Health, Safety & Environmental Advisor- Trainer (Grade D) - Health & Safety - Derbyshire Suppor[...]

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Health, Safety & Environmental Advisor- Trainer

Grade D

Main area Health & Safety Grade D Contract Permanent: full-time 37.5 Hours Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday) Job ref 166-DSFS-6877702-A

Site DSFS Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust Town CHESTERFIELD Salary £28,996 - £31,756 pro rata Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/03/2025 10:00

Job overview

This role is key to the delivery and promotion of Health & Safety for both DSFS and the wider Chesterfield Royal Hospitals NHS Trust. The individual will be responsible for delivering Health, Safety and Fire training to all staff groups. They will also support Health & Safety audits, investigate Health & Safety related incidents, and support management in their investigations.

They will also support the Head of Health & Safety in providing expert advice on Health, Safety and Welfare.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship; any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide expert advice to the Head of Health and Safety on Health, Safety and Environmental management and compliance.
2. Deliver Health & Safety and Fire training to all staff groups.
3. Manage training schedules and proactively liaise with stakeholders in line management to ensure candidates are made available and maintain up-to-date training records.
4. Provide expert Health and Safety guidance to all “Trust/DSFS“ working groups and committees as required.
5. Process manage and undertake the completion of Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Assessments and undertake audits to ensure adherence to the relevant legislative guidelines.
6. Understand changes to regulatory guidance, design new learning provisions, and undertake regular training updates and seminars to ensure that up-to-date knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental guidance and regulation is maintained.
7. Actively participate and promote the control of contractors on site to include site induction and auditing to ensure quality of service/works being provided including sign-off of completed works.

Working for our organisation

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS is proud to strive to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Possession of a recognised Health & Safety Qualification (IOSH, NEBOSH or equivalent Safety Management Qualification to Diploma level 3 or equivalent).
• Teaching Qualification.
• Degree level qualification in a related field.
• Qualification in Supervisory Management.

Experience

• 5 years operational experience of practical implementation of safety processes and training.
• Undertaking of risk assessments in a complex environment.
• Experience of implementation of strategies, policies and procedures.
• Experience in staff engagement and management of contractors.
• Hospital/NHS work environment experience.
• Experience in managing budgets.

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to produce risk-based reports with financial investment recommendations.
• Practical training and presentation skills.
• Experience of General Health and Safety Management and specialist implementation of that guidance.
• Ability to understand and manage complex situations that require a degree of interpretation and prioritise the resulting actions to effectively manage the issues raised.
• Proven track record of being able to communicate effectively on complex subjects at the highest levels.
• Operational experience of practical fire safety management and provision of practical realistic fire training.
• Ability to manage and motivate colleagues.
• Apply specialist knowledge of the fire safety legislation and guidance including experience of practical implementation of those guidelines within a complex healthcare environment.
• Demonstrate ability to negotiate with stakeholders with regard to change leadership subject matters be that process or personnel.
• Experience and knowledge of financial management of budgets.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Ability to project a professional image.
• Ability to interpret data and formulate strategic plans based on data findings and audit reports.
• Use of Microsoft Office programmes to produce graphical representation of data and production of Multimedia presentation formats.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship; any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.

References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up-to-date email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / crhft.dsfshumanresources@nhs.net and we will be happy to provide assistance.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.