Health and Safety Coordinator

We have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and enthusiastic professional to join our Health and Safety Team as a Health and Safety Coordinator.

To ensure that Provide Community has a managed and coordinated approach to the implementation of health and safety legislation providing a safe environment for staff, patients, residents, contractors, visitors and any users of Provide Community sites.

To work with the Health, Safety, Fire and Security Manager in all duties relating to health and safety and the Estates Compliance Manager across the Provide Community Group to ensure proactive and reactive safety management arrangements are supported.

The ideal individual for this post will ideally have a Health and Safety qualification (e.g. NEBOSH Certificate) or a willingness to undertake. They should also be registered with a relevant professional body such as IOSH and/or IIRSM and have a proven track record advising on Health and Safety in a large complex organisation (preferably healthcare) or in process of obtaining.

The individual must be able to work autonomously to support clinical and corporate services in identifying realistic solutions to health and safety issues and must have some demonstrable experience in training, mentoring and directly supervising other staff. In return, the role offers good development to someone looking to build a solid health and safety career.

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
**Vision**: Transforming Lives

**Values**: Care, Innovation and Compassion

**Mission**: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.

Eligible for NHS Pension

Operational Management
- Contribute to the overall delivery and development of the health and safety strategy across Provide Community.
- Develop a health and safety site inspection and robust schedule for undertaking site inspections across Provide Community in conjunction with the Compliance Manager. Where deficiencies are found through the audits, the respective local managers are informed and action plans formulated to rectify areas of non-compliance.
- Develop with the Health Safety, Fire and Security Manager H&S forum and Health and Safety Champions across Provide Group.
- Assist local managers to develop procedures that support effective health safety and risk management for their respective areas of control.
- Support operational managers to enable them to undertake their responsibilities in respect of health, safety and risk issues
- To report RIDDOR incidents to the Health and Safety Executive and assist service managers to investigate appropriately, as required.
- The post holder will work directly with multidisciplinary staff at various levels, to support staff through Health and Safety, DSE, Manual Handling and COSHH assessment process and provide support to departments to maintain the COSHH risk assessments and provide advice to maintain safe storage.
- To support and provide cover for the Health, Safety, Fire and Security Manager as required
- Assist with the production, monitoring and review, and the implementation of Health and safety Policies and Procedures throughout Provide Community.
- The logging of risks to health and safety on the corporate risk register and local risk register ensuring action plans are in place to mitigate gaps in control and assurance and that regular review takes place.
- Monitor Lone worker devices and training/support for staff using the operation of the lone worker devices.
- To design and deliver training to individuals and groups of staff on topics relevant to specialist area, e.g. Health & Safety Induction, Health & Safety General Awareness, IOSH Managing Safely, DSE and COSHH, manual handling, this list is not exhaustive.

Communication
- The individual will have effective communication and excellent organisational skills, with advanced IT skills including an in-depth knowledge of database management, Microsoft Word, Excel and