Risk/health & safety adviser

Job description

Job responsibilities

The main duties of the post-holder, and the requirements for the role, can be found in the attached job description and person specification. A summary of the role requirements is as below:

Work closely with the head of risk & safety, and quality partners, in all areas of risk management and with the heads of quality & safety/clinical governance and quality and compliance manager, as appropriate. To work closely with all areas to ensure the trusts compliance with high standards of health and safety by supporting managers to identify hazards, carrying out inspections, training staff and ensuring a high standard of accident, incident and near miss reporting, investigation, and learning. Provide specialist advice and guidance in respect to the delivery of health and safety arrangements, systems, and procedures, ensuring that teams have adequate written documentation to support the implementation and maintenance of safe working processes. Work in close collaboration with clinical divisions and corporate teams to promote good practice in risk management and risk reduction, providing support, facilitation, and guidance for risk management activities across the organisation. Assist in the management and monitoring of the trusts risks and risk registers and, working closely with divisions, corporate teams, company secretary, senior managers, line managers, technical specialists, staff, and contractors, ensure that the risk profile is reflective of operational and organisational risks. To collate, analyse and produce high quality risk, compliance, and assurance reports on a regular basis to various groups and committees. Have excellent communication skills, across all grades and disciplines within the trust, to be able to challenge, advise, persuade, negotiate, and influence in relation to risk management issues. Represent the department at appropriate forums (at any site), cascading information both up and down the organisation. Share relevant information with the quality & safety team. In conjunction with the director of quality and safety and the quality and safety team, manage and set budgets under the post holders own responsibility, ensuring effective and value for money expenditure within financial controls and limits. As a member of the quality and safety team there is a requirement to understand the demands within the role in relation to unpredictable work patterns, conflicting demands and expectations and high levels of mental effort and concentration required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree or equivalent experience
• Degree/Diploma (NEBOSH/IOSH) level health and safety qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of on-going CPD

Desirable

• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., IOSH)

Experience

Essential

• Significant health and safety experience
• Strong understanding of the application of H&S legislative requirements
• Handling confidential and sensitive information relating to both patients and staff/general IG requirements
• Computer literate/good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint
• Previous experience of the collection and analysis of incident data to identify themes and trends.
• Experience undertaking audits, thematic reviews, surveys, and analysis of complex data
• Experience in delivering training to diverse staff groups
• Significant risk management experience
• Experience in the production of high quality risk, compliance and assurance reports

Desirable

• Use of an electronic risk & incident reporting system, at an administrator level
• Experience of working within the NHS
• Experience of undertaking incident investigations using ergonomic principles
• Project management experience
• Fit testing experience
• Quality improvement experience
• Experience of working within a complex multi-site organisation
• Experience of the collation, handling and presentation of confidential staff data and working with an occupational health provider

Skills

Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills - the communication of complex issues effectively to a wide range of audiences, via a variety of methods
• Ability to analyse complex situations and problem solve. Be proactive and keen to find practical solutions to issues and demonstrate problem-solving skills
• Organising/prioritising
• Motivating
• Communicating (written and verbal)
• Use of initiative, example of autonomous and team work, persuasion, resilience, information handling (1 point for each)
• Spelling, accuracy, attention to detail

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

City Road (Kemp House)

City Road

London

EC1V 2PD

Employer's website

https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/work-for-us (Opens in a new tab)