Job summary
- Main area
- Health and Safety
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 287-CEF-224-25
- Employer
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Aintree
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Health and Safety Manager
Band 7
Job overview
Reporting to the Senior Health and Safety Manager . This highly proactive role will include responsibility for Health and Safety Management across the Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Across the Trust your principle role will be to implement and manage ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System whilst providing assurance via a regime of continual auditing, monitoring and review, that the Trust has discharged their statutory obligations across all their operational activity.
You will develop, implement, manage and monitor policies and procedures relating to Occupational Health and Safety, to ensure that all statutory obligations are met. And that key risks are actively managed to minimise their impact, or likelihood of occurrence, via the implementation of appropriate mitigation plans, business continuity planning and emergency preparedness, response and recovery.
You will promote at all times a strong ‘Safety Culture’, and will ensure that delegated health, safety, related projects are delivered to the agreed programme, budget and quality, working to recognised Project Management standards.
Main duties of the job
The role holder will be responsibility for:
Attending and actively contributing towards the work of relevant groups, boards, committees and meetings across the Trust consistent with the scope of the position
Attending and participating in the Trust Health and Safety Group as appropriate
Competent professional advice
Development implementation and maintenance of risk driven audit
Working with Trust legal team to analyse and investigate claims as appropriate
Ensuring health and safety codes of practice, policies, procedure and standards are in place and updated accordingly on a regular basis. Identifying and developing training with support of the Health and Safety Training Manager to ensure relevant developmental events and training exercises are delivered
Monitoring and evaluation, via a programme of audits the H&S performance
Supporting with the development of leading and lagging indicators and monitor performance against these, for continual improvement and management related risks
Supporting with the implementation and operational maintenance of ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard
Preparing and providing reports to relevant groups, committees and boards
Oversight and maintenance of the health and safety internet site
Management and coordination of a programme of health and safety tours and inspection
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role holder will be responsibility for:
1. Actively working with the Trade Unions and their nominated Safety Representatives ensuring effective two-way communication and consultation, and involvement in joint H&S inspections and audits were appropriate
2. Assurance reporting
3. Attending and actively contributing towards the work of relevant groups, boards, committees and meetings across the Trust consistent with the scope of the position
4. Attending and participating in the Trust Health and Safety Group as appropriate
5. Collaborating with external organisations, Contractors and Consultants as appropriate
6. Competent professional advice across core areas of health, safety risk and assurance retaining an up to date knowledge of statutory and mandatory legislation, national guidance documents and policy
7. Coordinating freedom of information requests as appropriate
8. Development implementation and maintenance of risk driven audit programme with clear SMART focussed action plans, undertaking investigations and the provision of reports to give assurance to the Trust
9. Working with Trust legal team to analyse and investigate claims as appropriate
10. Ensuring health and safety codes of practice, policies, procedure and standards are in place and updated accordingly on a regular basis
11. Day to day management of the divisional/corporate Health and Safety support team
12. Identifying and developing training with support of the Health and Safety Training Manager to ensure relevant developmental events and training exercises are delivered
13. Liaising with outside agencies as required on Health and Safety
14. Monitoring and evaluation, via a programme of audits the H&S performance of Divisions and Corporate Services, including their directly employed Contractors and Consultants, against an effective health and safety management system to ensure adequate health and safety resources, that control measures are being fully implemented and remain effective, and all works or services provided are carried out in accordance with the relevant statutory requirements, Codes of Practice, and Trust policies and procedures
15. Providing Health and Safety advice primarily to Divisional and Corporate staff, but where necessary to the wider Trust, to assist with the resolution of health and safety related issues and assists with the implementation of agreed action plans, and develops Health and Safety information resources via a Trust Health and Safety web site
16. Providing operational support to Divisional and Corporate staff in relation to the completion of risk assessments, and the effective implementation of the necessary control measures, and use delegated Directorate authority to take prompt action with respect to unsafe conditions or equipment, including prohibition of activity or use where appropriate
17. Supporting all Divisional and Corporate managers in their efforts to embed a safety culture
18. Taking the lead in the development, promotion and maintenance of a healthy and safe working environment for patients, providing leadership and support to divisional and Corporate staff in relation to Health and Safety governance, risk management and compliance with Health and safety legislation, ensuring the consistent implementation of Trust policies and standards for Health and Safety
19. Implementation of a health and safety plan
20. Supporting with the development and maintenance of a programme of internal and external health, safety, training
21. Supporting with the development of leading and lagging indicators and monitor performance against these, for continual improvement and management related risks
22. Supporting with the implementation and operational maintenance of ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard
23. Preparing and providing reports to relevant groups, committees and boards
24. Providing advice and guidance on health, safety and risk to Divisional and Corporate Directors, Heads of Department and relevant staff as appropriate
25. Working with procurement to influence standards through the procurement process
26. Oversight and maintenance of the health and safety internet site
27. Management and coordination of a programme of health and safety tours and inspection across the divisional and Corporate management team
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in Health, Health and Safety or Risk Management
- Post-graduate qualification or equivalent
- NEBOSH National Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management
- Evidence of commitment to continued professional development, ideally through a recognised professional body
- Holds chartered membership of a professional health and safety body i.e. Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH) or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NEBOSH Fire and Risk Management
- NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management
- NEBSOH Construction Certificate
- Holds a recognised qualification in auditing i.e. ISO 45001 Internal Auditor Training Course or equivalent
- Recognised management qualification or demonstrable experience
- Educated to degree level in Health, Health and Safety or Risk Management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of successfully managing complex Health and Safety (H&S) issues in a unionised environment, including the development and management of H&S system
- Highly experienced in the provision of written and oral communication at all level of the organisation
- Experience of analysing data and coherently report information senior colleagues
- Experience promoting a positive health and safety culture, and implementing improvements
- A proven track record of successfully managing a robust auditing and monitoring regime
- Able to provide high quality professional advice on H&S related matters and support to senior line managers to embed a ‘safety culture’ into their daily activities
- Experience of commissioning and analysing data to suggest and implement positive changes to safety and regulatory compliance
- Experience of implementing and managing ISO 45001
- Experience promoting a positive Health & Safety, regulatory and compliance culture and implementing improvements in related practices
- Experience of commissioning and delivering auditing of safety and regulatory systems and processes
- Experience of health and safety policy development, implementation and monitoring
Desirable criteria
- Experience of effective budgetary management
- Experience of working with outside agencies
- Experience of working in the Healthcare Sector
- Understanding of governance
- Experience of chairing meetings
- Experience of the development and maintenance of an risk register
- Experience of applying risk management techniques
- Experience in project management and budget preparation and able to develop and implement training programmes for managers and other staff
- Experience of health and safety planning
- Experience of managing staff
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In depth knowledge of health & safety legislation and application
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative and to make decisions within the framework of established policies, procedures and standards
- Computer literate: MS office, particularly word, Excel
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and proven ability to influence and persuade senior colleagues of the importance of fire safety
- Ability to write and implement health and safety policy and procedure
- Ability to plan and deliver effective health and safety audit programme
- Ability to analyse information and data relating to complex situations and to communicate findings clearly and precisely
- Good document and report-writing
Other
Essential criteria
- Committed to the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical risk management
- Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, and to work with minimal supervision to achieve agreed objectives & deadlines
- Dependability, reliability, punctuality and consistent ability to produce a high quality/quantity of work
- Ability to prioritise/organise personal workloads, meet deadlines and reach decisions quickly and accurately
- Ability to communicate at all levels and provide a clear understanding of the importance of Health & Safety
- Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate skills
- Able to build effective working relationships with a wide range of people both internally and externally i.e. with enforcement agency inspectors
- Able to deal calmly and effectively with emergencies and potentially difficult situations, in some instances, without additional assistance
- Adopts a proactive approach to the management of health and safety, and is responsive to colleague’s health and safety queries, and requests for assistance, dealing with them in a helpful, informative and timely manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Judge
- Job title
- Snr Health and Safety Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 529 0835
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