, London

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Organisation summary The world's leading museum of art, design and performance

Role Summary

  • Maintain a safe and secure environment for people, visitors, and collections.
  • Support existing safety team and study for safety qualifications.
  • Travel to other V&A sites in England is required.
  • Access all areas of V&A buildings for safety inspections.

Role Requirements

  • Proactive apprentice looking to start a career in health and safety.
  • Study for Level 3 Safety, Health & Environment Technician, and NEBOSH National General Certificate.
  • Ability to access complex sites.

The Role The V&A Security and Safety Department plays a vital role in maintaining a safe and secure environment for our people, visitors, and collections, across all V&A sites. We are seeking a proactive apprentice who is looking to start a career in health and safety. While supporting our existing safety team of two safety advisors they will study for a Level 3 Safety, Health & Environment Technician, and a NEBOSH National General Certificate. Based at the V&A in South Kensington the role will involve travel to other V&A sites in England. The V&A's sites are large and complex, the ability to access all areas of our buildings including basements, plantrooms, workshops, laboratories, roofs, and construction sites is an important part of the role. The V&A The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:

To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.

Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.

Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.

To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.

Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.

Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.

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