Band 7 Health and Safety Advisor - Uffculme Centre

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, the largest mental health Trust in the West Midlands, is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic part time (18.75 hours) Health and Safety Advisor to support the Health and Safety team in delivering its Health and Safety strategy and ensuring a high level of compliance with relevant legislation and best practice.This is a key, challenging and rewarding role ideally suited to someone with a real 'can-do' and pragmatic approach. You will be part of a small, high-profile team of health and safety professionals, working on your own initiative and supporting our sites, service areas and departments at an operational level to ensure the safety of staff and service users., Completing a range of health and safety risk assessments, delivering training, providing advice and guidance to staff, completing incident investigations, attending relevant meetings and other duties commensurate with the role.

This job is about building great working relationships and a positive health and safety culture with clinicians, managers and staff right across our diverse organisation. Working with them on issue resolution and advising and guiding them on how to work more safely and efficiently.You will help them balance the requirements of the organisation with best practice by developing and implementing practical, cost effective health and safety systems and solutions, and encouraging behaviours that minimise risk. A persuasive communicator, you will need high levels of enthusiasm combined with good planning and people skills.We are looking for someone with multi-site experience, with practical knowledge of health and safety legislation, plus NEBOSH Diploma and a Degree in a related subject (or equivalent qualifications and experience).

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.