Safety Coordinator

6 days ago

Porton Down, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 344868**Salary**:

- £38,724 - £44,393- per annum- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- SEO National**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Health and Safety
- Science**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Porton DownAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Safety Coordinator**

**SEO National - £38,724 - £44,393 per annum**

**Based at UKHSA Porton Down**

**Permanent Contract**

As a Safety Coordinator, you will join a team of dedicated professionals who are working on cutting-edge research and development of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics for infectious diseases. You will work closely with the Vaccine Development, Evaluation and Preparedness Division and the Diagnostic and Pathogen Characterisation Centre at Porton, which together have about 300 staff and are responsible for preparing and coordinating responses to potential healthcare emergencies, such as bioterrorism.

You will ensure that we adhere to all relevant Health and Safety and Bio-security laws and regulations, as well as our own Corporate Health and Safety policies and procedures. You will also support our department’s research activities, which span both basic and applied research on diseases such as TB, meningitis, anthrax, plague, SARs/COVID and more. Some of our work requires high containment level facilities, so you will need to be comfortable working in such environments.

**Location**

**Based at UKHSA Porton Down - due to the nature of the role, you will be expected to be based on-site on a full time basis**
- *Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.*_

**Working Pattern - **Full Time

**Job description**:
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:

- Ensure the timely progression of health and safety actions arising from incidents investigation, inspections, and audits
- Ensure that regular inspection programmes (e.g. quarterly H&S inspections, visual electrical checks etc.) are carried out.
- Contribute to the system of auditing and seeking assurance of health and safety in accordance with UKHSA polices and procedure and the H&S plan
- Have an overview of data entry onto the Trackwise system, as applied to H&S incidents and near misses, to ensure the quality of reports and the appropriate root cause analysis and progression of actions
- Produce regular H&S reports for management as required
- Contribute to the development of H&S standards and systems applied to Research
- Assist the department project teams to ensure planned review of all risk assessments, to ensure that they are suitable, sufficient and in date
- Participate and lead as necessary in emergency and unplanned events, this may include participating in investigations of accidents and incidents as necessary
- To identity, coordinate and deliver (where appropriate) H&S training requirements, including safety inductions, and ensure that they are implemented

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

**_ Please see job description attached for full list of duties and competencies associated with the post._**

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**:
**Essential**
- Knowledge/experience of industry safety requirements
- Experience of laboratory safety. Experience of containment microbiology and working with pathogens
- Proficient in analysing and presenting key information both orally and as part of reports'
- Leadership - able to motivate others, encourage teamwork, delegate, and get the best out of people
- Proficient in analysing and presenting key information both orally and as part of reports

**Desirable**
- Evidence of H&S qualification OR undertaking (NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent OR experience of undertaking a local Health and Safety role
- Registration with H&S professional body
- Experience and understanding of project management

**_
Please ensure that your statement of suitability does not contain any personal identifiers such as Name, Gender, Location, Marital Status, Sexual Orientation or Religion. The UKHSA operates a fair and open recruitment policy._**

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £38,724, UK Health Security Agency contributes £10,455 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an av

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