Role
The primary purpose of the job role is to provide support to the Head of Campus Services and Compliance and the wider Estates and Facilities team to ensure that the Trust is compliant with all current legislation relevant to maintaining safe water systems across all hospital buildings. This includes:
1. The Water Safety officer will provide expert advice and assurance on all matters of Water Safety, serving the needs of the Trust and partner organisations, ensuring that the needs and expectations of all stakeholders are met.
2. Understanding the optimum running parameters for water systems across the site and instructing contractors to undertake the correct actions when these fall out of normal operating parameters.
3. Investigating adverse water quality sample results and providing remediation solutions, helping to maintain communication between all relevant hospital departments to ensure work is planned in and completed to the correct timescales.
4. Undertaking duties in the absence of the Responsible Person for Water Safety and fulfilling their role as an Authorised Person.
5. Contributing to Water Safety projects, Policies/Procedures, and Water Safety improvement initiatives. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring staff, patients, and visitors are able to deliver/receive the required level of care in a safe and appropriate Healthcare environment.
6. Taking a lead role in advising, auditing & reporting findings on operational water safety.
7. Working with Trust Authorised Engineer & Head of Campus to develop water safety related risk assessments, audit programme (including monitoring of subsequent action plans), and safe water strategy for the hospital.
8. Managing Trust’s water management information and producing complex monthly management reports on the performance of water systems for the Trust's estate and analysing reports produced by PFI Hard FM Co.
9. Contributing to Trust wide water safety maintenance, including water temperature monitoring and water sampling in line with the water safety plan for Trust and updating as required.
10. Responsible for producing data including site plans and the database. Complying with the Trust’s quality procedure and ensuring that all work is aligned to relevant HTM/HBN’s.
11. Acting as Deputy Responsible Person for water systems for the Trust.
12. Providing technical advice and support including control of mechanical contractors appointed on major capital projects and minor upgrade works. Undertaking fault finding on complex critical systems and equipment to diagnose and advise. Advising on emergency repairs to water systems. Supporting the response to legionella/pseudomonas positives ensuring all remedial actions have been completed.
13. Supporting the response to water related emergencies. Chairing the Operational Water Safety Group reporting to Head of Campus Services and Compliance.
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Gildea Job title: Head of Campus & Compliance Email address: chris.gildea@alderhey.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01512284811
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