Head of Health & Safety

Do you have the energy and passion to drive health and safety across NWAS? NWAS are looking for a Head of Health and Safety to act as the trust's competent person for health and safety as the recognised expert for analysing levels of health and safety practices across the organisation and providing professional advice.

The Head of Health and Safety will develop, manage and monitor the annual health and safety plan which ensures demonstrating compliance with health and safety legislation for the trust in meeting its statutory and regulatory obligations. You will need to have excellent leadership skills to support both the trust and the health and safety team to move forwards to achieve their objectives.

You will play an integral role in strengthening health and safety with integrated governance, risk and assurance perspective; this will include the identification of residual risk from risk assessments and other activities to inform risk management processes, and the connection between incident management and the improvement of staff safety.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as the competent person as described under the terms of Regulation 7 of the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and is responsible for ensuring organisational compliance with statutory duties.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring the Trust has effective policies, systems and processes in place to meet the obligations and requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act and associated Regulations.

The post holder will take the lead role in the organisation for all matters of health & safety and associated underpinning legislative requirements. This includes the provision of health and safety reports and information to senior meetings internally and externally.The post holder will promote leadership and ownership of Health & Safety management throughout the organisation to ensure that risks are managed as an integral part of business delivery.

Using expert Health and Safety knowledge, the post-holder is responsible for advising managers, representatives and colleagues on any/all issues relating to health and safety at work, and for the development, delivery and co-ordination of health and safety training for colleagues.

To provide sources of assurance on Health and Safety and the wider compliance agenda for the Trust including providing data for reports and regulatory bodies.

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.

Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.

Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.

We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.