Clinical Safety Environment Officer

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us!

We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to cover for maternity leave in the Clinical Safety Environment Officer role who will work within the Health, Safety and Security Team on a fixed term basis for 1 year.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual with strong communication skills to provide clinical related safety advice and support the Trust in meeting its legal obligations with current legislation and regulations (including local policies and procedures).

The post holder will work as part of a team supporting the Health and Safety Advisers and Security Manager, and will report to the H&S Manager.

The Trust supports "Hybrid" working and will be flexible about working from home where possible and work bases will be provided in Norfolk or Suffolk. The role will involve a mixture of working from home and deploying to sites where physical presence or support is required.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for the provision of proactive specialist clinical safety support, guidance and training in order for the Trust to achieve high standard of patient and staff safety.
• The post holder is responsible for advising, training, monitoring and reporting progress on environmental clinical safety matters involving but not limited to, ligature points and clinical risk mitigations and best practice.
• The post holder will be expected to support with ligature walk rounds, assisting with ligature queries and producing reports, statistics and information both internally and externally. The post holder will also support in identifying consistent clinical mitigation for environmental health and safety and supporting the implementation through risk assessment.
• The post holder will be expected to liaise with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Care Quality Commission (CQC) and other such bodies to ensure the Trust meets its statutory obligations in the field of health, safety and welfare.
• Assisting with the management of the Safety and Security Team.
• Assisting and advising on clinical health, safety and welfare issues.
• Assisting with legislative duties, identifying pre and post incident risk assessments and ensuring robust ligature safety systems are in place and monitored.
• Acting as a first point of contact for ligature matters.
• Assisting in the production of reports and statistics, both in-house and for external bodies with regards to ligature and clinical environmental safety.

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Nursing degree
• Professional registration

Desirable criteria

• Health and Safety qualification (NEBOSH NGC or equivalent)
• PTLLS or equivalent education and training award.

Experience
Essential criteria

• Experience of working on an inpatient ward and completing ligature assessments
• Planning and implementing safety measures to reduce or eliminate risks in a clinical environment

Desirable criteria

• Experience in analysing and resolving complex health and safety matters

Knowledge
Essential criteria

• Ability to interpret complex H&S legislation and identify the implication for the Trust.

Other
Essential criteria

• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel independently

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.