Job summary
- Main area
- Health and Safety Manager
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 202-6497475
- Employer
- South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Flexible within Trust's geographical area
- Town
- Flexible within Trust's geographical area
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/08/2024
Employer heading
Health and Safety Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you an experienced health and safety leader looking for a new and exciting opportunity?
As the Health and Safety Manager at South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, you will be responsible for providing specialist professional advice whilst coordinating health and safety arrangements for the Trust, reporting directly to the Head of Health and Safety.
The post holder will provide the necessary leadership to support and embed health and safety matters within the Trust and will lead and deliver on agreed work plans through leadership and management of a team of subject matter experts. The post holder will ensure high quality delivery of this work, helping the Trust to achieve an environment that is safe and secure for staff and patients.
This role requires technical skill but also involves building great working relationships and positive health and safety cultures with managers and staff across our diverse organisation; working with them to resolve issues and advising and guiding them on how to work more efficiently.
The right candidate will have extensive experience at a management level working in the health and safety field and will be able to demonstrate excellent people management skills. Experience of effectively managing a team is essential.
The location of the role is flexible and the successful candidate can be based anywhere within the Trust's geographical area.
Main duties of the job
- To be a competent person for health and safety advice
- Develop and present complex reports on health and safety performance
- Develop, deliver and monitor health and safety objectives, leading multiple work streams simultaneously
- Develop health and safety policies and procedures
- Undertake thematic reviews and audits on the health and safety management system
- Provide leadership and management to a dynamic team of professionals
- Identify health and safety risks, ensure plans are implemented to manage them
Please refer to the attached job description for the main responsibilities of this role.
Working for our organisation
Working for us is an experience like no other. We provide emergency and urgent care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, operating across the largest ambulance region in England of 10,000 square miles and responding to an average of 2,650 incidents every day.
We remain committed to ensuring that we provide the best possible care for all our patients, which is reflected in our new five-year strategy which has continually improving patient care at its very core.
At the heart of our beautiful and diverse region we employ over 6000 people and are supported by over 575 volunteers.
If you embody our values of one team, compassionate and innovative and are looking to make a real difference to peoples’ lives, then we would love to hear from you.
In return we will equip you with the skills, resources and development you need to thrive in your role.
You will have opportunities to progress to roles at a higher pay grade and enjoy continuous professional development.
Benefits
- Competitive NHS salary
- A standard working week of 37.5 hours
- Holiday entitlements of 27 days per year, plus general and public holidays, rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift and overtime working
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Career and salary progression
- Car leasing scheme
- Free parking across Trust sites
- Cycle-to-work and other salary sacrifice schemes
- Staff networks
- Access to a wide range of discounts from various organisations across the UK
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for the main responsibilities of this role.
Please note the interviews for this role will take place on 16 August 2024.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
Essential criteria
- Educated to master's degree or equivalent, with relevant significant post qualification knowledge acquired through professional experience.
- Significant experience in a similar senior health and safety management role in a healthcare environment or equivalent complex organisation.
- Fire safety qualification.
- Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH).
- Training qualification.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Formal management and/or leadership qualification.
- Significant experience in the line management and leadership of a team and ability to lead a team effectively.
- Experience in writing and producing concise and accurate reports.
- Experience of management of budgets and service contracts.
- Experience in managing projects.
- Experience in completing complex risk assessments and accustomed to supporting effective risk management.
- Experience of developing, implementing and monitoring health and safety policies and procedures.
- Proven change management experience.
- Experience in dealing with challenging issues, taking a problem solving approach to support effective resolution.
- Experience of working with large incident reporting databases for audit, analysis of trends and complication of reports.
- Effective negotiating and influencing skills and ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professional and managerial disciplines.
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (MIFSM)
- Other recognised health and safety qualifications.
- NHS experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jodie Woolner
- Job title
- Head of Health and Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
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