Corporate Health and Safety Manager

Corporate Health and Safety Manager London, England

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time London, England 51488 - 57802 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 14 month secondment/fixed term contract for the Corporate Health and Safety Manager within Trust. Working under the Head of Corporate Health and Safety.

The successful candidate will support senior colleagues to lead on the development of the health and safety agenda for Trust, including supporting the completion of risk assessments, delivering competent advice, training staff and managing the Trust Health and Safety Risk Register.

They will provide training, management, leadership and support to all Trust staff in Health and Safety to ensure the organisation maintains an effective and pro-active health and safety management culture and will work alongside the senior colleagues to develop and maintain robust systems, including policies, procedures and risk assessments and to ensure that the Trust is compliant with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

The successful candidate will be expected to have an exceptionally high level of interpersonal and communication skills.

The successful candidate will support senior colleagues to lead on the development of the health and safety agenda for Trust, including supporting the completion of risk assessments, delivering competent advice, training staff and managing the Trust Health and Safety Risk Register.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.

Together with senior colleagues, to oversee the provision of professional expertise, advice and guidance on all matters relating to Health and Safety and act as the nominated “competent person” for the Trust on all aspects of Health and Safety.

To support the co-ordination of specific health and safety workstreams for the Trust and acting as the lead in reporting outcomes to relevant committees.

To support the delivery of a programme of visits across the Trust for carrying out audits and assessments and following up health and safety related incidents.

Provide expert advice and guidance to senior colleagues regarding national and local developments in health and safety legislation, guidance and practice and to provide briefings for senior staff as appropriate.

To support the principal health and safety specialist in providing expert advice and in supporting clinical, operational and management staff on best practice risk management methodologies and the processes to identify, assess, mitigate and escalate health and safety risks.

Support the work of Divisional Health and Safety Managers in making sure that they work closely with operational managers and Heads of Quality Governance to ensure they have robust health and safety management arrangements in place in line with Trust policy.

Ensuring that all relevant Trust Health and Safety policies and procedures are up to date and relevant, supporting the design, development and implementation of any new policies required as legislation is introduced or changed. Ensuring that such policies and procedures dovetail with the Trust Risk Management Strategy and are compliant with associated standards

To support senior colleagues in reviewing, identifying and interpreting legislative developments, best practice and guidance ensuring that this is communicated to key staff and that appropriate actions are put into place. Similarly, to support the review of outcomes of audits of Trust services where Health and Safety compliance implications arise to ensure that learning is identified and actions taken

To support the co-ordination of the work of the Corporate Health and Safety Group and support the work of Divisional H&S Managers in managing the same function at Divisional level.

Working co-operatively with other members of the Safety and wider Quality Governance team to ensure that issues identified are reviewed and triangulated with other assurance information to support improvement.

Corporate Health and Safety Manager
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

www.cnwl.nhs.uk
London, United Kingdom
Claire Murdoch
$100 to $500 million (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Company - Public
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
2002
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