Health and Safety Advisor

Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

We are delighted to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for you to be a key member of the UHS Health & Safety Services Department as the Trust’s Health & Safety Adviser.  We are looking for a dynamic enthusiastic self-starter who will deliver the operational implementation of the Trust’s health and safety services to support our staff to work safely and provide excellent, world class patient care. The role has a diverse portfolio, working with multidisciplinary professionals across the Trust, where no two days are the same.

The Health & Safety Services Department is part of the wider patient and staff safety team who are enthusiastic specialist advisers and trainers who advise and support the Trust to keep its staff and patients safe . We work Monday to Friday during core business hours (8am to 5pm), with some occasional out-of-hours working

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will have designated responsibility as the Trust’s health and safety specialist, providing advice, guidance, support and training for staff at all levels across the organisation.

You will influence and motivate others to work safely and follow best practice and promote a positive safety culture across the Trust.

You will have a lead role in the following; -    Investigating, monitoring and analysis of adverse events (accidents and incidents) affecting staff, including reporting to the HSE under RIDDOR -    development and delivery of health and safety-related education and training programmes for all levels of staff -    directly supporting and working with local H&S Leads across the Trust -    development and review of policies, procedures, guidance and risk assessments relating to staff health and safety -    providing reports to local care group H&S committees, divisional governance teams and the Corporate Health and Safety Committee -    monitoring and auditing of health and safety compliance.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR We are looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic health and safety professional with management experience. You will need to have experience in writing risk assessments and action plans, managing audit and inspection programmes as well as experience of facilitating, administration and delivery of health and safety teaching and training. A professional qualification and experience is essential (e.g. Certified/Chartered membership of IOSH or equivalent). You will have excellent interpersonal, communication, organising and planning skills, together with very good IT skills, being proficient in all Microsoft Office applications.  You will work across all sites so will need to be able to access transport.