The main purpose of the job is to provide specialist health and safety advice to Central and North West London NHS Trust, demonstrating a significant knowledge of the legislation and regulatory framework, including NHS guidelines. The post-holders will also be responsible for the provision of high quality health and safety training to Trust staff.
Post-holders will be responsible for supporting the development, implementation and communication of all health and safety related strategies, policies and procedures in order to ensure compliance with national standards and best practice.
Provide expert advice, support, training and leadership on all aspects of health and safety
• Support the Safety & Resilience Manager in the development of an annual work plan in line with the needs of the organisation and statutory requirements.
• In liaison with the Safety & Resilience Manager, ensure the Trust is made aware of new applicable legislation and guidance as it arises.
• Investigate health and safety incidents, including Serious Untoward Incident (SUI) to identify relevant root causes, risk management strategies and support the sharing of lessons learnt
• Deliver interventions aimed at mitigating the risk to the health and safety of staff and others and improving the outcomes in relation to patient, staff and visitor safety.
• Support the development, monitoring, implementation and review of strategies, policies and procedures to promote and develop safe systems of work for the Trust, liaising with appropriate managers to support compliance with statutory responsibilities.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Risk Registers, maintaining an oversight on the implementation of strategic actions required to mitigate risks.
• Support Service Managers and other stakeholders in ensuring the Trust’s health and safety processes meet the business requirements of the organisation and the local needs of services
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.
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”.
• Support the implementation, monitoring and compliance with other action plans resulting from audits undertaken by other department or external organisations, including statutory returns to external regulatory bodies
• Support the Safety & Resilience Manager to ensure corporate policies, processes and procedures are regularly reviewed and updated to meet relevant requirements.
• Produce regular reports for Divisional and Corporate Health and Safety Groups, providing an effective overview of the Trust performance against key indicators for health and safety.
• Upon request, produce reports to analyse health and safety related data, draw conclusions and make recommendations on appropriate actions to be taken.
• Support the Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Manager to ensure that appropriate plans are in place and provide support to local managers in reviewing these.
• Represent the Trust’s health and safety function at external meetings, forums and seminars.
This advert closes on Monday 16 Sep 2024
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