Health and Safety Officer

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust in Huddersfield is seeking a Health & Safety Officer to support the Health & Safety service across CHS and CHFT. This is a development role designed to help you establish and progress a professional career in health and safety.

Working with the Group Health & Safety Manager and Health & Safety Adviser, you will handle defined H&S activities, progress competence, and develop toward a Health & Safety Adviser role while learning through practical

Qualifications

• Good written and verbal communication across levels.
• Experience maintaining electronic records or monitoring systems.
• Experience in healthcare, estates or facilities environments is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Hold operational responsibility for defined H&S workstreams and monitoring actions.
• Engage with managers and staff to resolve compliance issues and progress actions.
• Analyse incident data, identify trends and support assurance reporting.
• Provide H&S advice within competence and escalate complex matters.

Skills

Written and verbal communication

Staff engagement

Initiative and problem solving

Organisation and prioritisation

Information analysis

IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel)

Education

GCSEs English and Maths

HND / Foundation Degree or higher

IOSH Working Safely or NEBOSH General Certificate

Tools

Microsoft Word

Outlook

Excel

Job description

Main area Health and Safety Grade Grade C Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8-4 Mon-Fri) Job ref 372-CHS1684-A

Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd Employer type NHS Site Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Town HUDDERSFIELD Salary £27,815 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/2026 23:59

CHS is able to offer a wide range of services. Our scale enables us to offer competitive rates and we have a long track record of providing high quality, customer-focused services.

We offer comprehensive estates, facilities management, medical engineering, catering solutions and procurement services supporting the provision of safe, effective healthcare to our communities. We are committed to delivering our Green Plan goals of reducing carbon emissions, air pollution, waste generation and improving recycling throughout delivery of our services. We also enable profit to go back into patient care.

CHS recognises that its staff are its greatest asset and that its business is its people. The company aims to create an environment and culture of openness, trust and honesty. We encourage and celebrate diversity because broader perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge will enrich and enhance the value we bring to each other, our clients, shareholders and other stakeholders.

Job overview

The Health & Safety Officer will support the delivery of the Health & Safety service across Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions (CHS) and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT).

This is a development role for someone wishing to establish and progress a professional career in health and safety.

Working alongside the Group Health & Safety Manager and Health & Safety Adviser, the postholder will take responsibility for defined areas of H&S activity while progressively developing the knowledge, experience and professional competence required to progress towards a Health & Safety Adviser role.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will undertake a varied range of operational H&S duties including workplace inspections, audits, incident investigations, DSE assessments and compliance monitoring.

They will coordinate and monitor actions arising from incidents, risk assessments and inspections; maintain H&S records and electronic monitoring systems; support COSHH management arrangements; and prepare reports, dashboards and management information.

The postholder will also provide practical H&S advice to managers and staff within their level of competence and escape more complex or specialist matters to senior members of the H&S team

Working for our organisation

At CHS we understand the differences in delivering our services in complex environments and we have a flexible approach to meet the needs of our customers. Our Estates and Facilities management functions alongside our Clinical Engineering, decontamination and procurement service, provides the following:

• Fully managed estate and building maintenance
• Clinical Engineering and Decontamination
• Procurement advice, guidance and governance
• Capital project management
• Transport
• Grounds maintenance.
• Catering
• Cleaning (including robot and deep cleaning)

All provided to nationally recognised standards giving you assurance that your premises and equipment will be the best they can, and your customers will have confidence in you as a provider.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Detailed Job Description

• The Health & Safety Officer will hold operational responsibility for a number of defined H&S compliance workstreams, including the Trust-wide DSE programme, action tracking systems, electronic compliance monitoring and elements of COSHH quality assurance.
• The postholder will independently manage a varied workload across multiple departments, engage directly with managers and staff to resolve compliance issues and progress corrective actions, and undertake lower and medium-complexity investigations within their competence.
• They will analyse information from incident and compliance systems, identify trends and areas requiring intervention, contribute to organisational assurance reporting and identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and consistency of H&S systems and processes.

Main Responsibilities

• The postholder will be responsible for managing allocated H&S workstreams and ensuring that associated assessments, records and actions are appropriately monitored and progressed.
• They will exercise judgement in determining priorities and appropriate follow-up action, challenge unsafe practices where identified, and escape significant or complex concerns appropriately.
• The role requires regular engagement with staff and managers across CHS and CHFT and increasing day-to-day autonomy as competence develops.
• The postholder will be expected to actively participate in training, mentoring and professional development, with the longer-term objective of developing the professional competence and qualifications necessary to undertake a broader Health & Safety Adviser role

Person specification

Knowledge and Skills

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Confident communicator able to speak with staff at all levels of the organisation from senior leadership to front-line staff
• Comfortable taking the initiative to contact staff, visit work areas and open honest discussions, even where there may be resistance or discomfort
• Displays the confidence and integrity to engage in difficult conversations, challenge unsafe practice and stand by professional advice in order to support effective, well led and safe services
• Ability to explain health and safety matters clearly and practically
• Ability to interpret and apply procedures and compliance processes within defined areas of responsibility
• Basic IT skills including Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel
• Ability to organise workload, prioritise competing demands and manage tasks effectively
• Ability to analyse information and identify trends or areas requiring follow-up
• Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships across departments
• Able to work independently within defined areas of responsibility while seeking support and guidance appropriately
• Able to use initiative to identify and progress tasks and support the wider workload of the Health and Safety team
• Able to organise workload effectively and manage routine tasks with limited supervision as confidence and experience develop

Experience

• Experience maintaining electronic records, databases or monitoring systems
• Experience communicating with managers or coordinating actions across teams
• Experience in an administrative, customer service, compliance or office environment
• Experience supporting compliance, governance, safety or quality systems
• Experience working in healthcare, estates or facilities environments

Qualifications

• GCSEs or equivalent including English and Maths at Grade 4 (C) or above
• HND, Foundation Degree or equivalent higher education qualification
• Health and safety qualification such as IOSH Working Safely or NEBOSH National General Certificate

Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions (CHS) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on the Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. All applicants must review these criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current /most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £46.40, Standard £25.40 or Basic £25.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). For Enhanced and Standard DBS checks you will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £15 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

At Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, we are excited to offer a range of volunteering roles, providing rewarding personal and professional opportunities for people from all backgrounds across a wide age range from our local communities, ensuring our volunteers are representative of our service users.