To support the senior colleagues to lead on the development of the health and safety agenda for Trust, including supporting the completion of risk assessments, delivering competent advice, training staff and managing the Trust Health and Safety Risk Register
To provide training, management, leadership and support to all Trust staff in Health and Safety to ensure the organisation maintains aneffective and pro-active health and safety management culture
To work alongside the senior colleagues to develop and maintain robust systems, including policies, procedures and risk assessments and to ensure that the Trust is compliant with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
The work in partnership with the Divisions and oversee the delivery of Divisional Health and Safety functions by ensuring effective co-ordination of risk management work streams
The Post Holder is expected to have an exceptionally high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Together with senior colleagues, to oversee the provision of professional expertise, advice and guidance on all matters relating to Health and Safety and act as the nominated “competent person” for the Trust on all aspects of Health and Safety
To support the co-ordination of specific health and safety workstreams for the Trust and acting as the lead in reporting outcomes to relevant committees.
To support the delivery of a programme of visits across the Trust for carrying out audits and assessments and following up health and safety related incidents
ORGANISATIONAL COMMITTMENT
Our Vision is: “We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual’s quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support”.
In order to achieve our vision we want our employees to feel valued and have a strong sense of engagement as we believe engaged staff help provide better services for patients and service users.
Our commitment as an employer & in accordance with the NHS constitution is to provide you with:
1. Clear roles and responsibilities and a rewarding job so that you can make a difference to patients, their families and carers’ and communities.
1. Personal development, access to appropriate training for your job and line management support to succeed.
1. Support and opportunities to maintain your health, wellbeing and safety; and an environment free from harassment, bullying or violence.
1. A good working environment with flexible working opportunities, consistent with the needs of patients and with the way that people live their lives.
1. Fair treatment that is free from discrimination.
1. Opportunities to engage in decisions that affect you and the services you provide, individually, through representative organisations and through local partnership working arrangements.
1. Opportunities to enable you to be empowered to put forward ways to deliver better and safer services for patients and their families.
Provide expert advice and guidance to senior colleagues regarding national and local developments in health and safety legislation, guidance and practice and to provide briefings for senior staff as appropriate
To support the principal health and safety specialist in providing expert advice and in supporting clinical, operational and management staff on best practice risk management methodologies and the processes to identify, assess, mitigate and escalate health and safety risks.
Support the work of Divisional Health and Safety Managers in making sure that they work closely with operational managers and Heads of Quality Governance to ensure they have robust health and safety management arrangements in place in line with Trust policy.
Ensuring that all relevant Trust Health and Safety policies and procedures are up to date and relevant, supporting the design, development and implementation of any new policies required as legislation is introduced or changed. Ensuring that such policies and procedures dovetail with the Trust Risk Management Strategy and are compliant with associated standards
To support senior colleagues in reviewing, identifying and interpreting legislative developments, best practice and guidance ensuring that this is communicated to key staff and that appropriate actions are put into place. Similarly, to support the review of outcomes of audits of Trust services where Health and Safety compliance implications arise to ensure that learning is identified and actions taken
To support the co-ordination of the work of the Corporate Health and Safety Group and support the work of Divisional H&S Managers in managing the same function at Divisional level.
Working co-operatively with other members of the Safety and wider Quality Governance team to ensure that issues identified are reviewed and triangulated with other assurance information to support improvement.
This advert closes on Monday 5 Aug 2024
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