Health and Safety Specialist

4 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom NHS Blood and Transplant Full time

About the Role

This is a highly varied position at NHS Blood and Transplant where you will have the scope to make a considerable impact on the wellbeing of our staff. Working with all levels of the organisation, you will deliver evidence-led health, safety and wellbeing (HS&W) advice. You will help staff to understand how they can balance their patient safety and service delivery priorities with legal compliance and their own HS&W, becoming a trusted partner to their work. You will identify gaps in knowledge and deliver training courses to up to 15 people, and you will be a trusted expert when sharing your findings via reports. You will determine how legislation will affect policy, taking specialist responsibilities for risk, assurance or improvement. You will deliver practical solutions to complex challenges, whether communicating one-on-one with staff regarding work-related stress, working with colleagues to inspect the scene of a workplace accident, or collaborating with the Trade Unions to enable constructive conversations.

Main Duties of the Job

In this role, you will be required to provide a professional Health, Safety and Wellbeing service to managers and staff. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Planning with directorates, facilitating consultation, providing accurate and timely advice
  • Assessing training needs and delivering training
  • Encouraging effective working between Occupational Health, Human Resources and Managers
  • Engaging and influencing senior managers, HS&W performance reporting
  • Working with Directorates on HS&W improvement initiatives over a large geographical area supported by HS&W Advisors
  • Providing additional support for specialist areas as required by Head of Health and Safety Policy and Planning. The specialist areas are: Risk, Assurance and Improvement.
  • Risk - profiling NHSBT HS&W risk to include Residual Risk reduction, producing national model risk assessments, and trending
  • Assurance - measuring performance, investigating accidents and incidents, to include maintenance of the H&S management system including policy, standards and the HS&W audit programme
  • Improvement - reviewing performance, learning lessons, to include responsibility for day to day management of litigation, Root cause analysis, Trending and corrective and preventative action
  • You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, when required, with prior notice

About You

Experience and Knowledge

  • Experience as a Health and Safety Advisor providing advice, training, auditing, policy formation, facilitating consultation and planning
  • Experience of working for a multi-site organisation
  • Experience of accident investigation, inspections and audit
  • Experience of working closely with occupational health to find practical and effective workplace solutions
  • Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Qualifications and Training

  • Post graduate qualification to master's level (this could include a NEBOSH Diploma) in occupational health and safety or equivalent relevant qualification OR equivalent experience
  • Possession of Chartered Safety Practitioner with the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health or working towards
  • Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD)

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