Job summary
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for a Health & Safety Advisor to join the Health, Safety, Fire & Security Team.
This is a dynamic role, for 18 months Secondment, and will involve working across all Trust sites throughout Derbyshire. You will play a key part in supporting the Head of Health & Safety, Fire and Security, in relation to Health & Safety matters. This includes ensuring compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and NHS Fire code standards.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will
- Provide professional advice on all Health & Safety / Incident prevention matters relating to staff and premises
- Undertake Heath & Safety Audits, write policy, develop safe systems of work, accident/incident investigations and to provide safety advice to all staff.
- You will also develop and deliver Health & Safety training in line with the training needs analysis for the Trust, this will include face to face, e-learning and Risk Assessment training to ensure compliance with all relevant Safety legislation and guidance, in particular the The Management at Work Regulations 1999 and related Department of Health, Health Technical Memorandums.
- The above will apply to all Trust sites including areas that work in other Trusts buildings.
About us
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."
"As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visa's and Immigration. Please note without previous NHS Service you will commence at the bottom of the pay band which currently does not meet the minimum salary requirement for sponsorship for this post. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk websiteSkilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK(www.gov.uk)"
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will:
- Demonstrate the Trusts values in everything you do in the work environment and live up to DHCFTs Trust Values
- Support the delivery of Effective Healthcare within the organisation
- Establishing Effective Leadership and Communication
- Showcase continuing Education, Professional and Personal Development
- Undertake the Trusts corporate and local induction, and maintain your learning and compliance with training requirements for your role
- Participate in supervision via agreed review and appraisal mechani
- Operate with Quality in everything you do and Maintaining a Safe Environment
- Assist the Head of Health, Safety, Fire and Security to lead the organisation in promoting a positive health and safety culture, supporting all Directorates, ensuring a visible presence
- Planning for health and safety including the setting of realistic short and long term objectives.
- Formulating and developing a range of health and safety policies, including performance managing delivery of those policies.
- To introduce controls and monitoring arrangements to ensure policies and procedures are correctly implemented.
- Undertake and oversee accident incident investigation, reporting and undertaking analysis of health and safety and incidents as soon as they occur in order to assist with denial/swift settlement of claims, reporting externally to the HSE (RIDDOR) where applicable.
- Review of performance and audit of the whole health and safety management system.
- Line manage in the absence of the Head of Health, Safety, Fire and Security and co-ordinate the workload and set priorities for health and safety Services.
- Control, as identified, any capital monies allocated for the purpose of improving Health and Safety and reducing Ligature risks.
- Manage and use of Resources and InformationFormulating, developing and implementing the Trust Health and Safety strategy and policy.Providing specialist advice to directors and senior managers and front line staff as necessary.
- Assist setting health and safety objectives and monitor and review their performance against those objectives.
It is mandatory for all professionally qualified staff and clinical support staff to actively participate in clinical supervision as an integral part of their professional development
All records that the role is responsible for or modifies must be kept up to date and maintained in an accurate and diligent manner
The post of Health and Safety Advisor exists to fulfil the Trusts obligation and commitment to provide competent health and safety legislative advice to the Trust and employees, and as required independent contractors. Ensuring that the Trust has systems in place to enable it to demonstrate compliance with this legislation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will:
- Demonstrate the Trusts values in everything you do in the work environment and live up to DHCFTs Trust Values
- Support the delivery of Effective Healthcare within the organisation
- Establishing Effective Leadership and Communication
- Showcase continuing Education, Professional and Personal Development
- Undertake the Trusts corporate and local induction, and maintain your learning and compliance with training requirements for your role
- Participate in supervision via agreed review and appraisal mechani
- Operate with Quality in everything you do and Maintaining a Safe Environment
- Assist the Head of Health, Safety, Fire and Security to lead the organisation in promoting a positive health and safety culture, supporting all Directorates, ensuring a visible presence
- Planning for health and safety including the setting of realistic short and long term objectives.
- Formulating and developing a range of health and safety policies, including performance managing delivery of those policies.
- To introduce controls and monitoring arrangements to ensure policies and procedures are correctly implemented.
- Undertake and oversee accident incident investigation, reporting and undertaking analysis of health and safety and incidents as soon as they occur in order to assist with denial/swift settlement of claims, reporting externally to the HSE (RIDDOR) where applicable.
- Review of performance and audit of the whole health and safety management system.
- Line manage in the absence of the Head of Health, Safety, Fire and Security and co-ordinate the workload and set priorities for health and safety Services.
- Control, as identified, any capital monies allocated for the purpose of improving Health and Safety and reducing Ligature risks.
- Manage and use of Resources and InformationFormulating, developing and implementing the Trust Health and Safety strategy and policy.Providing specialist advice to directors and senior managers and front line staff as necessary.
- Assist setting health and safety objectives and monitor and review their performance against those objectives.
It is mandatory for all professionally qualified staff and clinical support staff to actively participate in clinical supervision as an integral part of their professional development
All records that the role is responsible for or modifies must be kept up to date and maintained in an accurate and diligent manner
The post of Health and Safety Advisor exists to fulfil the Trusts obligation and commitment to provide competent health and safety legislative advice to the Trust and employees, and as required independent contractors. Ensuring that the Trust has systems in place to enable it to demonstrate compliance with this legislation.
Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential
- People First
- Respect
- Honesty
- Do Your best
Qualifications
Essential
- NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent, NEBOSH Diploma or working towards
- Member of Institue of Occupational Safety and Health or working towards
- Evidence of continued professional development and knowledge underpinned by theory and experience
Desirable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Practical experience of health and Safety management system implementation and accident prevention
- Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, Risk assessment and Incident Investigation techniques
- Ability to influence change and the implementation of compliance in respect to health and safety legislation under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 etc.
- Experience in using Microsoft Office software and incident reporting databases
- Excellent organisational skills /ability to manage own time
- Ability to communicate and influence at all levels
- Demonstrate presentation skills
Desirable
- Knowledge/understanding of services provided by organisation and workings of the health and social care economy
- Support and as necessary lead specific projects, tasks, and groups
- Demonstrate knowledge of NHS standards, Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) and Health Building Notes (HBN), health and safety regulations / DoH systems relating to health and safety
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate working on a wide variety of health and safety issues
- Act as organisation advocate Liaising with solicitors, external bodies e.g., HSE, CQC, local authorities etc
- Health and Safety Committee experience or equivalent
- Experience of producing papers for committees
- Experience in policy formulation and implementation
- Experience of accident investigations and producing accident reports
- Experience of creating, delivering, and evaluating training to diverse audiences
- Act as expert advisor at Trust meetings
- Experience of producing performance reports
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Highly motivated
- Excellent people skills
- Excellent verbal and written skills, enabling complex technical aspects of health and safety to be communicated in a style that colleagues can comprehend and implement
- Experience in analysing data and making own judgement to influence service delivery in a variety of complex environments
Desirable
- Out of hours flexibility
- Recognise the value of networking, established and nurturing productive relationships using adaptive styles to influence others towards goals
Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential
- People First
- Respect
- Honesty
- Do Your best
Qualifications
Essential
- NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent, NEBOSH Diploma or working towards
- Member of Institue of Occupational Safety and Health or working towards
- Evidence of continued professional development and knowledge underpinned by theory and experience
Desirable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Practical experience of health and Safety management system implementation and accident prevention
- Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, Risk assessment and Incident Investigation techniques
- Ability to influence change and the implementation of compliance in respect to health and safety legislation under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 etc.
- Experience in using Microsoft Office software and incident reporting databases
- Excellent organisational skills /ability to manage own time
- Ability to communicate and influence at all levels
- Demonstrate presentation skills
Desirable
- Knowledge/understanding of services provided by organisation and workings of the health and social care economy
- Support and as necessary lead specific projects, tasks, and groups
- Demonstrate knowledge of NHS standards, Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) and Health Building Notes (HBN), health and safety regulations / DoH systems relating to health and safety
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate working on a wide variety of health and safety issues
- Act as organisation advocate Liaising with solicitors, external bodies e.g., HSE, CQC, local authorities etc
- Health and Safety Committee experience or equivalent
- Experience of producing papers for committees
- Experience in policy formulation and implementation
- Experience of accident investigations and producing accident reports
- Experience of creating, delivering, and evaluating training to diverse audiences
- Act as expert advisor at Trust meetings
- Experience of producing performance reports
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Highly motivated
- Excellent people skills
- Excellent verbal and written skills, enabling complex technical aspects of health and safety to be communicated in a style that colleagues can comprehend and implement
- Experience in analysing data and making own judgement to influence service delivery in a variety of complex environments
Desirable
- Out of hours flexibility
- Recognise the value of networking, established and nurturing productive relationships using adaptive styles to influence others towards goals
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).
