Job summary
Senior Health, Safety, Security and Fire Practitioner: Manual Handling Specialist (Quality Management Team)
Hours
37.5
Job Status
Full-Time
Band
7
Salary
£ 43,742 - £45,996
Location
Trust wide
Job Type
Permanent
Are you a qualified health and safety professional seeking a new challenge? Have you ever thought about working in a sector where the workforce is dynamic, multi-disciplinary and focused on excellent, reliable care for patients while keeping staff safe? Why not consider a career with the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS).
The NWAS Health, Safety, Fire and Security team are seeking to appoint two members to join them in their mission of keeping staff safe whilst in work. The core elements of the roles are the same in that you will be a vital member of the health, safety, security, and fire team working alongside the other senior practitioners and officers under the leadership of the Head of Health, Safety, Security and Fire.
We will look to you to provide leadership which inspires, motivates, and empowers staff across NWAS to develop a positive safety culture. It is expected you will promote open and supportive environments in which staff can deliver high quality clinical and non-clinical support service. It is essential you can communicate effectively, and liaise and joint work within the HSSF team, wider quality management team, all directorates and with Trade Union colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will hold appropriate health and safety qualifications and be Chartered safety professionals. The recruitment process will explore your leadership skills and potential including your ability to show you are able to work as part of a team. We will expect you to demonstrate you have the competencies to deputise for the Head of Health, Safety, Security and Fire as needed.
Senior Health, Safety, Security and Fire (HSSF) Practitioner: Manual Handling Specialist:
The main additional components of the role will be to:
- contribute to health, safety, security, and fire programmes of work, with a focus on manual handling expertise, training, and reduction to support the development of our safety culture working with our patient safety specialists, front line clinicians and improvement team.
- provide enhanced specialist moving and handling advice,
- Support and undertake enhanced specialist risk assessments, particularly to reduce safety incidents and associated sickness absence for 'difficult extraction'.
- Design, deliver and enhance specialist training for manual handling.
- oversee Manual handling equipment risk assessment and procurement decisions as part of clinical equipment and vehicle design work.
- Support stronger compliance with the HSE regulations [1974 and 2010]
- Support novel ways of learning/training using virtual reality in alignment with the digital team.
About us
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure that you have read the full Job description and Person Specification before applying for this role.
For more information please contact: Mary Peters, Senior Manager Quality Compliance and Control, mary.peters@nwas.nhs.uk
SJT Live 10/01/2024
Date of Assessment 24/01/2024 - Please be available all day
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure that you have read the full Job description and Person Specification before applying for this role.
For more information please contact: Mary Peters, Senior Manager Quality Compliance and Control, mary.peters@nwas.nhs.uk
SJT Live 10/01/2024
Date of Assessment 24/01/2024 - Please be available all day
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, with relevant experience.
- Qualified safety/security professional with relevant diploma (NEBOSH or equivalent) and able to continue with professional development to cover full duties of role.
- Be a Chartered Member of IOSH or equivalent professional body (or working towards)
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Communicate effectively both internally and externally using a wide variety of techniques (both written and verbal) in order to clearly articulate complex safety, health, fire and security legislation current and emerging.
- Able to lead members of the health, safety, security and fire (HSSF) team.
- Able to prioritise effectively dealing with competing demands.
- Ability to negotiate and influence persuasively to command confidence and respect from stakeholders.
- Strong problem solving and reasoning skills. With the ability to influence and motivate; and present as needed.
- Ability to interpret statistics to identify trends in incident records and develop reports and assurance documentation.
- Be computer literate and able use appropriate windows packages and risk management software (Datix), and other systems such as Cleric, ERISS etc.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.
Desirable
- Ability to lead and recommend change to improve systems and processes using improvement skills and techniques.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Sound experience of providing HSSF specialist advice within the NHS or healthcare setting or within a multi-site / multi-disciplinary organisation.
- Experience of working at different managerial levels.
- Experience in completing complex risk assessments.
- Experience in writing and producing detailed concise and accurate reports.
- Experience of incident and claims investigation.
- Experience in applying changes in health, safety, fire and security legislation.
- Experience in development and delivery HSSF training courses.
- Experience of carrying out inspections and audits.
- Experience of managing a team with people management skills.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to be discreet, tactful and considerate Flexible and highly motivated.
- Ability to manage own work load and to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Project a professional image.
- Act in accordance with the NHS values and behaviours framework.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, with relevant experience.
- Qualified safety/security professional with relevant diploma (NEBOSH or equivalent) and able to continue with professional development to cover full duties of role.
- Be a Chartered Member of IOSH or equivalent professional body (or working towards)
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Communicate effectively both internally and externally using a wide variety of techniques (both written and verbal) in order to clearly articulate complex safety, health, fire and security legislation current and emerging.
- Able to lead members of the health, safety, security and fire (HSSF) team.
- Able to prioritise effectively dealing with competing demands.
- Ability to negotiate and influence persuasively to command confidence and respect from stakeholders.
- Strong problem solving and reasoning skills. With the ability to influence and motivate; and present as needed.
- Ability to interpret statistics to identify trends in incident records and develop reports and assurance documentation.
- Be computer literate and able use appropriate windows packages and risk management software (Datix), and other systems such as Cleric, ERISS etc.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.
Desirable
- Ability to lead and recommend change to improve systems and processes using improvement skills and techniques.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Sound experience of providing HSSF specialist advice within the NHS or healthcare setting or within a multi-site / multi-disciplinary organisation.
- Experience of working at different managerial levels.
- Experience in completing complex risk assessments.
- Experience in writing and producing detailed concise and accurate reports.
- Experience of incident and claims investigation.
- Experience in applying changes in health, safety, fire and security legislation.
- Experience in development and delivery HSSF training courses.
- Experience of carrying out inspections and audits.
- Experience of managing a team with people management skills.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to be discreet, tactful and considerate Flexible and highly motivated.
- Ability to manage own work load and to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Project a professional image.
- Act in accordance with the NHS values and behaviours framework.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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