Health,Safety & Risk Manager - Healthcare

Job Introduction

Sodexo Healthcare are recruiting for an experienced Health, Safety & Risk Manager. If you have experience of Health & Safety within a technical services environment, ideally soft services, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. In this role you will act as the business unit lead for health, safety and risk management, ensuring compliance with relevant statutory, mandatory and contractual obligations.  You will be responsible for the development, implementation and coordination of risk and safety management systems, policies and procedures and associated documentation.  Monitoring of the business unit risk, environmental, safety and waste management performance will also be your focus together with the provision of statistical analysis and reports as required.

Role Responsibility

• Business unit lead for health, safety and risk 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, to ensure evidence of compliance is maintained and available, and that all documentation is suitable and sufficient for the intended purpose.
• 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 contractor management records, and the provision of feedback with regard to contractor safety performance.
• 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.
• Point of contact for corporate and external compliance audits.
• 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 (ie, DATIX/SALUS), collation of statistics (including LTIR) and provision of management information and reports.
• Provision of monthly and ad hoc risk and/or safety reports as required.
• Member of the Sodexo Health and Safety Committee, including the preparation of papers and reports to the committee as required.
• Attendance at all relevant contractual and ad hoc meetings 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.
• Establishment and maintenance of effective communications and working relationships

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Health and safety qualification (NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent).
• Proven consistent 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 (i.e., HSE) and internal and external auditors.
• Experience of preparing statistical data, providing detailed analysis and formulating recommendations.
• Articulate and confident communicator (both verbal and written), with the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships.
• Experience of working with integrated management systems (ISO or equivalent).
• Proactive and pragmatic approach to issue resolution.
• Attention to detail, with a commitment to continuous improvement and service excellence.
• Commercially astute.

Desirable

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

Package Description

£Competitive + excellent benefits

Based Hereford Hospital

Permanent

Work Pattern - Monday to Friday 40hrs pw. Flexible working considered

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About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

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.