Health & Safety Manager

Royal Marsden; London; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Interim Health & Safety Manager for a fixed term of 12 months to cover maternity leave. This role is crucial for providing expert health and safety advice, ensuring compliance with legislation, and leading risk assessment programmes across the Trust. The successful candidate will require a NEBOSH Diploma and previous experience in a healthcare setting, and they will play a key role in promoting a positive health and safety culture.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Clear career pathways

Flexible working requests

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a safety professional within a healthcare environment.
• Ability to develop and implement health and safety policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive health and safety advice across the Trust.
• Lead the risk assessment programme and health and safety performance monitoring.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Risk Management

Education

NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification in Occupational Health and Safety

Degree level qualification in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent

Job description

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Main area Quality Assurance Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract 12 months (Fixed Term will end on 26 July 2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 282-OD562

Employer The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Royal Marsden Sutton Town Sutton Salary £59,490 - £66,239 per anum inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 04/07/2025 23:59

Job overview

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Interim Health & Safety Manager to cover maternity leave as a 12-month fixed term contract.

The Interim Health & Safety Manager will act as the competent person to provide expert advice on health and safety matters across the Trust. This role involves strategic leadership and direction for health and safety management, ensuring compliance with legislation and standards through risk assessments and audits.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive health and safety advice to the Trust, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
• Interpret legislation and guidance to develop and implement Trust-wide health and safety policies and procedures.
• Lead the risk assessment programme for non-clinical areas, oversee incident management, and ensure monitoring of health and safety performance.
• Lead the Health, Safety and Security Committee, collaborating with the Chair to develop and deliver health and safety training programmes.

Requirements:

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent postgraduate qualification in Occupational Health and Safety.
• Experience as a safety professional within a healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a large, complex organisation.

Join us to provide strategic leadership in health and safety management and promote a positive health and safety culture at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (RM) regards its responsibility for health, safety and welfare as a matter of prime importance. The Interim Health and Safety Manager will act as the competent person to provide advice on Health and Safety matters to the Trust, providing expert health and safety advice across the organisation and strategic leadership and direction for the management of health and safety at RM. The post holder must hold a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent postgraduate qualification in Occupational Health and Safety and have experience as a safety professional with knowledge of working within a healthcare environment. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate experience of working within an organisation of comparable size and complexity.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

2.1 Fulfilling the role of the competent person to provide advice on health and safety matters and arrangements within the Trust, as required under regulation 7 of The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

2.2 Provide corporate advice on statutory and legal requirements for Health and Safety.

2.3 Provide expert advice, guidance and support to staff at all levels on health and safety matters and arrangements.

2.4 Be the corporate lead for professional advice and support in the continuous development of Health and Safety.

2.5 Provide strategic leadership and direction for the overall management of health and safety within the Trust.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent qualification
• Recognised Health and Safety qualification to NEBOSH Diploma level 6 or equivalent
• Certified member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or equivalent

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in the management of health and safety
• Awareness of current Health and Safety regulations
• Experience of working in the NHS or a healthcare environment
• Ability to effectively implement and deliver training programmes
• Corporate training experience in complex risk management issues such as risk assessment and incident investigation
• Experience in undertaking complex risk assessments
• Experience in undertaking ergonomic workstation assessments
• Experience in using the incident reporting system Datix

Skills Abilities/knowledge

• In-depth knowledge of health and safety legislation sufficient to advise on all aspects of health and safety management to staff within the Trust.
• Ability to interpret new guidance and legislation and disseminate key facts and information.
• Broad understanding of the non-clinical risk issues within a health setting
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills which includes servicing meetings and reporting/briefing.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence staff at all levels.
• Excellent organisational skills, including high level of accuracy and ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Ability to assimilate information quickly and make reasoned judgements under pressure.
• ability to work under pressure
• Time management skills (ability to manage own workload)
• Ability to work on own initiative and as an effective team member.
• Use of IT packages – excellent knowledge of Outlook, Excel and Word
• Ability to focus on detail but maintain a corporate perspective of the objective.
• Ability to produce and deliver a training package

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

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