Health and Safety Coordinator | Spire Bushey | Fixed Term Contract 6 Months| Full Time
Spire Bushey has a great opportunity for a Health and safety coordinator to join the Spire Healthcare facilities team on Fixed Term contract for 6 Months
Job Purpose
1. To support the Health and Safety Officer in coordinating and implementing the delivery of Health, Safety and Risk strategies at the facility
2. Assisting the Health and Safety officer in ensuring the provision of high quality and safe care and services at all times.
3. Promote a positive culture of health and safety in the workplace.
Overall Responsibilities
4. All administration requirements for the maintenance of the Health & Safety Management System folder.
5. Collation of H&S incidents from Datix reports. Trends, near misses, etc.
6. Redirecting of general enquiries that are sent to the Health and Safety Officer, to members of the health and safety team as required.
7. To deal with telephone queries, directing calls to the appropriate H&S person, taking messages or dealing with the enquiry in a professional and efficient manner.
8. Updating local health and safety arrangements / policies as required and distributing throughout the facility
9. Maintenance of Hospital Wide Action Plan spread sheet, and follow up on outstanding actions as directed by the Health and Safety officer
10. Administration of the Health &Safety Flash alerts, responding to central health and safety team within the time frame of 7 days and collation of departmental responses
11. Health & Safety Training - records administrator; assist with course registration, issuing certificates as required.
12. Advise the Health and Safety Officer if actions or risk assessments are not being managed in a timely manner.
13. Take minutes and distribute minutes of all Health and Safety meetings. Including, Water, Fire, Waste Management and Safety Representatives meetings.
14. Assisting the Health and Safety Officer in the conducting of quarterly hospital wide health and safety monitoring inspections.
15. Assisting the Health and Safety Officer in ensuring that there are adequate induction health and safety training arrangements (including first day fire safety instruction) in place for staff employed at, or routinely working at the facility, and other staff working at the location. This will include agency staff, consultants and staff employed by consultants.
16. Coordinating or arranging safety training and monitoring training % of mandatory eLearning health and safety related training.
17. Assisting with health and safety questions that arise from internal audits and visits by external enforcement agencies.
18. Additional specific tasks maybe required as directed by the Health & Safety Officer.
Qualifications, Training and experience
Good standard of secondary education with demonstrable literacy and numeracy skills.
IOSH Managing Safely / IOSH Working Safely course
Previous experience working in the healthcare industry or a similar customer orientated organisation.
At least 3 years administration experience
Benefits:
We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
19. 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
20. Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
21. ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
22. Free Bupa wellness screening
23. Private medical insurance
24. Life assurance
Our Values:
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
25. Driving clinical excellence
26. Doing the right thing
27. Caring is our passion.
28. Keeping it simple
29. Delivering on our promises
30. Succeeding and celebrating together
We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.