Health and Safety Manager

• To act as deputy for the Senior Health & Safety Manager;
• Be responsible for providing health and safety management support to all operational sectors across the Trust and fulfil the role of a competent person in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.)
• Provide professional advice, training and leadership to staff and Managers at sector and site level.
• Support the maintenance of the Trust’s compliance with regulatory and statutory duties.
• Facilitate the development and implementation of robust health and safety strategies, delivery plans and systems within the Trust.
• To lead Datix incident reporting and analysis;
• The focus for this role will be to support the health, safety and security function, as part of the Health & Safety team by leading and promoting a positive health and safety culture in order to engender and embed proactive and robust health and safety systems across the organisation, ensuring that the organisation meets its regulatory and statutory duties relating to health, safety and welfare
• Manage the Health & Safety Advisors (x3), develop PDR objectives, manage day to day work and ensure 1-2-1 meetings take place
• To develop, implement, monitor and review policies, procedures, guidance and initiatives, facilitating collaborative working, to raise awareness and foster a culture that encourages reporting, action and learning from violent and aggressive incidents;
  
  

Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:

• Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
• Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
• Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
  
  

To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kerry Fowler Job title: Senior Health & Safety Manager Email address: kerry.fowler4@nhs.net