Health & Safety Advisor-Estates & Facilities | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Health & Safety Advisor who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. As a Health & Safety Advisor you will be appointed to provide expert advice, assistance, and support to all levels of the organisation as required under relevant statutory provisions. The post holder will be required to exercise their unique professional judgement to influence decision making at all levels and ensure the Trust can meet compliance or mitigate residual risks The Health and Safety Advisor will work closely with the Safety & Security Manager and key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, to review performance and identify risk reduction priorities, contributing to the formulation of the Trusts health and safety plans. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Undertake and provide support to all areas of the Trust in the development and implementation of uniquely complex Health and Safety risk assessments and its process to identify hazards and advice on remedial actions to be taken and the implementation of control measures to effectively manage the identified risks. Provide a visible, accessible presence in all service areas across the wider Trust and deploy communication, engagement and influencing skills to convey complex and potentially contentious information to a variety of stakeholders in both formal and informal settings. Work on own initiative to make judgements and decisions and take any necessary action in relation to Health and Safety issues in line with associated legislation, direction, and Trust policy. Liaise with specialist managers, including Risk Management, Fire Safety, Manual Handling, Security, Head of Capital Planning and Estates, Health@work, Legal Services, and Infection Prevention regarding their specialist areas and provide expert health and safety advice /information.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.