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 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.