Helipad Operational Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

Service Delivery and Improvement

• Supervise the helipad response team ensuring the helipad response team is fully trained and physically competent at all times in accordance with CAA CAP699 to ensure there is a correct level of cover for all incoming and departing flights.

• Maintain a log of all flight movements and ensuring a safe transit of patient from helicopter onto and from deck to Emergency Department or other location.

• Be fully conversant with CAA regulations appertaining to operation of elevated helipads, develop and update operating manuals as required in the light of changing guidance and regulations.

• Declare the Helipad operational each day having assessed the risks and in accordance with the Helipad Operations manual. This will also include liaising with outside authorities as required to notify if the deck is unserviceable at any time.

• Ensure health and safety awareness is understood and adhered to by all staff directly involved with the Helipad when on standby duty, ensuring that the aircraft is not approached until safe to do so and Helipad access is restricted to unauthorised personnel

• Ensure visual checks of the Helipad landing area, stairs, ramps, windsocks, lighting, etc. are undertaken on daily basis and prior to each aircraft arrival and departure to ensure all are fully operational and safe for use.

• Ensure daily checks of all roof areas and adjoining areas under and adjacent to helipad to ensure there are no roosting/ nesting of pigeons and seagulls and inspect installed pigeon netting daily and report immediately any defects.

• Remove any foreign objects from the Helipad and dispose of them in accordance with the Brighton Sussex University Hospital Waste Policy ensuring the Helipad is safe for use. Report and record any identified faults or defects immediately and ensure remedial repairs are actioned.

• Oversee contractors working on the Helipad at all times to ensure their safety and that of the Helipad Team and any aircraft movements.

• Ensure the Helipad remains staffed at all times an aircraft is on the helipad.

• Ensure the crew accommodation is, maintained in a clean and tidy state and any defects reported.

• Ensure the helipad is, secured to all non-authorised persons at all times and instil a full understanding of the need for this security with the helipad response team.

• Be able to operate and interpret weather forecasting station data and relay, this, information as required.

• Will have final say and decision making on landings on a Go/No GO basis

• Check all safety systems are functioning as well as bird scaring and laser

• Carry out any other reasonable duties commensurate with the role and delegated or requested by the Estates Manager, as the needs of the service require.

• The job description and person specification may, be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

• Annual audits should be scheduled to evaluate compliance with the local Helipad Operations Manual

See Job Description and Personal Specification for more details

Person Specification

Experience / Qualifications

Essential

• Experience to Degree Level or a Level 3 Vocational Qualification or equivalent
• Experience and Knowledge of a range of Trade Procedures acquired through an accredited Training Course on required equipment
• Facilities Management or equivalent specialist knowledge / managerial qualification
• Evidence of continued Professional Development

Desirable

• Worked in an NHS environment understanding of relevant issues

Skills

Essential

• Good Analytical Skills including the use of Statistics
• Able to act independently on own initiative and judgement to make decisions
• Proven Leadership and People Management Skills

Desirable

• Evidence of Helipad or Aviation Facility Operations, with specific exposue to Fire Risk Management
• Experience delivering Fire Safety Training or conducting Emergency drills in high risk environments

Specific Requirements

Essential

• Experience of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• Information Resources / IT
• Demonstrate Behaviours and Attitudes that supports the Trust's Version
• PersonaL Qualities and Attributes e.g Team Leader, Articulate self starter, Ability to work autonomously

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having undertake own Development to improve understanding of equalities issues.
• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).

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

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Royal Sussex County Hospital

Eastern Road

Brighton

BN2 5BE

Employer's website

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