Join our Team

We are hiring!

Hosking Associates is a growing consultancy and we are looking for the right types of people to grow with us and join our team. We provide Safety, Health and Environmental Services. We strive to empower our clients ultimately encouraging them to become self-sufficient. We are a forward-thinking consultancy offering flexible opportunities in this diverse and constantly changing industry.

If you’re an experienced Health and Safety professional with a proven track record and you believe you can make a difference to any business we might send you into we would like to hear from you. Whilst we are always interested in speaking with associates, we prefer to hire permanent consultants to help us build strong, trusting relationships with our clients.

Exciting paid internships are also available, so if you’re a bright and energetic individual interested in joining the team at Hosking Associates please contact us.

Current vacancies

Finance Assistant (part-time school holiday cover)

H&S professionals (part-time)

Environmental & quality consultants (part-time ISO9001 & ISO14001)

If you’re interested in applying for a position at Hosking Associates, please scroll to the end of the page to submit your CV and cover letter.

Job descriptions

Finance Assistant

We are looking for a new crew member to join our Business Support Team. The role is part-time school holiday cover, based at our central St Albans office.

• Are you a great organiser, self-motivated, flexible and a team player?
• Do you have strong admin skills, good work ethic, excellent communication skills and eye for detail?
• Can you use Quickbooks and the full Microsoft Office Suite (ideally advanced level of Excel)?
• Do you have good IT knowledge, office admin experience and business-related qualifications?

Flexible hours, competitive salary + benefits

Due to the nature of our client base, you would be subject to a criminal record check. For a similar reason, we also have a strict no-smoking policy during the working day between 9am and 5.30pm.

When applying, please specify Finance Assistant

Health & Safety Management Consultant

If you enjoy a good challenge, have a genuine desire to coach, support and empower businesses of any shape or size to achieve safety & health happiness we are looking for you.

We are seeking a charismatic problem solver, obstacle remover and solution finder to become a part of our small, hardworking team working alongside modern forward-thinking organisations to help them achieve aims and objectives you will assist them in realising.

• Do you have great communication skills and enjoy being part of a team?
• Can you create convincing, high-quality well-reasoned reports and written work?
• Are you responsive and able to multi-task?
• Do you relish project management and collaboration to create processes and arrangements which save time and provide a positive impact
• Can you do great risk assessments and know how to apply OSH law in a positive, encouraging manner?

If the answer is yes, you are based in the South East and are either in the process of achieving NEBOSH Diploma or already hold it we would like to speak with you.

Hosking Associates is experiencing an exciting period of growth. Established clients are winning awards and new customers are joining us. We aim to deliver robust, pragmatic arrangements in a manner we believe is unique to our sector. We can offer variety and a wide range of OSH experience to the right person.

We can offer part-time positions with flexibility around other commitments for the right person.

Location

Ideally located in Northern Home Counties, North/South London or Surrey with occasional travel within the UK

Responsibilities

You will work with a wide range of clients, many of them within the property sector to achieve continual improvement. This includes developing robust management systems for clients in line with company processes and implementing these fully. In particular:

• Undertake initial reviews and create reports and action plans from these
• Assist clients with creating electronic and hard copy documentation management systems
• Ensure steering groups are organised throughout the year and facilitated
• Annually auditing clients via our Safety Ribbon standards
• Conducting interim checks and inspections for clients where required
• Organising and undertaking risk assessment work
• Creating operating procedures, templates and systems which will help clients to meet legal standards in line with company standards and existing processes
• Ensuring client policy documents are reviewed annually and have been created in the company standard where possible
• Training Others
• Helping clients create good systems for recording staff training and storing training information
• Making best use of available client time, planning this over the year and helping them to stay focused and organised. Staying aware of time availability with clients, ensuring their time is used proactively
• Ensuring client action plans are kept up to date
• Creating systems for clients so they can monitor internal incidents, accidents and near misses
• Ensuring client organisations develop positively over time
• Maintaining own CPD records and filing certificates
• Take personal responsibility for developing personal knowledge to provide excellence in all aspects, staying current.
• Provide consistent, reliable and correct advice
• Actively seek out new business and new client opportunities

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or NVQ Level 5 as a minimum
• NEBOSH Diploma or in the process of completing this (or equivalent)
• BIFM qualified FMs with a flair for Health, Safety and Environmental Management would be a great fit with us
• Qualified EHO’s equally welcomed

Experience and Capabilities

• Positive outlook, with a belief that any organisation with the right support can make safer, more responsible choices for their business
• Good project management skills
• Commercial awareness and practical outlook
• Problem solver rather than a problem finder
• Confident communicator and motivator of others
• Strong written skills – report writing is an important part of the role
• Capable of balancing priorities
• Ability to self motivate but also to work well within a team
• Experience of working in the property sector with property owners and managing agents would be desirable

Competitive salary + benefits

We are very keen on personal development and will support your CPD. You will also become part of our annual bonus scheme which is based on personal and company performance.

Due to the nature of our client base, you would be subject to a criminal record check. For a similar reason, we also have a strict no-smoking policy during the working day between 9am and 5.30pm.

When applying, please specify H&S Professional

Environmental & Quality Consultant – Part Time Role

We would like to hear from potential environmental consultants who enjoy working under their own initiative, like the flexibility working from home can offer and have a genuine desire to help organisations become more environmentally aware. If you are commercially minded, have a naturally positive outlook, are trustworthy, honest and have excellent communication skills we would love to speak to you.

Because our business is growing rapidly, we are also looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial flair who can support us and potentially take on senior roles in the future. If you feel you can offer us something new we’re listening!

We can offer part-time positions with flexibility around other commitments for the right person.

Location

Northern Home Counties or North London

Responsibilities

The role will involve you working with a wide range of clients some of whom have very few Environmental or Quality standards and others with established ISO accreditations. You will work alongside clients to undertake a review of their current standards and work with them to help them reach their goals and objectives. Specifically, this will include

• Undertaking initial reviews to determine clients current standards. Developing action plans from this to assist them in meeting their goals & objectives
• Auditing to our green ribbon standard
• Creating environmental management arrangements in order for organisations to achieve ISO14001 standards
• Assisting organisations with achieving ISO 9001 and ISO 50001
• Project managing ESOS compliance
• Candidates with a working knowledge of OSHAS18001 would be desirable
• Keeping clients updated with changes to Environmental legislation, best practice or standards as it affects them
• Creating and delivering relevant training courses
• Assisting with the promotion of Hosking Associates Environmental & Quality service – writing blogs and articles for our website and relevant trade journals
• Creating new business opportunities
• Providing clients with a really great service

Qualifications

• A relevant degree as a minimum
• AIEMA Associate level membership

Experience & Capabilities

• Positive outlook, with a belief that everyone with the right support can make greener, more responsible choices for their organisation
• Commercial awareness
• Confident communicator and motivator of others
• Strong written skills
• Capable of balancing priorities
• Ability to self motivate but also to work well within a team
• Experience of having successfully implemented ISO 14001 & ISO 9001 and gaining these accreditations

Competitive salary + benefits

All consultants should be prepared to contribute to developing our client base by following up on referrals, developing contacts, use of social networking and by giving a great service.

We will support your CPD and you will become part of our annual bonus scheme which is based on personal and company performance.

Due to the nature of our client base, you would be subject to a criminal record check. For a similar reason, we also have a strict no-smoking policy during the working day between 9am and 5.30pm.

When applying, please specify Environmental & Quality Consultant

Associate Consultant

We have a great relationship with our associate consultants who provide support at particularly busy times and with training. If you feel you can offer us something different please contact us with your current CV and details of your daily rates.

When applying, please specify Associate Consultant