Health, Safety & Security Manager

Are you an Operations Manager with a background in Health & Safety, Fire or Security?

Do you want to work somewhere with career progression opportunities?

We re looking for a great manager to join our expert team.

Our passion is providing Safe, Compassionate, Joined-Up patient care to over 650,000 people, delivering services from Acute, Sub-Acute and Community Hospitals and various community locations.

Team safety and security is paramount, therefore this role is critical.

You will have a key strategic role in developing and delivering service strategy, implementing and assuring best practice, managing systems and processes to improve safety, and provide advice to Senior Teams, Care Groups, partner organisations on compliance with safety and security management.

You will liaise with key partners to drive service growth, lead on key project works, support training and development programmes, and manage a team of expert staff.

Your portfolio will be wide ranging and exciting. While you may not come with expertise in all areas, you may offer a mix of expertise in some and working knowledge in others, we will support you to develop your knowledge and skills to a higher level.

The post holder will lead an expert team with responsibility for ensuring Health & Safety, Fire Safety and Security Services are provided in line with all applicable legislation, CQC Fundament Standards of Care, Health Technical Memoranda, NHS and applicable professional and industry standards.

Using your expert knowledge and experience, you and your team will work with, and provide advice to, Trust managers, colleagues and partners as well as leading on the development, delivery and coordination of training for colleagues.

You, and your team, will work closely with staff at all levels to ensure confidence in the Trust's Health & Safety, Fire Safety and Security provision. Partnerhsip working with Trust teams is essential as we cover a large geographical area with staff working in multiple buildings, across our own and service partner's buildings.

You, and your team, will be responsible for prompt and thorough investigation of Health & Safety, Security and Fire incidents (including those of violence and aggression against staff), for identifying and implementing learning and remedial actions and, where appropriate, supporting department line managers to implement learning.

The Health, Safety and Security Manager will:

• Advise relevant external partners, agencies and regulators on matters relating to health and safety, fire safety, security and VPR including: local police contacts, other care providers, PFI partners, estates contractors, service suppliers, the HSE and local authorities.

• Ensure the implementation of best practice throughout the Trust s Security, Fire and Health & Safety systems and processes.

• Be responsible for the day to day leaderhsip, management and strategic development of all services within their portfolio, balancing the need for proactive service development and strategic leadership against the reactive demand of operational responsibilities and stakeholders.

• Provide professional and managerial leadership to staff within the department and advise the Head of Assurance and Compliance and Senior Associate Director of Assurance and Compliance of technical and environmental issues in relation to areas of responsibility.

• Work independently guided by applicable legislation, regulations and organisational policies and specific local and national guidelines, advising how these should be interpreted and implemented.

• Assimilate and summarise complex, multi-stranded, sensitive and sometimes contentious information, comparing facts and analysin situational data from a range of sources, developing options and assessing risks and opportunities to the organisation and making recommendations to:

o facilitate decision making by directors and senior managers, and

o to assure statutory committees such as the Health and Safety Committee of the Trust s adherence to legislation or risks arising.

• Proactively manage the budgets for services (staff, contracts and software) within the remit of this post, ensuring that expenditure remains within agreed limits and strategies for resource utilisation.

• Be responsible for the prompt and thorough investigation of all security and health and safety incidents (including incidents of violence and aggression against staff), taking account of their severity, and for the identification and implementation of learning and remedial actions. In the case of VPR incidents, this will also include supporting line managers of the departments, and individual staff members, impacted by incidents through any next steps.

• Negotiate with suppliers of security and lone worker services, and with contractors and partner organisations to ensure value for money for services within their portfolio and robust assurance of compliance with health and safety legislation where necessary.

• Line manage the Health and Safety Team, including appraisal and development of team members and supporting their wellbeing.