Responsibilities
* Reporting to the Senior Health and Safety Manager.
* Managing Health and Safety across the Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
* Implementing and managing ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
* Providing assurance through continual auditing, monitoring and review of statutory obligations.
* Developing, implementing, managing and monitoring policies and procedures relating to Occupational Health and Safety.
* Managing key risks to minimise impact and likelihood via mitigation plans, business continuity, emergency preparedness, response and recovery.
* Promoting a strong safety culture throughout the Trust.
* Delivering delegated health, safety related projects to agreed programme, budget and quality, working to recognised Project Management standards.
* Attending and actively contributing to relevant groups, boards, committees and meetings across the Trust.
* Providing competent professional advice.
* Developing and maintaining a risk‑driven audit programme.
* Working with the Trust legal team to analyse and investigate claims.
* Ensuring health and safety codes of practice, policies, procedures and standards are in place and updated regularly.
* Identifying and developing training with support of the Health and Safety Training Manager.
* Monitoring and evaluating performance via a programme of audits.
* Supporting development of leading and lagging indicators and monitoring performance against them.
* Implementing and operationally maintaining ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard.
* Preparing and providing reports to relevant groups, committees and boards.
* Overseeing and maintaining the health and safety internet site.
* Coordinating a programme of health and safety tours and inspections.
* Actively working with Trade Unions and their nominated Safety Representatives.
* Assurance reporting.
* Coordinating freedom of information requests.
* Coordinating development of risk‑driven audit programme with SMART action plans.
* Day‑to‑day managing the divisional/corporate Health and Safety support team.
* Liaising with outside agencies on Health and Safety.
* Providing operational support to Divisional and Corporate staff in completing risk assessments and implementing control measures.
* Providing Health and Safety advice primarily to Divisional and Corporate staff, and to the wider Trust when necessary.
* Developing Health and Safety information resources via the Trust health and safety web site.
* Supporting all Divisional and Corporate managers to embed a safety culture.
* Leading development, promotion and maintenance of a healthy and safe working environment for patients.
* Providing advice and guidance on health, safety and risk to Divisional and Corporate Directors, Heads of Department and relevant staff.
* Working with procurement to influence standards through the procurement process.
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level in Health, Health and Safety or Risk Management.
* Post‑graduate qualification or equivalent.
* NEBOSH National Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management.
* Evidence of commitment to continued professional development, ideally through a recognised professional body.
* Holds chartered membership of a professional health and safety body (e.g. IOSH or equivalent).
* NEBOSH Fire and Risk Management (Desirable).
* NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management (Desirable).
* NEBSOH Construction Certificate (Desirable).
* Recognised qualification in auditing (e.g. ISO 45001 Internal Auditor Training Course or equivalent).
* Recognised management qualification or demonstrable experience.
* Demonstrable experience of successfully managing complex Health and Safety issues in a unionised environment, including development and management of an H&S system.
* Highly experienced in the provision of written and oral communication at all levels of the organisation.
* Experience of analysing data and coherently reporting information to senior colleagues.
* Experience promoting a positive health and safety culture, and implementing improvements.
* A proven track record of successfully managing a robust auditing and monitoring regime.
* Able to provide high‑quality professional advice on H&S matters and support senior line managers to embed a “safety culture” into daily activities.
* Experience of commissioning and analysing data to suggest and implement positive changes to safety and regulatory compliance.
* Experience of implementing and managing ISO 45001.
* Experience promoting a positive Health & Safety, regulatory and compliance culture and implementing improvements in related practices.
* Experience of commissioning and delivering auditing of safety and regulatory systems and processes.
* Experience of health and safety policy development, implementation and monitoring.
* Experience of effective budgetary management (Desirable).
* Experience of working with outside agencies (Desirable).
* Experience of working in the Healthcare Sector (Desirable).
* Understanding of governance (Desirable).
* Experience of chairing meetings (Desirable).
* Experience of the development and maintenance of a risk register (Desirable).
* Experience of applying risk management techniques (Desirable).
* Experience in project management and budget preparation; ability to develop and implement training programmes for managers and other staff (Desirable).
* Experience of health and safety planning (Desirable).
* Experience of managing staff.
* In‑depth knowledge of health & safety legislation and application.
* Ability to work on own initiative and to make decisions within the framework of established policies, procedures and standards.
* Computer literate: MS Office, particularly Word and Excel.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills and proven ability to influence and persuade senior colleagues of the importance of fire safety.
* Ability to write and implement health and safety policy and procedure.
* Ability to plan and deliver an effective health and safety audit programme.
* Ability to analyse information and data relating to complex situations and to communicate findings clearly and precisely.
* Good document and report‑writing, committed to the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical risk management.
* Self‑motivated, able to work under pressure, and to work with minimal supervision to achieve agreed objectives and deadlines.
* Dependability, reliability, punctuality and consistent ability to produce a high‑quality/quantity of work.
* Ability to prioritise/organise personal workloads, meet deadlines and reach decisions quickly and accurately.
* Ability to communicate at all levels and provide a clear understanding of the importance of Health & Safety.
* Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate skills.
* Able to build effective working relationships with a wide range of people internally and externally (e.g. with enforcement agency inspectors).
* Able to deal calmly and effectively with emergencies and potentially difficult situations, sometimes without additional assistance.
* Adopts a proactive approach to the management of health and safety, and is responsive to colleague queries and requests for assistance, dealing with them in a helpful, informative and timely manner.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
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