Devon Partnership NHS Trust, a mental health and learning disability provider, has a Health and Safety Manager post in its Estates and Facilities team. The post leads health and safety across the trust's owned and leased buildings, advising managers and committees and overseeing inspections, audits and incident investigations. Travel across Devon and attendance at Exeter sites are part of the role, with home or remote working also offered. Corporate membership of IOSH or an equivalent body is essential.
What the job involves
- Lead and oversee health and safety arrangements across Estates and Facilities
- Provide expert advice on health and safety legislation, regulations and best practice
- Identify hazards and risks and recommend practical, proportionate solutions
- Undertake and coordinate inspections, audits, risk assessments and incident investigations
- Lead the development and review of health and safety policies, procedures and standards
- Develop and deliver health and safety and risk management training
- Monitor incidents, risks, actions and performance to identify trends and areas for improvement
- Prepare reports, assurance information, recommendations and business cases for senior managers and committees
- Work with trust teams, contractors, specialist advisers and regulators, travelling across sites to advise, inspect and investigate
- Challenge unsafe practices and advise on action where significant risks are identified
- Support compliance with statutory reporting and regulatory requirements
- Support staff, including with grievances and disciplinary issues
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
- Recognised occupational health and safety professional qualification, or equivalent specialist training and substantial experience
- Corporate membership of IOSH at an appropriate grade, or equivalent recognised health and safety professional body membership
Experience
- Significant experience of providing specialist health and safety advice in a complex organisation, including senior-level professional leadership
- Developing, implementing and reviewing health and safety policies, procedures, standards and training
- Applying health and safety legislation and recognised guidance to complex operational situations
- Complex risk assessments, inspections and incident investigations with proportionate recommendations
- Compiling and presenting complex performance, risk or assurance information clearly
- Statutory reporting and engagement with regulators or enforcing authorities
Skills & knowledge
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of health and safety legislation, codes, guidance and risk management principles, with training in systems-based incident investigation
- Knowledge of health and safety in complex Estates, Facilities or healthcare environments and of the NHS operating context
- Excellent verbal and written communication, including formal reports and explaining complex matters to varied audiences
- Ability to challenge unsafe practice constructively and recommend proportionate corrective action
Other
- Ability to work autonomously, prioritise competing demands and build working relationships within multidisciplinary, cross-organisational teams
- Sound professional judgement, resilience and an assertive approach, with commitment to continuing professional development
- Ability to travel regularly between trust sites
Nice to have
- Detailed knowledge of NHS risk-management and assurance arrangements
- Knowledge of how committees operate within NHS or public-sector bodies
- Knowledge of Estates and Facilities risks such as contractor management, construction, maintenance, hazardous substances, waste and work equipment
- Teaching or training qualification, such as the Level 3 Award in Education and Training
- Recognised risk management qualification
- Quality-improvement methodology qualification or formal training
- Additional specialist health and safety qualification in Estates, Facilities, construction or healthcare
- Experience of health and safety management within the NHS or a comparable public body
What’s offered
- Flexible working applications considered and supported, where possible
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