Job summary
- Main area
- Health and Safety
- Grade
- Grade E
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7046501
- Employer
- AGH Solutions Ltd
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £41,208 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Health and Safety Coordinator (Grade E)
Grade E
AGH Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our NHS heritage, and proud to be supporting Airedale’s clinical services.
We provide a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, to clients both within and beyond the NHS.
Job overview
AGH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and provides Estates, Facilities and procurement services for the Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join our team here at AGH Solutions as the Health & Safety Coordinator.
This role will see you providing expert professional advice and leading the portfolio of compliance requirements for AGH Solutions on all aspects of Health and Safety legislation, ensuring that the company are able to demonstrate full compliance and provide assurance to the Board. You will also provide a documented work programme across all health and safety areas so that performance can be measured across this important range of issues.
Main duties of the job
To ensure compliant with all relevant health and safety legislation and regulations, implementing improvement actions where required
Ensure the provision of a comprehensive health and safety inspection programme across all locations.
Assist managers to understand and implement health and safety policies and procedures to ensure that all staff, understand their responsibilities.
Give timely and appropriate advice on health and safety issues to managers and staff to reduce the risk to the health and safety of employees at work, and others who may be affected by the AGH Solutions activities.
Working with the Health & Safety Manager and the Trusts Health & Safety Manager to coordinate the Health and Safety Group and establish and coordinate the activity of any subgroups/working groups as required.
Keep professionally up to date with all aspects of legislation, best practice, recommendations, and national guidance.
Working for our organisation
Benefits include
26 days holiday a year + Bank Holidays (pro rata)
24/7 access to Employee Assistance Line
Options to buy and sell annual leave
Access to 4 Staff Networks – Enable, Gender, Race Equality and Rainbow Networks
Onsite Children’s Nursery
Access to NHS Discounts
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NEBOSH General Certificate in Health and Safety
- Membership of an appropriate professional body (eg. IOSH, NAHS)
Desirable criteria
- NEBOSH / NCRQ Diploma or equivalent
- CDM Specific training/certification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant operational experience within health and safety or risk management fields Experience working within the public sector, understanding its systems and processes
- Experience of developing and implementing health, safety, security management in healthcare premises.
- Preparation of Directorate level reports and papers
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a healthcare environment
- Experience working in a fast paced estates and facilities environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Darren Slater
- Job title
- Estate Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294243
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