Health & Safety Advisor

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 12 January 2025

Job summary

Full-time

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Health & Safety Team for a Trust-wide Health and Safety Advisor.

The key function of the Health and Safety Advisor is to provide the professional expertise to enable The Rotherham Foundation Trust to achieve the highest possible standards of patient and staff safety.

The Health & Safety Team provides a range of multidisciplinary specialist expert advice and assistance to a wide range of services, staff and senior managers. The successful candidate must have proven organisational skills and be committed to consistently delivering a quality service, which promotes good customer service and effective working relationships. Significant experience of undertaking risk assessments, compiling reports and compliance is essential together with a sound understanding of health and safety legislation.

The role will require a flexible approach to work, with the ability to manage their workload and the reporting teams and to be able to work as part of a team and also under their own initiative.

For further details, /informal visits contact:

Name: James Kitchen

Job title: Head of Health and Safety

Email address: james.kitchen6@nhs.net

Telephone number: 01709 424249

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Health & Safety Team for a Trust-wide Health and Safety Advisor.

The role will require a flexible approach to work, with the ability to manage their workload and the reporting teams and to be able to work as part of a team and also under their own initiative.

About us

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham.

As a Trust we are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a place to work?, and were one of the most improved for staff engagement overall.

But dont just take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making.

All of our 5,100 colleagues are key to our improvement journey, and we are continuing to improve our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together. If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us on our journey to excellence.

Date posted

02 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year Pro rata/per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9165-24-12-017

Job locations

The Rotherham Nhs Foundation Trust

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S60 2UD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for the full details about the role and the responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for the full details about the role and the responsibilities.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of health and safety from working in a large, complex organisation over multiple sites, preferably within a healthcare setting.
Experience in the management and supervision of staff.
Experience of developing and maintaining risk assessments, including COSHH assessments, general risk assessments.
Experience of developing, maintaining and continuously improving health and safety management systems.
Experience of developing and writing health and safety policies and procedures.
Experience of managing databases to store complex information.
Experience of writing clear and concise reports, to inform policy and provide information and assurance.
Experience of developing and delivering risk assessment training packages to audiences at all levels.
Experience of auditing against legislation, policy and guidance documents.

Knowledge

Essential

Working knowledge of NHS/and or healthcare systems and process, language and terminology.
Knowledge of relevant current issues in health and social care.
Knowledge of key issues that relate to health and safety.
Demonstrates awareness of limits to knowledge base.

Qualifications

Essential

Professional knowledge acquired through a relevant degree (level 6) or relevant experience.
NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety or equivalent (or working towards).

Desirable

NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire and Risk Management.
Certified membership of IOSH (or working towards).

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of health and safety from working in a large, complex organisation over multiple sites, preferably within a healthcare setting.
Experience in the management and supervision of staff.
Experience of developing and maintaining risk assessments, including COSHH assessments, general risk assessments.
Experience of developing, maintaining and continuously improving health and safety management systems.
Experience of developing and writing health and safety policies and procedures.
Experience of managing databases to store complex information.
Experience of writing clear and concise reports, to inform policy and provide information and assurance.
Experience of developing and delivering risk assessment training packages to audiences at all levels.
Experience of auditing against legislation, policy and guidance documents.

Knowledge

Essential

Working knowledge of NHS/and or healthcare systems and process, language and terminology.
Knowledge of relevant current issues in health and social care.
Knowledge of key issues that relate to health and safety.
Demonstrates awareness of limits to knowledge base.

Qualifications

Essential

Professional knowledge acquired through a relevant degree (level 6) or relevant experience.
NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety or equivalent (or working towards).

Desirable

NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire and Risk Management.
Certified membership of IOSH (or working towards).

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.