Health and Safety Lead

at  The Christie NHS FT

HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT 1. Take the lead specialist role for Health and Safety management in the Trust. 2. Provide professional advice and support in the development of the trusts strategic direction and performance review for health and safety.
3. Provide assurance to the Board of compliance with health and safety statutory duties. 4. Develop and administer procedures to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and best practice guidance.
5. Plan, develop, lead and deliver Trust-wide training sessions for Health & Safety induction, essential training and other relevant sessions according to the trusts training needs analysis and demand. 6. Formulate new Health & Safety policies and procedures and revise existing policies, taking into account changes in legislation and recommendations made by the Health and Safety Executive.
7. Collaborate with the trusts health and safety related subject matter experts, including the Capital, Estates and Facilities Health and Safety Manager/In-house Counsel to ensure robust arrangements are in place throughout the trust to minimise risk. 8. Produce Health & Safety reports, including quarterly reports and an annual report, within required timescales.
9. Investigate reports of non-compliance with health and safety legislation, make recommendations for change if indicated, and support implementation of the changes. 10. Support the investigations and provide specialist support and advice for non-clinical claims against the trust.
11. Maintain systems of auditing and monitoring health and safety, including health and safety self-inspection checklists, across the main and satellite sites to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and best practice and to ensure the environment is of a high standard. Produce subsequent reports and review associated action plans to ensure good progress of health and safety issues. 12.
Investigate and formally report on serious accidents when required, including the identification of a root cause. Ensure appropriate organisations are informed within the required timescales. If necessary, co-operate with the police and HSE under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding for NHS trusts and take responsibility for leading the investigation. This may include exposure to accident scenes and restricted areas anywhere on the trusts sites.
13. Implement and co-ordinate actions required to meet the health and safety-related objectives stated within the Trusts risk management strategy. 13. Lead on, and ensure compliance with, the HSE / CQC / NHS Improvement or other external assurance agencies standards relating to health and safety.
Devise and implement action plans to ensure compliance with these standards. 14. Champion the Trusts health and safety interests at internal and external committee meetings and other forums and chair H&S meetings as appropriate. 15.
Adhere to the IOSH professional code of conduct. 2. RISK MANAGEMENT 1. Support the implementation of the trusts risk management strategy.
2. Participate in Trust-wide committees as required and appointed to 3. Act as lead officer for the H&S Committee, which includes setting agendas, preparing reports, policy reviews and collating relevant information for discussion. OTHER DUTIES 1.
Provide managerial guidance and leadership to staff within the quality and standards team. 2. As required, support the senior management team in disciplinary matters involving the quality and standards team. 3.
Participate in the Duty Manager and on-call rota for the hospital, which involves holding the bleep, addressing any issues that may affect the smooth running of the hospital, and acting as the first contact for queries from other hospitals, the public, patients and staff and to represent the trusts best interests at all times. This will include the authority to declare a major incident and lead the Hospital Control Team until arrival of the Executive Director on call. 4. Act as authorised signatory for stock and non-stock requisitions to a value of £5000 and participate in the procurement process for orders above £5000, including the preparation and presentation of business cases.
5. Undertake training relevant to the post in order to maintain a specialist knowledge base relating to health and safety. 6. Ensure own professional knowledge is regularly updated and keep abreast of recent developments to maintain CPD

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