Band 6 Health and Safety Adviser

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 01 October 2024

Job summary

Do you want to make a difference to people's lives?

Reporting to the Health and Safety Lead this is a varied and challenging role in a diverse healthcare setting.

This post will be based at Good Hope Hospital, with an expectation of travel across all hospital sites to meet team and organisational requirements. The Health and Safety Adviser will be an integral member of the Trust Health and Safety Team and focussed on providing competent health and safety advice, guidance and support to staff at all levels of the organisation and promoting a positive health and safety culture.

The post holder is expected to have sound knowledge of Health and safety legislation and best practice guidance, and experience of undertaking health and safety audits and inspections, investigating incidents, accidents and near misses, undertaking risk assessment and delivering health and safety training.

UHB is a great place to work, offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging.

No two days are the same, the role is varied and diverse.

What we can offer:

* 27 days' leave plus bank holidays (rising to 29 days after 5 years' service and 33 days after 10 years)

* Training and development opportunities

* Long-term career progression plans and support

* Generous NHS pension

* Great maternity, paternity and adoption pay

* A wide range of LGBT+ initiatives and staff networks

* Health and well-being opportunities

Main duties of the job

* Perform audits, inspections and risk assessments for defined areas of health and safety and assist/facilitate operational colleagues in the implementation and management of the same.

* Provide departmental managers with appropriate advice in relation to risks identified as a result of health and safety inspections and monitor the implementation of actions plans.

* Work closely with various departments to support the development and review of risk assessments to ensure they are suitable and sufficient and meet the Trust standard.

* With colleagues, drive a positive and consistent health & safety culture throughout the Trust

* Prepare health & safety reports.

* Provide information analysis on health & safety issues and report/communicate to relevant staff groups. Where necessary adapt communications skills and style to enable effective engagement.

* Ensure that the Health and Safety Lead and Head of Health and Safety is informed of any risks associated with failure to implement agreed actions.

* Contribute to the development of systems to capture and retrieve audit and inspection information to enable effective reporting and monitoring of key issues and recommendations

- Form good working relationships with the site Operational team particularly the Hospital Sites, Health and Safety representative.

- Take the lead on safety projects as directed by the Health and Safety Lead.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

03 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

304-1082312DH

Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Qualified to Degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent experience working within the profession.
* NEBOSH National Certificate (Level 3) or equivalent/ NVQ 4 in relevant subject or equivalent

Desirable

* NEBOSH Health and Safety (level 6) Diploma or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

* Significant experience of providing health & safety support within a complex organisation, minimum of 12 months.
* Experience of undertaking risk assessment
* Experience of performing audit and inspection
* Experience of delivering promotional campaigns to raise awareness and engage staff
* Experience of developing and delivering training
* Experience of implementing health and safety measures
* Knowledge of current health and safety legislation
* Working knowledge of health & safety databases and operational processes.
* Working knowledge of Microsoft packages

Desirable

* Experience of working in the health care sector
* Experience of developing/reviewing policies and procedures that impact across a service.
* Knowledge of the relationships between clinical and non-clinical services provided by the NHS and national/regional drivers for change within the NHS.

Additional Criteria

Essential

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
* Ability to adopt flexible working practices.
* Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
* Strong analysis, interpretation skills and judgement
* Effective interpersonal and influencing skills
* Able to extract and use information from a variety of sources and formats
* Computer skills including working knowledge of spreadsheets, databases and word processing programmes.
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* Ability to work as part of a wider team and understand the needs of other departments
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
* Committed enthusiastic approach, with a willingness to learn and improve
* Strong solution focused approach to problem solving.
* Be able to travel between sites as and when required to meet operational requirements and to attend meetings requiring the input of the Health & Safety team.

Desirable

* Flexibility to meet the demands of the service

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Qualified to Degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent experience working within the profession.
* NEBOSH National Certificate (Level 3) or equivalent/ NVQ 4 in relevant subject or equivalent

Desirable

* NEBOSH Health and Safety (level 6) Diploma or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

* Significant experience of providing health & safety support within a complex organisation, minimum of 12 months.
* Experience of undertaking risk assessment
* Experience of performing audit and inspection
* Experience of delivering promotional campaigns to raise awareness and engage staff
* Experience of developing and delivering training
* Experience of implementing health and safety measures
* Knowledge of current health and safety legislation
* Working knowledge of health & safety databases and operational processes.
* Working knowledge of Microsoft packages

Desirable

* Experience of working in the health care sector
* Experience of developing/reviewing policies and procedures that impact across a service.
* Knowledge of the relationships between clinical and non-clinical services provided by the NHS and national/regional drivers for change within the NHS.

Additional Criteria

Essential

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
* Ability to adopt flexible working practices.
* Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
* Strong analysis, interpretation skills and judgement
* Effective interpersonal and influencing skills
* Able to extract and use information from a variety of sources and formats
* Computer skills including working knowledge of spreadsheets, databases and word processing programmes.
*
* Ability to work as part of a wider team and understand the needs of other departments
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
* Committed enthusiastic approach, with a willingness to learn and improve
* Strong solution focused approach to problem solving.
* Be able to travel between sites as and when required to meet operational requirements and to attend meetings requiring the input of the Health & Safety team.

Desirable

* Flexibility to meet the demands of the service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.