The post holder is appointed to act as a competent person to provide professional expert guidance and advice on Health and Safety matters. They will be required to support all levels of the organisation as required under relevant statutory provisions.
The postholder will be required to exercise their unique professional judgement to influence decision making at all levels, enacting, and ensuring the Trust can meet compliance or mitigate risks. They will be involved in supporting with the development of a Health and Safety strategy, comprehensive policy framework and associated learning requirements to ensure it can demonstrate compliance with Health and Safety Legislation. In doing so, the postholder will be accountable to The Director of Operations for Resilience, Acute Flow and Transformation in the systematic identification, recording, evaluation, and mitigation of risks arising from non-compliance with statutory legislation relating to the management of Health and Safety within the Trust, focusing on the delivery and maintenance of standards. The postholder will work closely with wholly owned subsidiaries who provide security services at the Trust making sure that the Trust is compliant with any security related Health and Safety legislation.
Is guided by legislative requirements to ensure compliance with health and safety
• Ensures patient and staff safety by advising senior management on the provision of a safe place of work, safety systems of work and safety within premises.
• Works to deliver performance against a robust Health and Safety Management Strategy and contributes to the Health and Safety Annual Report.
• Leads or participates in working groups that are formed to address issues on aspects of Health and Safety and completes actions plans through task and finish groups.
• Leads the production of policies and procedures with regards Health and Safety and reviews and updates these within deadlines
• Liaises directly with and has working knowledge of other Health Care disciplines, such as Occupational Health, Infection Control and Medical Devices Management.
• Contributes to the development of a Health and Safety annual work plan that is overseen by the Directorate.
• Undertakes Health and Safety audits and risk assessments for the Trust and through service-level agreements with Trust partners.
• Ensures investigations take place in relation to reported incidents or system failures in relation to Health and Safety arrangements.
• Carries out the investigations for Health and safety incidents, as necessary.
• Makes recommendations for risk mitigations and controls. Scrutinises and acts upon all relevant adverse incident and investigation reports
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Professional Duties
· Enhance own performance through continuously developing own knowledge, skills, and behaviours to meet the current and future requirements of the job and respond to the learning needs of the Trust.
· Maintain own continuous professional development and contribute to own personal development by participating in annual appraisal with line manager, developing a development plan and actively participating in agreed learning activities and evaluating effectiveness of learning in relation to role.
· To achieve and demonstrate agreed standards of personal and professional development with agreed timescales.
· To contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the teams in which he/she works.
Managerial Duties
• To indirectly line manage the PCSO whilst they are on site. Full line management will remain the responsibility of West Yorkshire Police as per the contract.
This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Dec 2024
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