Health & Safety Advisor

The Estates Shared Service; Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) and Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) is looking to recruit a Health and Safety Advisor.

The post holder will provide support to the Health & Safety Team; serving the needs of LPFT, LCHS, and other partnerships. The Health & Safety Advisor is a vital member of our team; and will work closely with senior colleagues, Exec leads and ICS colleagues contributing to the overall delivery of statutory H&S compliance, Trust policy, and Best Value engineering methods/practices.

The Health and Safety Advisor will support the Health & Safety Manager to ensure that the Trust fulfils its compliance obligations and H&S duties; ensuring that the delivery of a comprehensive range of high-quality Healthcare services are provided by staff who are suitably-qualified, trained, and fully supported. The services will be delivered in line with all relevant legislation, regulation and guidance appertaining to the field of work.

If you feel that you have the right skills and you are keen to develop then we look forward to hearing from you.

Act as one of the Trust’s competent ‘persons’ for health and safety in accordance with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Support the Health and Safety Manager when developing, reviewing and implementing the Trust’s Health and Safety policy, associated guidance documents and safe systems of work.

Undertake accident, incident and near miss investigations and to identify potential gaps or lessons learned.

Regularly undertake health and safety inspections and audits and prepare relevant reports on findings.

Respond to day-to-day health and safety issues and escalate significant issues and actions taken to the Health and Safety Manager

Assist in ensuring sound risk management procedures and hazard identification systems are in place.

Drive a positive health and safety culture throughout the Trust.

Work closely with staff to support the review of risk assessments to ensure they are suitable and sufficient and meet the Trust Standard

Develop and deliver health and safety information, instruction and training as appropriate.

Contribute to the effective use of Datix including the management of risk registers and assessments.

Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas as determined by the Health and Safety Manager

Prepare health and safety reports as and when required.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Act as one of the Trust’s competent ‘persons’ for health and safety in accordance with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Provide advice and guidance to managers on all health and safety issues.

Support the Health and Safety Manager when developing, reviewing and implementing the Trust’s Health and Safety policy, associated guidance documents and safe systems of work.

Undertake accident, incident and near miss investigations and to identify potential gaps or lessons learned.

Support the Legal Team in the investigation and management of public liability claims when required.

Regularly undertake health and safety inspections and audits and prepare relevant reports on findings.

Respond to day-to-day health and safety issues and escalate significant issues and actions taken to the Health and Safety Manager

Assist in ensuring sound risk management procedures and hazard identification systems are in place.

Drive a positive health and safety culture throughout the Trust.

Work closely with staff to support the review of risk assessments to ensure they are suitable and sufficient and meet the Trust Standard

Develop and deliver health and safety information, instruction and training as appropriate.

Contribute to the effective use of Datix including the management of risk registers and assessments.

Interrogate health and safety accident a