Head of Health

2 months ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) is seeking to recruit a senior Health and Safety professional with significant experience in risk management.

This position is responsible for the strategic leadership and management of Health and Safety Trust-wide; and Risk Management for health and safety and the Estates & Facilities division.

Communication and relationship-building with internal and external stakeholders at all levels is key in this role.

Leading the Trusts dedicated Health and Safety Team you will supply specialist advice & consultancy to all staff on matters relating to Health and Safety. e.g. Risk Assessment, COSHH, Safer Sharps & Safe Systems of Work; promote learning from incident investigations from both internal incidents & those occurring across the NHS & other industries where applicable; conduct research, deliver a fit testing programme to all relevant staff, develop and disseminate policies required to meet health and safety compliance for the Trust, ensuring that there is a system for the review of Trust health and safety related policies and procedures.

In line with current policy, working time may be split between Trust Acute & Community sites and/or homeworking with agreement from your line manager.
- Responsible for the strategic leadership and management of Health & Safety Trust-wide.
- To be the “competent person” for Corporate Health and Safety for the Trust.
- Plan and implement health & safety related training and education to ensure safe, effective practice, compliance with policies/procedures, risk management systems, etc.
- Undertaking incident investigations preparing reports for management where necessary and make recommendations to reduce the likelihood of recurrence. Be the lead investigator for the serious incidents.
- Promoting learning from incident investigations from both internal incident and those occurring across the NHS and other industries where applicable to the Trusts business.
- Work with the Legal Services Team on all non-clinical litigation cases associated with Health & Safety.
- Line-manage the Health and Safety Manager and Fit Testing Manager.
- To manage the Trust’s fit-testing service and ensure that the Trust complies with the minimum DH&SC resilience principles.
- Providing specialist advice and consultancy to all staff on matters relating to Health and Safety. e.g. Risk Assessment, COSHH, Safer Sharps and Safe Systems of Work.
- For the research, development and dissemination of policies required to meet the needs health & safety for the Trust and ensuring that there is a system for the review of Trust health and safety related policies and procedures.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.


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