Acting Health & Safety Advisor
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area Health & SafetyGrade NHS AfC: Band 5Contract months (Secondment: months)Hours Full time - hours per week (Mon - Fir 9am until 5pm)Job ref -COR-9- Site Kingsway HouseTown DerbySalary £, - £, per annum, pro rataSalary period YearlyClosing //5 :
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for a Health & Safety Advisor to join the Health, Safety, Fire & Security Team.
This is a dynamic role, for months Secondment, and will involve working across all Trust sites throughout Derbyshire. You will play a key part in supporting the Head of Health & Safety, Fire and Security, in relation to Health & Safety matters. This includes ensuring compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 4 and NHS Fire code standards.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will
1. Provide professional advice on all Health & Safety / Incident prevention matters relating to staff and premises
2. Undertake Heath & Safety Audits, write policy, develop safe systems of work, accident/incident investigations and to provide safety advice to all staff.
3. You will also develop and deliver Health & Safety training in line with the training needs analysis for the Trust, this will include face to face, e-learning and Risk Assessment training to ensure compliance with all relevant Safety legislation and guidance, in particular the The Management at Work Regulations 9 and related Department of Health, Health Technical Memorandums.
4. The above will apply to all Trust sites including areas that work in other Trusts buildings.
Working for our organisation
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."
“As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visa’s and Immigration. Please note without previous NHS Service you will commence at the bottom of the pay band which currently does not meet the minimum salary requirement for sponsorship for this post. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the website ”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will:
5. Demonstrate the Trust’s values in everything you do in the work environment and live up to DHCFT’s Trust Values
6. Support the delivery of Effective Healthcare within the organisation
7. Establishing Effective Leadership and Communication
8. Showcase continuing Education, Professional and Personal Development
9. Undertake the Trust’s corporate and local induction, and maintain your learning and compliance with training requirements for your role
10. Participate in supervision via agreed review and appraisal mechani
11. Operate with Quality in everything you do and Maintaining a Safe Environment
12. Assist the Head of Health, Safety, Fire and Security to lead the organisation in promoting a positive health and safety culture, supporting all Directorates, ensuring a visible presence
13. Planning for health and safety including the setting of realistic short and long term objectives.
14. Formulating and developing a range of health and safety policies, including performance managing delivery of those policies.
15. To introduce controls and monitoring arrangements to ensure policies and procedures are correctly implemented.
16. Undertake and oversee accident incident investigation, reporting and undertaking analysis of health and safety and incidents as soon as they occur in order to assist with denial/swift settlement of claims, reporting externally to the HSE (RIDDOR) where applicable.
17. Review of performance and audit of the whole health and safety management system.
18. Line manage in the absence of the Head of Health, Safety, Fire and Security and co-ordinate the workload and set priorities for health and safety Services.
19. Control, as identified, any capital monies allocated for the purpose of improving Health and Safety and reducing Ligature risks.
20. Manage and use of Resources and Information Formulating, developing and implementing the Trust Health and Safety strategy and policy. Providing specialist advice to directors and senior managers and front line staff as necessary.
21. Assist setting health and safety objectives and monitor and review their performance against those objectives.
It is mandatory for all professionally qualified staff and clinical support staff to actively participate in clinical supervision as an integral part of their professional development
All records that the role is responsible for or modifies must be kept up to date and maintained in an accurate and diligent manner
The post of Health and Safety Advisor exists to fulfil the Trust’s obligation and commitment to provide competent health and safety legislative advice to the Trust and employees, and as required independent contractors. Ensuring that the Trust has systems in place to enable it to demonstrate compliance with this legislation.
Person specification
Trust Values
Essential criteria
22. People First
23. Respect
24. Honesty
25. Do Your best
Qualifications
Essential criteria
26. NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent, NEBOSH Diploma or working towards
27. Member of Institue of Occupational Safety and Health or working towards
28. Evidence of continued professional development and knowledge underpinned by theory and experience
Desirable criteria
29. Driving licence
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
30. Practical experience of health and Safety management system implementation and accident prevention
31. Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, Risk assessment and Incident Investigation techniques
32. Ability to influence change and the implementation of compliance in respect to health and safety legislation under the Health and Safety at Work Act 4 etc.
33. Experience in using Microsoft Office software and incident reporting databases
34. Excellent organisational skills /ability to manage own time
35. Ability to communicate and influence at all levels
36. Demonstrate presentation skills
Desirable criteria
37. Knowledge/understanding of services provided by organisation and workings of the health and social care economy
38. Support and as necessary lead specific projects, tasks, and groups
39. Demonstrate knowledge of NHS standards, Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) and Health Building Notes (HBN), health and safety regulations / DoH systems relating to health and safety
Experience
Essential criteria
40. Demonstrate working on a wide variety of health and safety issues
41. Act as organisation advocate Liaising with solicitors, external bodies HSE, CQC, local authorities etc
42. Health and Safety Committee experience or equivalent
43. Experience of producing papers for committees
44. Experience in policy formulation and implementation
45. Experience of accident investigations and producing accident reports
46. Experience of creating, delivering, and evaluating training to diverse audiences
47. Act as expert advisor at Trust meetings
48. Experience of producing performance reports
49. Ability to work on own initiative
50. Highly motivated
51. Excellent people skills
52. Excellent verbal and written skills, enabling complex technical aspects of health and safety to be communicated in a style that colleagues can comprehend and implement
53. Experience in analysing data and making own judgement to influence service delivery in a variety of complex environments
Desirable criteria
54. Out of hours flexibility
55. Recognise the value of networking, established and nurturing productive relationships using adaptive styles to influence others towards goals
Further details / informal visits contact
NameCarrina GauntJob titleHead of Health & Safety, Fire and SecurityEmail numberAdditional information
Richard Tomlinson
NC Fire Safety