Senior Health, Safety and Security Advisor

Job overview

Are you an experienced health, safety and security professional looking for an opportunity to lead and influence safety strategy across a large and complex healthcare organisation?

We are seeking an exceptional leader to take responsibility for the development, implementation and delivery of the Trust's Fire, Health and Safety, Security and Contractor Management arrangements. This is a pivotal role that will ensure the Trust continues to provide a safe, secure and compliant environment for patients, staff, visitors and contractors.

As the Trust's subject matter expert, you will provide strategic leadership, professional advice and operational assurance across all sites, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, NHS guidance and Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards.

Working closely with senior leaders and operational teams, you will lead the development of robust governance frameworks, ensuring risks are identified, assessed and effectively managed. You will play a key role in supporting the Trust's responsibilities relating to safeguarding, infection prevention and control, risk management and incident investigation.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the Trust's Fire Safety, Health and Safety, Security and Contractor Management functions.
• Develop and implement strategic policies, procedures and assurance frameworks to maintain compliance and best practice.
• Provide expert advice to the Board, Executive Team and senior managers on safety, security and compliance matters.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements, including NHS standards and CQC expectations.
• Maintain effective systems for risk management, monitoring, auditing and reporting across the Trust.
• Lead investigations into significant incidents and support organisational learning and continuous improvement.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to promote a positive culture of safety and security.
• Support the Trust in delivering its responsibilities for safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and wider risk management arrangements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.  The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.