Job summary
Band 5 - £29,969 to £36,483 per annum
Permanent, full-time role - 37.5 hours per week
Working as part of a multidisciplinary Health and Safety team, the Health and Safety Advisor will support key functions of service delivery, ensuring that both Trusts meet their legal and regulatory obligations.
Main duties of the job
- Promote a positive Health and Safety culture throughout the Trusts, ensuring good standards of Health and Safety are implemented and maintained across a large complex acute NHS Trust.
- Participate in undertaking a program of Health and Safety audits and inspections for healthcare premises and Trust teams communicating findings throughout the relevant care groups/divisions/committees.
- Provide specialist advice and support to all levels of staff on Health and Safety management, ensuring compliance with current legislation and best practice.
- Advise and support managers and Health and Safety leads in the completion of risk assessments and safe systems of work.
- Undertake accident and incident investigations, reviewing trends for thematic learning, prevention, and improvement.
- Support with Health and Safety training needs by delivering appropriate training packages throughout the organisation to a wide audience/staff group.
About us
Our vision for Single Corporate ServicesIsle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) have a shared vision of a single corporate service across our two organisations, supported by a single set of identical systems and processes, under joint leadership, to drive significant efficiencies, improve employee experience, and return time to patient care.
This vacancy is part of the Single Corporate Services Division.
Why are we changing the way we deliver Corporate Services?Working as a partnership, both IWT and PHU have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. The creation of a single corporate service is essential for us to support our clinical and operational services, and our wider transformation programme.
The vision for our single corporate services is to:
- Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
- Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
- Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake audits and inspections that align with Trust policies and procedures.
- Produce basic reports that may contain sensitive or contentious Health and Safety information.
- Undertake non complex accident and incident investigation.
- Provide basic advice and guidance to all levels of Trust staff on all aspects of Health and Safety management, safe system of work and risk assessments.
- Support with Health and Safety evaluations and assessments of working environments for individuals and teams.
- Undertake basic analytical and statistical review of accident and incident trends, formulating recommendations and reports as necessary within the scope of the role.
- Support quality assurance process and rigour to risk assessments and Health and Safety compliance ensuring that the Health and Safety risk assessment framework is embedded into each care group/division.
- Contribute to clinical governance and patient safety issues as required within the scope of the role.
- Support the development and review of Health and Safety policies and guidance that will enable the Trusts' to maintain compliance with relevant statutory compliance.
- Maintain accurate records, spreadsheets, and data bases for a wide scope of Health and Safety activities.
- Support with clinical audit programme for the service - providing advice and guidance to peer professionals on the formulation and completion of routine clinical audits.
- Support, supervise, and guide junior and less experienced staff within the team delegating tasks where appropriate.
- Be proactive in the prevention and management of staff incidents and when they occur investigating and supporting in a timely manner.
- Work closely with partners/teams and services throughout the organisation whose specialist functions and roles contribute to matters of organisational Health and Safety.
- Support and implement the delivery of a variety of Health and Safety specific training modules for staff and managers.
- Create a culture for learning and development that will sustain person centred safe and effective care.
- Support the development of resources that will support the learning and skills of junior members of staff and peers throughout the wider service.
- Coordinate and develop promotional material for Health and Safety campaigns.
- Support in updating the Health and Safety intranet pages.
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake audits and inspections that align with Trust policies and procedures.
- Produce basic reports that may contain sensitive or contentious Health and Safety information.
- Undertake non complex accident and incident investigation.
- Provide basic advice and guidance to all levels of Trust staff on all aspects of Health and Safety management, safe system of work and risk assessments.
- Support with Health and Safety evaluations and assessments of working environments for individuals and teams.
- Undertake basic analytical and statistical review of accident and incident trends, formulating recommendations and reports as necessary within the scope of the role.
- Support quality assurance process and rigour to risk assessments and Health and Safety compliance ensuring that the Health and Safety risk assessment framework is embedded into each care group/division.
- Contribute to clinical governance and patient safety issues as required within the scope of the role.
- Support the development and review of Health and Safety policies and guidance that will enable the Trusts' to maintain compliance with relevant statutory compliance.
- Maintain accurate records, spreadsheets, and data bases for a wide scope of Health and Safety activities.
- Support with clinical audit programme for the service - providing advice and guidance to peer professionals on the formulation and completion of routine clinical audits.
- Support, supervise, and guide junior and less experienced staff within the team delegating tasks where appropriate.
- Be proactive in the prevention and management of staff incidents and when they occur investigating and supporting in a timely manner.
- Work closely with partners/teams and services throughout the organisation whose specialist functions and roles contribute to matters of organisational Health and Safety.
- Support and implement the delivery of a variety of Health and Safety specific training modules for staff and managers.
- Create a culture for learning and development that will sustain person centred safe and effective care.
- Support the development of resources that will support the learning and skills of junior members of staff and peers throughout the wider service.
- Coordinate and develop promotional material for Health and Safety campaigns.
- Support in updating the Health and Safety intranet pages.
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist qualification in Occupational Health and Safety at Work (EG NEBOSH Cert) or demonstrable relevant experience
Desirable
- Training Qualification First Degree level (or equivalent experience)
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Have knowledge of legislation and regulations relevant to scope of role Competent in the use of a wide range of software e.g.: Microsoft Office, Risk Management system, Sharepoint
Desirable
- Ability to make sound professional judgement on a broad range of Health and Safety issues, with the autonomy to intervene where unsafe practice is identified
Experience
Essential
- Ability to communicate information to individuals/groups/committees in a comprehensive way
- Ability to plan and organise basic activities or programmes underpinning relevant H&S topics and legislative requirements Confident in preparing and delivering basic written reports
- Confident to deliver training, presentations and//or reports to individuals, groups and or committees
- Ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team with integrity and confidentiality, managing own workload and demands
- Confident to communicate and share best practice in Health and Safety to multidisciplinary groups and all levels of staff throughout the organisation.
- Ability to hand difficult or complex situations with compassion and sensitivity
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist qualification in Occupational Health and Safety at Work (EG NEBOSH Cert) or demonstrable relevant experience
Desirable
- Training Qualification First Degree level (or equivalent experience)
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Have knowledge of legislation and regulations relevant to scope of role Competent in the use of a wide range of software e.g.: Microsoft Office, Risk Management system, Sharepoint
Desirable
- Ability to make sound professional judgement on a broad range of Health and Safety issues, with the autonomy to intervene where unsafe practice is identified
Experience
Essential
- Ability to communicate information to individuals/groups/committees in a comprehensive way
- Ability to plan and organise basic activities or programmes underpinning relevant H&S topics and legislative requirements Confident in preparing and delivering basic written reports
- Confident to deliver training, presentations and//or reports to individuals, groups and or committees
- Ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team with integrity and confidentiality, managing own workload and demands
- Confident to communicate and share best practice in Health and Safety to multidisciplinary groups and all levels of staff throughout the organisation.
- Ability to hand difficult or complex situations with compassion and sensitivity
Desirable
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.
