Health & Safety Advisor

Well Pharmacy; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Bestway Healthcare is seeking a Health & Safety Advisor to be based at our Leeds depot. You will promote a safety-first culture, implement policies, and support improvements across multi-site depots and stores. Travel will be required between sites.

Ideal candidates hold or are working towards NEBOSH General Certificate and IOSH Managing Safely, with strong stakeholder engagement, and proficient IT skills. A full UK driving licence is essential.

Qualifications

• IOSH Managing Safely (Essential)
• NEBOSH General Certificate or working towards (Desirable)
• Full UK driving licence required
• Proficient IT skills including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Initial point of contact for health and safety issues
• Carry out risk assessments and identify ways to reduce risks
• Create Safe Systems of Work (SSOW)
• Manage risk assessment register and timely reviews
• Carry out site inspections for policy and procedure implementation
• Ensure practices comply with legislation
• Record, investigate incidents and provide trend statistics
• Engage with colleagues via safety briefings and notices
• Deliver toolbox talks and training
• Arrange training to meet statutory requirements
• Lead monthly health and safety rep meetings
• Provide support to Area Operation Managers

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Team player

Organisational skills

Driving licence

MS Office proficiency

Education

IOSH Managing Safely (Essential)

NEBOSH General Certificate (Desirable)

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Job description

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• Competitive salary, 35 - 40k dependent on experience
• Company vehicle
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

Overview of the role

Due to continued growth at Bestway Healthcare we are hiring a Health & Safety advisor to be based out of our Leeds depot!

As the Health & Safety Advisor, you will will promote a positive health and safety culture throughout the organisation and ensure that employers are adhering to current health and safety legislation by implementing health and safety policies and procedures. Additionally, you will support the Health and Safety Manager in identifying areas for continuous improvement and implementing best practices across the business

The role involves multi-site travel between depots and our Retail stores as required

Main Responsibilities

• Initial point of contact for health and safety issues
• Carry out risk assessments and consider how risks could be reduced
• Create task specific Safe Systems of Work (SSOW)
• Manage the risk assessment register and ensure all risk assessments are reviewed in a timely manager
• Carry out regular site inspections to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented
• Ensure working practices are safe and comply with legislation
• Record and investigate incidents and accidents and produce incident trend statistics for managers
• Review all incidents and ensure that all required investigation documents are collated within the ‘Golden hour’
• Engage with colleagues in the workplace with the use of H&S notice boards and safety briefings
• Create toolbox talks and train out to colleagues
• Arrange for training to ensure first aiders, fire wardens and reps meet the statutory requirements
• Lead monthly health and safety rep meetings
• Provide health and safety support and guidance to Area Operation Managers when required

The Ideal Candidate

You will have the ability to engage with colleagues and management to build a safety-first culture within the organisation by possessing excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. In addition, you will ideally have the following skills and experience:

• NEBOSH General Certificate or working towards (Desirable)
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent (Essential
• A team player but able to work under own initiative and able to escalation maters out of own limitations
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Proficient IT skills including MS word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Competent in training delivery will be an advantage
• Full UK driving license is required

Bestway Healthcare is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we’ll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

About The Company

With the purpose of improving the lives of our patients and customers, Bestway Healthcare supports communities across the United Kingdom and Ireland through an extensive network of community pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesale depots.

Our wholesale business unit operates two pharmaceutical wholesale brands, Lexon and Bestway Medhub which combined support over 5,000 independent community pharmacy contractors, processing over 100m packs of medication every year making us the 4th largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the United Kingdom. Our wholesale business unit also operates a leading appliance wholesaler, Wardle’s, a generic supplier Key Pharmaceuticals. We operate from 3 distribution centres with a fleet of vans delivering to independent pharmacies & directly to the most vulnerable patients every day.