Health and Safety Manager

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Senior Health and Safety Manager.
• Managing Health and Safety across the Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
• Implementing and managing ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
• Providing assurance through continual auditing, monitoring and review of statutory obligations.
• Developing, implementing, managing and monitoring policies and procedures relating to Occupational Health and Safety.
• Managing key risks to minimise impact and likelihood via mitigation plans, business continuity, emergency preparedness, response and recovery.
• Promoting a strong safety culture throughout the Trust.
• Delivering delegated health, safety related projects to agreed programme, budget and quality, working to recognised Project Management standards.
• Attending and actively contributing to relevant groups, boards, committees and meetings across the Trust.
• Providing competent professional advice.
• Developing and maintaining a risk‑driven audit programme.
• Working with the Trust legal team to analyse and investigate claims.
• Ensuring health and safety codes of practice, policies, procedures and standards are in place and updated regularly.
• Identifying and developing training with support of the Health and Safety Training Manager.
• Monitoring and evaluating performance via a programme of audits.
• Supporting development of leading and lagging indicators and monitoring performance against them.
• Implementing and operationally maintaining ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard.
• Preparing and providing reports to relevant groups, committees and boards.
• Overseeing and maintaining the health and safety internet site.
• Coordinating a programme of health and safety tours and inspections.
• Actively working with Trade Unions and their nominated Safety Representatives.
• Assurance reporting.
• Coordinating freedom of information requests.
• Coordinating development of risk‑driven audit programme with SMART action plans.
• Day‑to‑day managing the divisional/corporate Health and Safety support team.
• Liaising with outside agencies on Health and Safety.
• Providing operational support to Divisional and Corporate staff in completing risk assessments and implementing control measures.
• Providing Health and Safety advice primarily to Divisional and Corporate staff, and to the wider Trust when necessary.
• Developing Health and Safety information resources via the Trust health and safety web site.
• Supporting all Divisional and Corporate managers to embed a safety culture.
• Leading development, promotion and maintenance of a healthy and safe working environment for patients.
• Providing advice and guidance on health, safety and risk to Divisional and Corporate Directors, Heads of Department and relevant staff.
• Working with procurement to influence standards through the procurement process.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in Health, Health and Safety or Risk Management.
• Post‑graduate qualification or equivalent.
• NEBOSH National Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management.
• Evidence of commitment to continued professional development, ideally through a recognised professional body.
• Holds chartered membership of a professional health and safety body (e.g. IOSH or equivalent).
• NEBOSH Fire and Risk Management (Desirable).
• NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management (Desirable).
• NEBSOH Construction Certificate (Desirable).
• Recognised qualification in auditing (e.g. ISO 45001 Internal Auditor Training Course or equivalent).
• Recognised management qualification or demonstrable experience.
• Demonstrable experience of successfully managing complex Health and Safety issues in a unionised environment, including development and management of an H&S system.
• Highly experienced in the provision of written and oral communication at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience of analysing data and coherently reporting information to senior colleagues.
• Experience promoting a positive health and safety culture, and implementing improvements.
• A proven track record of successfully managing a robust auditing and monitoring regime.
• Able to provide high‑quality professional advice on H&S matters and support senior line managers to embed a “safety culture” into daily activities.
• Experience of commissioning and analysing data to suggest and implement positive changes to safety and regulatory compliance.
• Experience of implementing and managing ISO 45001.
• Experience promoting a positive Health & Safety, regulatory and compliance culture and implementing improvements in related practices.
• Experience of commissioning and delivering auditing of safety and regulatory systems and processes.
• Experience of health and safety policy development, implementation and monitoring.
• Experience of effective budgetary management (Desirable).
• Experience of working with outside agencies (Desirable).
• Experience of working in the Healthcare Sector (Desirable).
• Understanding of governance (Desirable).
• Experience of chairing meetings (Desirable).
• Experience of the development and maintenance of a risk register (Desirable).
• Experience of applying risk management techniques (Desirable).
• Experience in project management and budget preparation; ability to develop and implement training programmes for managers and other staff (Desirable).
• Experience of health and safety planning (Desirable).
• Experience of managing staff.
• In‑depth knowledge of health & safety legislation and application.
• Ability to work on own initiative and to make decisions within the framework of established policies, procedures and standards.
• Computer literate: MS Office, particularly Word and Excel.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and proven ability to influence and persuade senior colleagues of the importance of fire safety.
• Ability to write and implement health and safety policy and procedure.
• Ability to plan and deliver an effective health and safety audit programme.
• Ability to analyse information and data relating to complex situations and to communicate findings clearly and precisely.
• Good document and report‑writing, committed to the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical risk management.
• Self‑motivated, able to work under pressure, and to work with minimal supervision to achieve agreed objectives and deadlines.
• Dependability, reliability, punctuality and consistent ability to produce a high‑quality/quantity of work.
• Ability to prioritise/organise personal workloads, meet deadlines and reach decisions quickly and accurately.
• Ability to communicate at all levels and provide a clear understanding of the importance of Health & Safety.
• Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate skills.
• Able to build effective working relationships with a wide range of people internally and externally (e.g. with enforcement agency inspectors).
• Able to deal calmly and effectively with emergencies and potentially difficult situations, sometimes without additional assistance.
• Adopts a proactive approach to the management of health and safety, and is responsive to colleague queries and requests for assistance, dealing with them in a helpful, informative and timely manner.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.

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