Corporate Health and Safety Manager

Your World Healthcare

Corporate Health and Safety Manager

In order to meet the needs of the Trust’s services you may be required from time to time to work outside your normal place of work. The Trust reserves the right to change your normal place of work to any other location within the Trust.

Location: Euston, London

Job Type: Temporary

Duration of booking: Maternity cover, expected to last over 12 months with possible extension.

Proposed start date: Early July 2023

Pay Rates: Up to£30 per hour Umbrella or £27 per hour PAYE inclusive of holidaypay.

Hours / Working Days: 37.5 hours per week / Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.

Sector: Healthcare.

Based: Office / Hospital.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Relevant Master Degree or equivalent recognised health and safety qualification
• Significant experience in managing the health and safety agenda and functions of an organisation
• Previous experience of implementing risk management strategies
• Experience of developing and delivering education/development programmes
• Evidence of managing change
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• – Innovative, pro-active and resourceful
• Excellent interpersonal skills, articulate, creative, self – aware, controlled and confident
• Self-motivated and able to influence and motivate others
• Performs well under pressure and achieve tight deadlines in a complex/changing environment.
• Ability to work inter-professionally and across professional and organisational boundaries with all levels of staff.

Main Purpose of Job

• 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 an effective 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• 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.