# Senior Health, Safety and Security Advisor > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-health-safety-and-security-advisor/e479625c-495e-4f2f-9fda-ca2c37152a5a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-health-safety-and-security-advisor/e479625c-495e-4f2f-9fda-ca2c37152a5a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Oxford - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Estates and facilities - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-16T10:43:03.382Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Littlemore/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Estates_Facilities/Estates_Facilities-v8133077 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8133077?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Evidence of Accident investigation and lesson learnt and working with stakeholders - Knowledge of Health and Safety and Security legislation, guidance HSG65 and best practice document particularly how it impacts on healthcare premises. **Desirable** - Examples of lessons learn and working with stakeholders ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience in Health and Safety and Security management - Experience in: - Risk assessment and audit - Incident investigation - Contractor management **Desirable** - Knowledge of Construction and CDM regulations ### Qualifications **Essential** - Qualifications - NEBOSH General Certificate, or equivalent - Evidence through scenario base **Desirable** - Knowledge of current HSS legislation - Evidence of working autonomously and managing priorities ## Documents - [band 6 senior health safety and security advisor (pdf, 267.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10430709) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.