Job Description
Job summary This is a highly varied role with the scope to make a considerable impact on the wellbeing of our staff. Working with all levels of the organisation, you will deliver evidence-led health, safety and wellbeing (HS&W) advice. Helping staff to understand how they can balance their patient safety and service delivery priorities with legal compliance and their own HS&W, you will become a trusted partner to their work. Identifying gaps in knowledge, you will deliver training courses to up to 15 people, and you will be a trusted expert when sharing your findings via reports. Determining how legislation will affect policy, you will also take specialist responsibilities for risk, assurance or improvement. So regardless of whether you are communicating one-on-one with staff regarding work-related stress, working with colleagues to inspect the scene of a workplace accident, or collaborating with the Trade Unions to enable constructive conversations, you will deliver practical solutions to complex challenges. Main duties of the job In this role you will be required to provide a professional Health, Safety and Wellbeing service to managers and staff. Your responsibilities will include :-Planning with directorates, facilitating consultation, providing accurate and timely adviceAssessing training needs and delivering trainingEncouraging effective working between Occupational Health, Human Resources and Managers Engaging and influencing senior managers, HS&W performance reportingWorking with Directorates on HS&W improvement initiatives over a large geographical area supported by HS&W Advisors.Providing additional support for specialist areas as required by Head of Health and Safety Policy and Planning. The specialist areas are: Risk, Assurance and Improvement.-Risk - profiling NHSBT HS&W risk to include Residual Risk reduction, producing national model risk assessments, and trending-Assurance - measuring performance, investigating accidents and incidents, to include maintenance of the H&S management system including policy, standards and the HS&W audit programme-Improvement - reviewing performance, learning lessons, to include responsibility for day to day management of litigation, Root cause analysis, Trending and corrective and preventative actionYou will be required to travel and spend time away from base, when required, with prior notice About us It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Job description Job responsibilities What we offer: NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities where the role will allow. 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years. NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns) Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: We’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role. Person Specification Qualifications Essential Post graduate qualification to masters level (this could include a NEBOSH Diploma) in occupational health and safety or equivalent relevant qualification OR equivalent experience. Possession of Chartered Safety Practitioner with the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health or working towards Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD) Experience Essential Experience as a Health and Safety Advisor providing advice, training, auditing, policy formation, facilitating consultation and planning Experience of working for a multi-site organisation Experience of accident investigation, inspections and audit Experience of working closely with occupational health to find practical and effective workplace solutions Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)