Health and Safety Co-Ordinator

Wilf Ward Family Trust; Pickering; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Pickering is looking for a Health and Safety Coordinator to ensure compliance with health and safety standards in operational settings. The role involves supporting internal and external partners, providing advice, and contributing to compliance audits. Ideal candidates will possess relevant qualifications and have a strong understanding of health and safety regulations. This position promotes a commitment to safeguarding vulnerable individuals and requires thorough pre-employment checks.

Qualifications

• Experience in health and safety compliance and monitoring role is essential.
• Understanding of environmental management practices is preferred.
• Proven ability to work with various stakeholders, including external specialists.

Responsibilities

• Support health and safety compliance within the organization.
• Work with external specialists to ensure service levels are met.
• Contribute to developing emergency response plans and risk assessments.

Skills

Health and safety compliance

Monitoring and reporting

Emergency response planning

Internal auditing

Education

Relevant health and safety qualifications

Job description

We are seeking a suitably qualified health and safety coordinator to join the Health and Safety team and lead on the day-to-day support given to operational colleagues to ensure they understand what compliance looks like and how to achieve it.

The responsibilities within this role include (the list is not exhaustive):

Responsibilities

• Support with escalation meetings between external landlords and managing agents in connection with health and safety compliance.
• Supporting internal and external partners with commissioning and decommissioning assets in Supported Living provision and Residential services in respect of health and safety compliance.
• Act as a support to the Strategic Lead for H&S to ensure compliance in workplace health and safety and environmental management.
• Provide proactive monitoring and specialist advice to our operational teams regarding accidents and incidents within our services.
• Work in conjunction with the wider Quality Team to develop emergency response plans ensuring that emergencies, near-misses, and critical situations are appropriately reviewed; and lessons learnt from these reviews are shared across the Trust.
• Working with Regional Operations Leads, Registered Managers, the admin team and external contractors to ensure compliance documentation is in place and delivery is in line with required standards.
• Work with external Health and Safety specialists (Fire, Water, Electricity, Gas) contractors to ensure that our service level agreements are being adhered to.
• Work closely with our Central Support teams to ensure effective development of organisational processes and procedures.
• Contributing to internal auditing processes to identify concerns and areas of best practice.
• Supporting development of Fire Risk assessments within low-risk settings. For example, offices and low risk-based care settings.
• Working with the Quality Improvement Manager team on validating in house regular compliance checks recorded by service managers for example water temps, through a program of planned site visits and inspections.

Founded in 1986, The Wilf Ward Family Trust is dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals with disabilities. We empower them to lead fulfilling lives and embrace innovation to stay at the forefront of social care. Join us on our journey towards equality and a brighter future. Welcome to the Wilf Ward Family Trust.

We recognise the importance of recruiting skilled, compassionate, and reliable staff, whilst demonstrating in practice our commitment to inclusion, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk. Please be aware it s a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group such as adults or children. Please note any successful job offer will be conditional based on pre-employment checks such as DBS and referencing prior to a start date agreed. The Wilf Ward Family Trust has a clear commitment to safeguarding within all practices, for more information on criminal discloses you can visit Check if you need to tell someone about your criminal record: When you need to tell someone about your criminal record - GOV UK