Health & Safety Manager CB2 0QQ Job Cambridge area,England UK,Business

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Job Description

Job title:

CEFM Health & Safety Manager

Hours of work: 37.5

Location:

Capital Estates and Facilities Management

To whom responsible:
Head of Estates Safety, Compliance & Resilience

The successful candidate will support the Head of Estates

Job summary:

Safety, Compliance & Resilience to ensure the Capital

Estates and Facilities Management Division conducts its activities in a safe manner, so far as is reasonably

practicable, to meet its obligations under health and safety legislation and other regulatory requirements.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Act as a “competent advisor” regarding health and safety and provide managers and staff across CEFM with health and safety advice on a range of work procedures, practices and complex situations.

Develop and undertake a risk assessment programme. Provide expert advice and support managers and staff in undertaking risk assessments in relation to health and safety issues.

Develop CEFM-related health and safety policies, procedures and guidance so that they reflect legislative requirements and best practice to enable CEFM to operate safely and remain compliant against Trust wide policies, procedures and guidance. Ensure new or amended policies, procedures and guidance are communicated and implemented.

Develop and undertake a rolling programme of CEFM wide health and safety audits/inspections initiated from;
Incidents, Investigations, CAS/Patient Safety Alerts and Risk entries.

Analyse findings, identify gaps in health and safety compliance and make recommendations to improve the health and safety of staff, patients and contractors.

Monitor audit action plans until achieved. Escalate any issues as appropriate.

Present complex, sensitive or contentious health and safety information as and when required.

Deliver face-to-face training on a range of specialist health and safety topics, the Trust’s incident management system (Datix knows as QSiS) and Risk Management Training. Produce e-learning modules to support the development of staff health and safety knowledge and awareness. Develop and make available a range of learning materials to support training sessions.

Work closely with CEFM Risk Leads to monitor the CEFM divisional risk register to ensure all risks are logged and appropriate actions are assigned in order to reduce risks to as low as reasonably practicable.

Support the Head of Estates Safety, Compliance & Resilience in the planning and implementation of projects aimed at improving the health and safety of staff, patients and contractors. Deliver programmes at a local level within Divisions, as required.

Analyse and interpret health and safety data, identify common themes and trends and make recommendations for improvement. Ensure data is available for local subgroups and corporate meetings such as CEFM Board, CEFM Health & Safety Group and Trust Health & Safety Committee.

Maintain data on CEFM health and safety key performance indicators. Ensure that the information is provided in a clear format.

Prepare and present regular reports for CEFM Groups and Governance Meetings.

Attend and contribute to meetings of relevant groups within CEFM to provide health and safety expertise.

Closely and regularly monitor incident reporting and risk registers via QSiS and liaise with managers as required to ensure corrective and preventative actions are taken to meet health and safety needs and practices of the CEFM division

Manage and investigate health and safety incidents including CEFM RIDDOR incidents.

Identify failures, participate in Root Cause Analysis and lessons learnt and make recommendations for improvement to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.

Liaise with the corporate H&S Team to ensure that CEFM RIDDOR incidents are reported in accordance with HSE timescales (the H&S team will undertake reporting of all incidents to the HSE)

Maintain strong relationships and links with Trust’s corporate Health and Safety Team, Divisional…