Head of Health and Safety

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Head of Health and Safety to provide strategic leadership for health and safety services across the Trust. This fixed-term position of nine months focuses on collaboration and continuous improvement within the Devon health and care system, ensuring all statutory obligations are met while enhancing the safety of employees and visitors.

Qualifications

• Experienced health & safety professional.
• Capable of providing expert leadership.
• Ability to collaborate with partners across the Devon system.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership to health and safety services.
• Ensure compliance with statutory obligations for health and safety.
• Develop proposals for strengthening collaboration across boundaries.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Health and safety regulations

Collaboration

Continuous improvement

Technical health and safety practice

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Executive and Specialist Recruitment Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced health & safety professional to work as the Head of Health and Safety at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This fixed-term post, offered for a period of nine months, will provide strategic and operational leadership to the health and safety and fit testing services across both our northern and eastern services.

This position reports directly to the Chief People Officer, the Executive Director accountable for health & safety for the Trust. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation meets all of its statutory obligations for health and safety and will be the senior Competent Person appointed under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 for the Trust.

We are seeking a capable, credible and forward-thinking leader who can set clear strategic direction for the service and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships both across the organisation and beyond. The post holder will play a key role in shaping how we work as part of the wider Devon health and care system, recognising that collaboration is essential to embedding and sharing best practice. They will be expected to review and further develop the Trust’s health and safety strategies, ensuring that future needs, particularly opportunities to support system-wide alignment and digital capability, are fully considered.

The post holder will have the ability to consider health and safety in the broadest sense, understanding how technical health and safety practice interlinks in with a range of specialist areas across the Trust and understanding how health and safety can be applied in a holistic way to ensure the wellbeing and safety of our employees and visitors to the Trust.

The post holder will provide expert leadership to the site Health and Safety Managers, the Fit Testing Programme Lead and the wider teams, acting as a point of escalation for complex or technical queries and supporting a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

During this fixed-term period, the post holder will be tasked with exploring how health and safety practices can be developed into a collaborative model, working closely with our partners within the wider Devon system. This will include engaging with system partners and developing a proposal to strengthen collaboration and leadership of health and safety services across organisational boundaries.

Interview Date: Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Please note, this is a fixed term contract for 9 months. For current NHS employees this post could be a secondment opportunity.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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