Job overview

To deliver a comprehensive, professional risk-based health & safety and EPRR service to the Trust, promoting a positive Health and Safety culture and ensuring all activities are undertaken with the highest regard to the safety of patients, staff, visitors and contractors.

·  To provide professional H&S leadership and takes responsibility for ensuring a robust Health and Safety Framework is implemented within the Trust. This includes the formation and implementation of Trust health & safety strategy in-line with legislation and Trust Policies.

·       Line management of the Health & Safety Team (inclusive of EPRR).

·     To undertake the role of Emergency Planning Lead Officer for the Trust, developing a strategic EPRR and Business Continuity Risk Matrix, and ensuring all risks and threats to the Trust are carefully managed, in accordance with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and National EPRR guidelines. The post holder is responsible for provision of advice and guidance in major and critical incidents affecting the provision of services within the Trust.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead Health and Safety and Emergency Planning within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.  

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced and committed individual to lead the ongoing implementation of our 5-year H&S strategy, working closely with service directorates to ensure the health and safety framework and a positive health and safety culture is embedded throughout our diverse high performing organisation.

You will lead a small team of health and safety and emergency planning experts advising and supporting managers and staff to ensure the highest standards of safety on a day-to-day basis across a diverse service portfolio with over 60 buildings ranging from in-patient mental health buildings to GP practices and including Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup and a number of prison-based services.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care