Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

Job summary

This is a highly varied role with the scope to make a considerable impact on the wellbeing of our staff. Working with all levels of the organisation, you will deliver evidence-led health, safety and wellbeing (HS&W) advice. Helping staff to understand how they can balance their patient safety and service delivery priorities with legal compliance and their own HS&W, you will become a trusted partner to their work. Identifying gaps in knowledge, you will deliver training courses to up to 15 people, and you will be a trusted expert when sharing your findings via reports. Determining how legislation will affect policy, you will also take specialist responsibilities for risk, assurance or improvement. So regardless of whether you are communicating one-on-one with staff regarding work-related stress, working with colleagues to inspect the scene of a workplace accident, or collaborating with the Trade Unions to enable constructive conversations, you will deliver practical solutions to complex challenges.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be required to provide a professional Health, Safety and Wellbeing service to managers and staff. Your responsibilities will include :- Planning with directorates, facilitating consultation, providing accurate and timely advice Assessing training needs and delivering training Encouraging effective working between Occupational Health, Human Resources and Managers Engaging and influencing senior managers, HS&W performance reporting Working with Directorates on HS&W improvement initiatives over a large geographical area supported by HS&W Advisors. Providing additional support for specialist areas as required by Head of Health and Safety Policy and Planning. The specialist areas are: Risk, Assurance and Improvement. -Risk - profiling NHSBT HS&W risk to include Residual Risk reduction, producing national model risk assessments, and trending -Assurance - measuring performance, investigating accidents and incidents, to include maintenance of the H&S management system including policy, standards and the HS&W audit programme -Improvement - reviewing performance, learning lessons, to include responsibility for day to day management of litigation, Root cause analysis, Trending and corrective and preventative action You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, when required, with prior notice

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.