Health and Safety Advisor

The main purpose of the job is to provide specialist health and safety advice to Central and North West London NHS Trust, demonstrating a significant knowledge of the legislation and regulatory framework, including NHS guidelines. The post-holders will also be responsible for the provision of high quality health and safety training to Trust staff.
Post-holders will be responsible for supporting the development, implementation and communication of all health and safety related strategies, policies and procedures in order to ensure compliance with national standards and best practice., Provide expert advice, support, training and leadership on all aspects of health and safety

• Support the Safety & Resilience Manager in the development of an annual work plan in line with the needs of the organisation and statutory requirements.


• In liaison with the Safety & Resilience Manager, ensure the Trust is made aware of new applicable legislation and guidance as it arises.


• Investigate health and safety incidents, including Serious Untoward Incident (SUI) to identify relevant root causes, risk management strategies and support the sharing of lessons learnt


• Deliver interventions aimed at mitigating the risk to the health and safety of staff and others and improving the outcomes in relation to patient, staff and visitor safety.


• Support the development, monitoring, implementation and review of strategies, policies and procedures to promote and develop safe systems of work for the Trust, liaising with appropriate managers to support compliance with statutory responsibilities.


• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Risk Registers, maintaining an oversight on the implementation of strategic actions required to mitigate risks.


• Support Service Managers and other stakeholders in ensuring the Trust's health and safety processes meet the business requirements of the organisation and the local needs of services, Support the implementation, monitoring and compliance with other action plans resulting from audits undertaken by other department or external organisations, including statutory returns to external regulatory bodies


• Support the Safety & Resilience Manager to ensure corporate policies, processes and procedures are regularly reviewed and updated to meet relevant requirements.


• Produce regular reports for Divisional and Corporate Health and Safety Groups, providing an effective overview of the Trust performance against key indicators for health and safety.


• Upon request, produce reports to analyse health and safety related data, draw conclusions and make recommendations on appropriate actions to be taken.


• Support the Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Manager to ensure that appropriate plans are in place and provide support to local managers in reviewing these.


• Represent the Trust's health and safety function at external meetings, forums and seminars.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
ORGANISATIONAL COMMITTMENT
Our Vision is: "We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing. Together we look at ways of improving an individual's quality of life, through high quality healthcare and personal support".

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
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