Health and Safety Officer

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen at South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust for a Health and Safety Officer. This is a hybrid site/home-working permanent role covering the northern counties within the Trust's geographical footprint. As such, the post holder can be based anywhere within these areas (Somerset, Wiltshire, BNSSG, Gloucestershire), but have the ability and willingness to travel as required.

The role is responsible for providing competent health and safety advice as well as delivering and monitoring health and safety arrangements. The role supports the Trust in ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation in order for the Trust to maintain the highest standards of health, safety and welfare for staff and patients. The post holder will report to the Deputy Health and Safety Manager (North).

You will be a qualified health and safety professional with post-qualification experience, excellent interpersonal skills, displaying diplomacy and tact through proactive engagement activity in order to build trust and increase safety culture to support the Trust's objectives for health and safety.

The successful candidate will be self-motivated, able to work autonomously and as part of a wider team of health and safety professionals. They'll be supported by an innovative and collaborative team who have a passion for promoting and improving health and safety management.

Main duties of the job

• Provide competent health and safety advice for a wide range of health and safety subjects.
• Regularly produce and effectively communicate reports involving health and safety data.
• Regularly monitor accident/incident reports, proactively providing advice and guidance to managers in the investigation of RIDDOR incidents.
• Develop and provide training to managers and staff in relation to health and safety.
• Facilitate and attend meetings with key stakeholders and present reports on health and safety performance.
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Assess the risks present in a specific work areas, workplaces or processes to identify unsafe working conditions and practices. Make judgements to inform recommendations to remedy any defects found and ensure any recommendations made are acted upon.
• Develop, implement, and report on a programme of health and safety inspections and audits.
• Proactively ensure health and safety actions arising from health and safety activities are monitored and updated accordingly.
• Facilitate and assist with the completion of risk assessments for all aspects of Trust work. These will include generic risk assessments, site specific risk assessments, DSE assessments, COSHH assessments, fire risk assessments (list not exhaustive).

About us

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

Employer details

Employer name

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Flexible - Gloucester, Wiltshire, Somerset or BNSSG

Flexible - Gloucester, Wiltshire, Somerset or BNSSG

BS32 4QJ

Employer's website

https://www.swast.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Flexible - Gloucester, Wiltshire, Somerset or BNSSG

Flexible - Gloucester, Wiltshire, Somerset or BNSSG

BS32 4QJ

Employer's website

https://www.swast.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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