The posting
🛡️Compliance Officer (DCO) 📍 Hugh Baird College, Liverpool 🕓 Full-Time | Permanent 💷 £30,000-£35,000 🌴 40 days holiday + 8 bank holidays FTE 💼 LGPS Scheme 🎁 Access to Medicash and a wide range of staff benefits
Join an Outstanding Team
At Hugh Baird College, an Ofsted Outstanding provider, we are committed to inspiring, challenging, and transforming lives. Our students are at the heart of everything we do, and we foster a workplace where ideas are valued, creativity is nurtured, and professional growth is supported.
About the Role
Are you an ambitious, process-driven professional looking for a role where you can truly make your mark and fast-track your career? This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a brand-new, highly visible post designed for someone ready to take their development to the next level.
As our Compliance Officer – Health, Safety & Data, you won't simply maintain records and processes. You'll play a vital role in building and developing the systems, registers, dashboards, and assurance tools that help the College demonstrate compliance, manage risk, and drive continuous improvement. Working closely with the Director of Health, Safety and Compliance, you'll become a trusted first point of contact, coordinating everything from health and safety records, audits, inspections and training compliance through to data protection registers, information rights requests, and information governance processes.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity, following issues through to completion, and using information to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement. You'll help ensure that the College's compliance records are accurate, audit-ready, and capable of providing meaningful assurance to senior leaders.
Whether you're stepping up from an administrative, compliance, governance, health and safety, or data-focused role, we are fully committed to investing in your development. Inter
Please note that interviews for this position will be held between 2nd and 4th December 2026.
Interested candidates are advised to apply early, as the vacancy will close once the right candidate is found.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and develop the College's Health & Safety and Data Compliance systems, registers, dashboards and audit trails, ensuring records are accurate, current and compliant.
- Coordinate and administer Freedom of Information (FOI), Subject Access Request (SAR) and other information rights processes, ensuring statutory deadlines are met.
- Support Health & Safety compliance by maintaining records relating to accidents, incidents, RIDDOR, training, audits, inspections, DSE, PEEPs, first aid and fire safety.
- Monitor compliance performance, identify gaps, overdue actions and emerging risks, and provide reports and assurance information to support decision-making.
- Coordinate compliance training, audits, inspections and action plans, ensuring recommendations and corrective actions are followed through to completion.
- Support the implementation of Health & Safety, Data Protection and Information Governance policies, providing first-line compliance support across the College.
Essential Criteria
- Experience working in an administrative, compliance, governance, health & safety, information governance, data protection or risk management role within a complex organisation.
- Experience maintaining compliance records, registers, trackers, audit trails or monitoring systems.
- Experience handling sensitive, confidential and personal information with a high degree of accuracy and discretion.
- Experience coordinating actions, monitoring deadlines and ensuring tasks are completed within required timescales.
- Experience supporting audits, inspections, investigations or compliance assurance activities.
- Excellent organisational, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to identify issues, follow up actions and build effective working relationships.
Please see attached person specification for the full criteria
Rewards and Benefits at Hugh Baird College
Why Join Hugh Baird College?
When you join us, you become part of a caring and supportive community that prioritises employee wellbeing, development, and recognition. Here are some of the benefits available to you:
Generous holiday allowance
Up to 50 days annual holiday allowance, excluding bank holidays.
Flexible Working
We offer flexible working options depending on the business need, which can provide a better work-life balance for our employees.
Medicash
Access to Medicash’s health plans which are designed to look after you and your family by boosting your access to treatment and support.
Pension Scheme
You will have access to two of the best pension schemes in the country, the Teachers' or the Local Government Pension schemes, depending on your role with us.
Professional Development
We are committed to providing continual professional development, with both formal and informal opportunities designed to enhance your skills, knowledge and career growth.
Industrial Commercial Updates
Our teachers receive 35 hours per year to choose a commercial operation to visit with a view to bringing new innovative ideas back to the College.
Reward and Recognition
Our 'Get Recognised' employee reward scheme enables continuous acknowledgement of employee contributions, and our annual staff celebration event highlights colleagues who consistently embody our values.
Lifestyle Fitness Gym
You will have discounted access to our fully-equipped and modern on-campus Lifestyle Fitness gym.
Health and Wellbeing
You will have opportunities to take part in staff groups such as yoga, walking and meditation. You will also have access to Mental Health support and a Cycle to Work scheme.
Travel
You can take advantage of discounted rail travel or bus travel, interest-free season ticket loans for public transport services and free on-campus parking.
Retail Discounts
You will have access to offers to cashback and discounts at well-known retailers.
Blue Light Card
You may be eligible to apply for a Blue Light card, giving you access to exclusive discounts.
