We are seeking a suitably qualified health and safety coordinator to join the Health and Safety team and lead on the day-to-day support given to operational colleagues to ensure they understand what compliance looks like and how to achieve it.
The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.
The responsibilities within this role include (the list is not exhaustive):
Support with escalation meetings between external landlords and managing agents in connection with health and safety compliance.
Supporting internal and external partners with commissioning and decommissioning assets in Supported Living provision and Residential services in respect of health and safety compliance.
Act as a support to the Strategic Lead for H&S to ensure compliance in workplace health and safety and environmental management.
Provide proactive monitoring and specialist advice to our operational teams regarding accidents and incidents within our services.
Work in conjunction with the wider Quality Team to develop emergency response plans ensuring that emergencies, near-misses, and critical situations are appropriately reviewed; and lessons learnt from these reviews are shared across the Trust.
Working with Regional Operations Leads, Registered Managers, the admin team and external contractors to ensure compliance documentation is in place and delivery is in line with required standards.
Work with external Health and Safety specialists (Fire, Water, Electricity, Gas) contractors to ensure that our service level agreements are being adhered to.
Work closely with our Central Support teams to ensure effective development of organisational processes and procedures.
Contributing to internal auditing processes to identify concerns and areas of best practice.
Supporting development of Fire Risk assessments within low-risk settings. For example, offices and low risk-based care settings.
Working with the Quality Improvement Manager team on validating in house regular compliance checks recorded by service managers for example water temps, through a program of planned site visits and inspections.
We recognise the importance of recruiting skilled, compassionate, and reliable staff, whilst demonstrating in practice our commitment to inclusion, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk.Please be aware its a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group such as adults or children. Please note any successful job offer will be conditional based on pre-employment checks such as DBS and referencing prior to a start date agreed. The Wilf Ward Family Trust has a clear commitment to safeguarding within all practices, for more information on criminal discloses you can visit
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