Personal Safety Advisor

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Health, Safety and Fire Department. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join our team.

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of highly specialist knowledge and advice to the Health Board Committees in matters related to violence and aggression.

Be the lead specialist in providing specialist guidance, training, advice and instruction on violence and aggression issues across the Health Board.

The post holder will identify, advise and facilitate the implementation of health and safety systems, designed to prevent and or mitigate the effects of violence and aggression on a Health Board wide basis in accordance with legislative requirements, NHS requirements, national guidance and good practice.

The post holder will develop and implement violence and aggression training programmes that meet the requirements of the Health Board and the All Wales Violence and Aggression Training Passport.

Main duties of the job

Ensure CTM meets employee training targets in accordance with the All Wales Passport. Support Directorates with training targets, provide detailed quarterly training reports for the Health Board Committees.

Develop specific Health Board policies and procedures based on nationwide guidance, legislation and good practice in order to reduce the risk of violent incidents, which includes specific guidance for managers and employees with security issues. This guidance includes providing advice on pursuing legal sanctions and prosecutions against perpetrators of violence within the Health Board. This may involve adopting additional measures against perpetrators of unacceptable behaviour by issuing internal and civil sanctions, such as patient undertakings, patient exclusions, anti-social behaviour referrals/orders.

Ensure that violent incidents are systematically reviewed to enable lessons to be identified and shared across the organisation.

Undertake workplace assessments following violent incidents. This involves giving specialist advice, assessing the environment and possible trigger factors which may have instigated the aggression.

Interviewing the patient assessing and evaluating care plans medication charts, giving advice on specific patient management issues.

Chair specific subgroups such as the All Wales Steering Groups/Security Sub-Groups, tasked with developing training modules, policy and risk assessments on issues related to violence and aggression and staff safety.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve.We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.