Hi Will. Not for me, and I did quite a bit of recruiting. Not a fan of CIEH, don't think it is that relevant to H&S. Equally, I wouldn't reject either.

Relevant additional memberships / qualifications for me would be around teaching, coaching, ergonomics, legal, marketing etc.

Getting to an interview is the first step, so selling what you do have, such as relevant qualifications as you mention, but also make most of any transferable skills at all - sales, training, communication, marketing, investigation, report writing (or just writing for some!), IT, stats, first aider, evidence that you are a personable individual able to get on with all types, any experience where you have been a coal-face worker (having had to wear PPE, use lifting equipment etc) all of these add up.

You must have had some kind of work beforehand. Draw out what you can from this.

There are different styles of CV to suit those with less experience or to limit focus on qualification, best to source good guidance on this. If applying for jobs in the public sector, the non-cv online applications are a right pain, but do offer opportunity to say how you fit the 'person spec' which may suit your situation better.

Good luck, good hunting.

As a long-standing member of both CIEH & IOSH, I've been able to compare the two. Would I join CIEH if I was starting again? No (but I'm not going to state my reasons publicly).
I have only kept my membership because I'm self-employed & might need to consider a local authority or food auditing contract at some point in the future. IMHO it's my Environmental Health degree that's considered more valuable than my membership of CIEH.
If you're hunting for H&S jobs, in whatever sector, stick with IOSH.

Will, You can join a variety of associations, with your level 6 NCRQ certificate, however unless you have some experience or want to expand into that particular area, then it could be a very expensive way each year just for the sake of a certificate.

why don't you look at widening and complementing your H&S qualifications with say for example doing a Foundation Certificate from the Institute of Industrial Accident Investigators ? Or Doing an Environmental management course Via IEMA or similar, These are all branches that some H&S managers have covered and should prove to be more popular to a company looking to take on a Health & Safety professional.

I did an Internal Auditors course ISO 14001:2015 and this was to compliment my Role as H&S manager for a few Engineering Companies that i work for, The Industrial Accident course was also something which looked good when discussing experiences and qualifications with businesses.

So keep it in line with what your going to do, and you'll be surprised how much interest you'll get.

Will,

Get your CV done, and get some of the more experienced guys on here to go through with you in case you need to make amendments. Once you've got a Bullet Proof CV, Then its time to sell yourself.

What Kind of H&S do you want to cut your teeth into?? Once you know you need to target companies and send them your CV and Letter. If your really keen to try and make it in H&S then go self employed, as opposed to trying to get a full time job and offer to do a few hours a week for different companies.

Soon you will be asked to work a bit more and hopefully make enough hours to make it worth your while. Another angle you could look into is helping companies with their CHAS accreditation, A lot of smaller firms will not be so lucky to have the benefit of a full time H&S adviser, so look at this and perhaps this could be a step in the door for you.

Especially with Building Companies and self employed contractors

But you need to decide what kind of H&S you want to do

Hope i've given you a few ideas to play with

thanks Gerry, Graham for advice.

modified my cv a little with bullet points etc and got my first interview tomorrow with a large building company in Manchester area. with any look
i might get a start in H&S and gain some experience then i can increase skills.

thanks will

hi Darren thanks for advice currently looking at doing the ISO 14001 course online with audit mentor its a bit pricey at £420 but its accredited from iema not sure if it will improve my chances of getting interviews since passing ncrq cert only had 1 interview .

dont seem to be getting many interviews think it is due to my lack of experience i have ncrq,ptlls iema foundation cert etc but dont have the work experience to back the qualification's up.

also sent application to join iema as a associate which hopefully will help me somehow.