Health and Safety Advisor

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Health and Safety Advisor

The closing date is 10 May 2026

NHS Band 5: Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum

Hours per Week: 37.5 full time

Contract: Permanent

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Health and Safety Advisor to join our Single Corporate Health and Safety Service, supporting both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Health and Safety professional who wants to develop their career within a large, complex acute NHS environment, working closely with managers and frontline teams to promote a strong, positive safety culture and ensure compliance with health and safety legislation.

Main duties of the job

As a Health and Safety Advisor, you will support the delivery of a comprehensive, proactive health and safety service across both Trusts.

Key responsibilities include:

• Promoting a positive health and safety culture across all services and staff groups
• Undertaking health and safety audits, inspections and workplace assessments
• Providing advice and guidance on risk assessments, safe systems of work and legislative compliance
• Supporting managers with accident and incident investigations, and trend analysis to drive learning and improvement
• Assisting with the delivery of health and safety training to a wide range of staff
• Supporting the development and review of health and safety policies, guidance and promotional campaigns
• Maintaining accurate records, reports and databases relating to health and safety activity
• Providing day-to-day supervision and support to junior health and safety staff where required

This is a varied, hands-on role offering excellent exposure to multiple clinical and non-clinical environments.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in-person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for the long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Job responsibilities

Job purpose

To ensure both Trusts meet their legal and regulatory obligations associated with health and safety management and to ensure that there are robust arrangements in place to continue to be well-led organisations.

Specific Core Functions

• Undertake audits and inspections that align with Trust policies and procedures.
• Produce basic reports that may contain sensitive or contentious Health and Safety information.
• Undertake noncomplex accident and incident investigation.
• Provide basic advice and guidance to all levels of Trust staff on all aspects of Health and Safety management, safe systems of work and risk assessments.
• Support with Health and Safety evaluations and assessments of working environments for individuals and teams.
• Undertake basic analytical and statistical review of accident and incident trends, formulating recommendations and reports as necessary within the scope of the role.
• Support the development and review of Health and safety policies and guidance that will enable the Trusts to maintain compliance with relevant statutory compliance.
• Maintain accurate records, spreadsheets, and databases for a wide scope of Health and Safety activities.
• Support with audit programme for the service providing advice and guidance to peer professionals on the formulation and completion of routine audits.
• Provide line management, support, supervision, to junior and less experienced staff within the team delegating tasks where appropriate.

For further details please refer to enclosed job description.

Person Specification Experience

• Ability to communicate information to individuals/groups/committees in a comprehensive way.
• Ability to plan and organise basic activities or programmes underpinning relevant H&S topics and legislative requirements.
• Confident in preparing and delivering basic written reports.
• Confident to deliver training, presentations and/or reports to individuals, groups and or committees.
• Ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team with integrity and confidentiality, managing own workload and demands.
• Confident to communicate and share best practice in Health and Safety to multidisciplinary groups and all levels of staff throughout the organisation.
• Ability to handle difficult or complex situations with compassion and sensitivity.
• Project management.
• Experience of working within a care/ healthcare/NHS environment.

Skills and Knowledge

• Have knowledge of legislation and regulations relevant to scope of role.
• Competent in the use of a wide range of software e.g. Microsoft office, Risk Management system, SharePoint.
• Ability to make sound professional judgement on a broad range of Health and safety issues, with the autonomy to intervene where unsafe practice is identified.

Qualifications

• Specialist qualification in Occupational Health and Safety at Work (EG NEBOSH Cert) or significant, demonstrable relevant experience.
• Training Qualification.
• Patient Handling experience / knowledge.
• Moving & Handling trainers' certificate.

Employer name

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust