Working as part of a multidisciplinary Health and Safety team, the Health and Safety Advisor will support key functions of service delivery, ensuring that both Trusts meet their legal and regulatory obligations.,

• Promote a positive Health and Safety culture throughout the Trusts, ensuring good standards of Health and Safety are implemented and maintained across a large complex acute NHS Trust.
• Participate in undertaking a program of Health and Safety audits and inspections for healthcare premises and Trust teams communicating findings throughout the relevant care groups/divisions/committees.
• Provide specialist advice and support to all levels of staff on Health and Safety management, ensuring compliance with current legislation and best practice.
• Advise and support managers and Health and Safety leads in the completion of risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Undertake accident and incident investigations, reviewing trends for thematic learning, prevention, and improvement.
• Support with Health and Safety training needs by delivering appropriate training packages throughout the organisation to a wide audience/staff group.
  
  Our vision for Single Corporate ServicesIsle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) have a shared vision of a single corporate service across our two organisations, supported by a single set of identical systems and processes, under joint leadership, to drive significant efficiencies, improve employee experience, and return time to patient care.
This vacancy is part of the Single Corporate Services Division. Why are we changing the way we deliver Corporate Services?Working as a partnership, both IWT and PHU have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. The creation of a single corporate service is essential for us to support our clinical and operational services, and our wider transformation programme. The vision for our single corporate services is to:
• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.