Compliance Risk & Safety Manager

Job Introduction

We have a great opportunity to join our Healthcare team within Sodexo. You’ll be joining our County Hospital, Hereford account as our new Compliance, Risk and Safety Manager. You’ll be the business unit lead for risk and safety management, ensuring compliance with relevant statutory, mandatory and contractual obligations of the contract.

You will play a key part in the development, implementation and coordination of risk and safety management systems, policies and procedures and associated documentation. You’ll also be responsible for  monitoring of the business unit risk, environmental, safety and waste management performance and the provision of statistical analysis and reports as required.

Role Responsibility

• Business unit lead for risk and safety management, including contingency and emergency planning, environmental and health and safety management, responsible for ensuring compliance with relevant statutory, mandatory and contractual obligations.
• Development and implementation of risk and safety management systems and associated documentation to meet business unit requirements.
• Co-ordination of the relevant elements of the management systems, including, but not limited to, business continuity plans, emergency response plans, safe systems of work, waste management systems, etc.
• Development, implementation and enforcement of policies and procedures relating to CDM and the management of contractors, including but not limited to the induction of sub-contractors, review of contractor safe systems of work and monitoring of contractor activities whilst undertaking works on site. 
• Monitoring of business unit risk management, environmental and safety performance through the conduct of internal audits, the preparation of audit schedules, reports and action plans, and the monitoring of identified actions to completion.
• Monitoring of employee adherence to prescribed safety practices, including identification of opportunities/requirements for development and training.  Provision of supporting information for disciplinary proceedings as required.
• Undertaking accident and incident investigations, the preparation of investigation reports and the identification of corrective and preventative actions, and the monitoring of corrective/preventative actions to ensure completion.
• Submission of accident, incident and near miss data.
• Member of the Sodexo Health and Safety Committee, including the preparation of papers and reports to the committee as required.
• Promotion and reinforcement of positive safety culture, including the delivery of corporate safety initiatives.
• Liaison with heads of service to co-ordinate and/or deliver the relevant risk and safety training

The Ideal Candidate

• Health and safety qualification (NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent).
• Suitable experience of  risk and safety management experience in an operational environment.
• Audit qualification and experience.
• Experience of working within the healthcare sector, including knowledge and experience of HTM/HBN guidance.
• Experience of co-ordinating and delivering training.
• Experience of conducting accident and incident investigations and preparation of investigation reports.
• Experience of liaising with regulatory bodies (ie, HSE) and internal and external auditors.
• Experience of preparing statistical data, providing detailed analysis and formulating recommendations.
• Experience of working with integrated management systems (ISO or equivalent).
• Proactive and pragmatic approach to issue resolution.

Desirable

• Food Safety qualification (Level 3 or equivalent).
• NEBOSH CDM.
• Waste management qualification.

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store. Plus bonus incentive.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.