Health & Safety Manager

at  Spire Healthcare

HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGER | SPIRE ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL | CHATHAM | EXCELLENT BENEFITS | PERMANENT | FULL TIME

Spire Alexandra Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Health and Safety Manager to join our team. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week onsite.
As the Hospital Health and Safety Manager you will be responsible for the oversight of the day to day management of health and safety across the Hospital through support and guidance to operational sites. This will require the Health and Safety Addendum roles to be managed at a local hospital level.
Spire The Alexandra Hospital offers world-class care and is part of one of the UK’s most respected private hospital groups. We offer fast access to high-quality healthcare, from consultations and advanced diagnostics to personalised treatments and expert aftercare.

• Advising the Hospital Director, Senior Management Team and the hospital Local Health and Safety Committee on general health and safety matters, seeking further information from the appropriate Group specialists, or retained consultants, as necessary.
• Oversight of the Health and Safety Management System at the hospital to ensure compliance with Spire and H&S regulatory requirements.
• Support through providing guidance and advice to the local hospitals for completion of H&S risk assessments, in accordance with Group policies and activities undertaken at the premises e.g. the use of computer workstations (DSE), manual handling activities of staff and the use of, or exposure to, hazardous materials and agents used during, or arising from work undertaken (CoSHH) risk assessment for health and safety related hazards.
• Act as resource for advice and guidance for colleagues assigned to the H&S addendum roles
• Escalate to local Hospital Director / Senior Management Team if, as a result of risk assessments undertaken or otherwise, outstanding health and safety issues are not being promptly and effectively resolved.
• Monitoring of the quarterly health and safety audits to ensure compliance to HS 02 Local H&S Arrangements. This can take the form of visits to each area to complete the inspection monitoring form (hospital wide assessments), or collating results provided by others, and conducting random sample visits.
• Monitoring local health and safety action plans for timely closure of all actions identified through audits, RCA investigations etc., and escalating issues that are not being promptly and effectively resolved.
• Assisting as the SME with health and safety questions that arise from internal audits and visits by external enforcement agencies in liaison with Central colleagues.
• Assisting the Hospital Director in ensuring that there are adequate induction health and safety training arrangements (including first day fire safety instruction) in place for staff employed at, or routinely working at the hospital, and other staff working at the location, including agency staff, consultants and staff employed by consultants.
• Provide an annual report and annual plan for the hospital, based on activities and issues based on the previous 12 months (to include internal and external audit reports, training undertaken and incident report, NCSIR and RIDDOR reports and learnings from these incidents) to the Hospital Director for approval.