Job summary
- Main area
- Health and Safety
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-8065020-COR
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount McKinley, Shrewsbury Business Park
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Health and Safety Advisor
NHS AfC: Band 7
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and proactive Health and Safety Advisor to make a real impact across Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.
In this varied Band 7 role, you will lead on specialist health and safety matters, provide expert guidance across the organisation, and help create safer environments for patients, staff, visitors and volunteers. Working with colleagues at every level, you will drive compliance, support innovation, influence best practice and play a key role in improving safety, wellbeing and quality across our communities.
Main duties of the job
- Support the trust aims in achieving compliance with its statutory duties under Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
- To be the Trust’s competent person as required by legislation and provide expert advice and support to ensure compliance.
- To implement the variety of the Trust’s health and safety policies and provide expert guidance and training on all aspects of health and safety, and welfare matters to all Trust staff and volunteers.
- To lead on security related duties that are required under Health and Safety legislation and the NHS Violence Prevention and Reduction Standard.
- To undertake the mandatory role of Central Alerting System Liaison Officer. The role includes the management of the safety alert distribution, tracking and monitoring process, often with challenging deadlines. Compliance is monitored by the CQC and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
- To act as Chair of the Trust Health and Safety Working Group.
- To prepare, conduct and evaluate health and safety related risk audits and surveys across the Trust management of the risk profile. Where high risk situations are identified consult and work in conjunction with managers with a view to reducing areas of risk.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the role please see the attached document entitled 'Job Description and Person Specification'.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc in Health and Safety Management (or equivalent)
- Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent)
- Certified Membership of institute of Occupational Safety & Health (CertIOSH)
- Level 4 Violence Prevention and Reduction Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Provision of advice to managers/supervisors
- Handling of health and safety investigations
- Experience of formulating, implementing and revising health and safety policies and procedures
- Experience of working with the Health and Safety Executive and/or other external agencies
- Significant experience of investigation health and safety incidents
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills
- Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
- Able to create, deliver and evaluate effective training packages to meet Trust requirements and appropriate legislation
- Ability to work on own initiative and autonomously escalating as appropriate for guidance
- Specialist knowledge of health and safety
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to meet the travel needs of the post which will include travel across the Trust’s geographical area
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
- Shelley Ramtuhul
- Job title
- Director of Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743 277500
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