Health & Safety Manager at Cambridge CB2 0QQ Full Time

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Job Description

Job title: CEFM Health & Safety Manager

Hours of work:37.5

Location:Capital Estates and Facilities Management

To whom responsible:Head of Estates Safety, Compliance & Resilience

The successful candidate will support the Head of Estates

Job summary:

Safety, Compliance & Resilience to ensure the Capital

Estates and Facilities Management Division conducts its activities in a safe manner, so far as is reasonably

practicable, to meet its obligations under health and safety legislation and other regulatory requirements.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

The CEFM Health & Safety Manager will:

1. Act as a “competent advisor” regarding health and safety and provide managers and staff across CEFM with health and safety advice on a range of work procedures, practices and complex situations.

2. Develop and undertake a risk assessment programme. Provide expert advice and support managers and staff in undertaking risk assessments in relation to health and safety issues.

3. Develop CEFM-related health and safety policies, procedures and guidance so that they reflect legislative requirements and best practice to enable CEFM to operate safely and remain compliant against Trust wide policies, procedures and guidance. Ensure new or amended policies, procedures and guidance are communicated and implemented.

4. Develop and undertake a rolling programme of CEFM wide health and safety audits/inspections initiated from; Incidents, Investigations, CAS/Patient Safety Alerts and Risk entries.

5. Analyse findings, identify gaps in health and safety compliance and make recommendations to improve the health and safety of staff, patients and contractors.

Monitor audit action plans until achieved. Escalate any issues as appropriate.

6. Present complex, sensitive or contentious health and safety information as and when required.

7. Deliver face-to-face training on a range of specialist health and safety topics, the

Trust’s incident management system (Datix knows as QSiS) and Risk Management

Training. Produce e-learning modules to support the development of staff health and safety knowledge and awareness. Develop and make available a range of learning materials to support training sessions.

8. Work closely with CEFM Risk Leads to monitor the CEFM divisional risk register to ensure all risks are logged and appropriate actions are assigned in order to reduce risks to as low as reasonably practicable.

9. Support the Head of Estates Safety, Compliance & Resilience in the planning and implementation of projects aimed at improving the health and safety of staff, patients and contractors. Deliver programmes at a local level within Divisions, as required.

10. Analyse and interpret health and safety data, identify common themes and trends and make recommendations for improvement. Ensure data is available for local subgroups and corporate meetings such as CEFM Board, CEFM Health & Safety Group and Trust

Health & Safety Committee

11. Maintain data on CEFM health and safety key performance indicators. Ensure that the information is provided in a clear format.

12. Prepare and present regular reports for CEFM Groups and Governance Meetings.

13. Attend and contribute to meetings of relevant groups within CEFM to provide health and safety expertise.

14. Closely and regularly monitor incident reporting and risk registers via QSiS and liaise with managers as required to ensure corrective and preventative actions are taken to meet health and safety needs and practices of the CEFM division

15. Manage and investigate health and safety incidents including CEFM RIDDOR incidents.

Identify failures, participate in Root Cause Analysis and lessons learnt and make recommendations for improvement to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.

16. Liaise with the corporate H&S Team to ensure that CEFM RIDDOR incidents are reported in accordance with HSE timescales (the H&S team will undertake reporting of all incidents to the HSE)

17. Maintain strong relationships and links with Trust’s corporate Health and Safety Team,

Divisional Quality Managers (DQMs), CEFM Senior Managers, QSiS Team, Corporate

Risk Team

18. Carry out workplace inspections when required and provide advice on health and safety matters where, perhaps, there is no obvious solution. Provide written reports of findings.

19. Ensure all Central Alerting System (CAS) notifications associated to CEFM are managed in line with the requirements of the Trusts CAS Team via QSIS

20. Manage, investigate and ensure provision of all relevant information is made available to the Trust’s Legal Team in the result of a claim

21. Use specialist equipment, including sound level meter, to assess exposure to workplace hazards and determine the risk of harm to staff, patients and contractors and make appropriate recommendations.

22. Keep up to date with forthcoming changes in health and safety legislation and advise managers and staff of any changes.

23. Line Management of Health & Safety Trainee/Apprentices

24. Support and, where necessary, deputise for the Head of Estates Safety, Compliance &

Resilience.

25. Implement changes to systems, policies, practices and premises where required and ensure that any changes are communicated effectively.

Qualifications NEBOSH National Certificate or equivalent A Root Cause Analysis competency

A Educated to master’s degree level or A Project Management qualification A equivalent substantial experience in H&S

A Teacher training qualification A

Relevant post graduate qualification or equivalent or professional experience

Evidence of continuous professional development

Substantial relevant experience of working in a A & I Have experience of safety management systems A & I

2 Experience health and safety role at a large or complex organisation. Experience of working with Datix

A & I

Delivery of health and safety training A & I NHS experience

A

Have undertaken incident investigations, risk A & I Web page content and / or design assessments and workplace inspections A

Writing reports and providing advice on Health A, I & T

& Safety issues to staff and managers

Policy/guidance writing A & I

Knowledge of health and safety legislation and I An understanding of accident causation theories I

3 Knowledge risk management methodology

Knowledge of external reporting requirements I

4 Skills Good organisational, communication and A & I Project management skills A & I interpersonal skills.

Numerate and literate, with excellent computer A & I skills including competence with Microsoft

Office and database systems

Good investigative, analytical and report A & I writing skills

Training skills A & I

A high standard of written english, presenting A & I information in a clear and logical format i.e. policies, guidance documents

Ability to work on own initiative I

Able to prioritise own workload and work to I deadlines

A strong commitment to the improvement of I patient care and staff experience.

5 Additional The ability to understand and behave at all I

Requirements times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of

safe, kind, excellent.

The following hazards are associated

with this job role:

Continuous use of display screen equipment

(DSE) on most days

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