Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

NHS Blood and Transplant; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Blood and Transplant in Manchester is looking for a Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor. This role involves advising staff on health and safety issues, developing training programs, and investigating workplace incidents. The successful candidate will work closely with management and various departments to enhance workplace wellbeing and compliance with legal standards.

Qualifications

• Experience providing advice and training in health and safety.
• Experience in a multi-site organization managing health and safety.
• Commitment to continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional Health, Safety and Wellbeing services to managers and staff.
• Deliver training and assess needs for health and safety improvements.
• Engage with senior management for HS&W performance reporting.

Skills

Health and Safety Advisory

Training

Auditing

Policy Formation

Accident Investigation

Education

Post graduate qualification to master’s level in occupational health and safety

Chartered Safety Practitioner

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Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor, Manchester

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Client:

NHS Blood and Transplant

Location:

Manchester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job Summary

This is a highly varied role with the scope to make a considerable impact on the wellbeing of our staff. Working with all levels of the organisation, you will deliver evidence-led health, safety and wellbeing (HS&W) advice. Helping staff to understand how they can balance their patient safety and service delivery priorities with legal compliance and their own HS&W, you will become a trusted partner to their work. Identifying gaps in knowledge, you will deliver training courses to up to 15 people, and you will be a trusted expert when sharing your findings via reports. Determining how legislation will affect policy, you will also take specialist responsibilities for risk, assurance or improvement. So regardless of whether you are communicating one-on-one with staff regarding work-related stress, working with colleagues to inspect the scene of a workplace accident, or collaborating with the Trade Unions to enable constructive conversations, you will deliver practical solutions to complex challenges.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be required to provide a professional Health, Safety and Wellbeing service to managers and staff. Your responsibilities will include:

• Planning with directorates, facilitating consultation, providing accurate and timely advice
• Assessing training needs and delivering training
• Encouraging effective working between Occupational Health, Human Resources and Managers
• Engaging and influencing senior managers, HS&W performance reporting
• Working with Directorates on HS&W improvement initiatives over a large geographical area supported by HS&W Advisors.
• Providing additional support for specialist areas as required by Head of Health and Safety Policy and Planning. The specialist areas are: Risk, Assurance and Improvement.
• Risk - profiling NHSBT HS&W risk to include Residual Risk reduction, producing national model risk assessments, and trending
• Assurance - measuring performance, investigating accidents and incidents, to include maintenance of the H&S management system including policy, standards and the HS&W audit programme
• Improvement - reviewing performance, learning lessons, to include responsibility for day to day management of litigation, Root cause analysis, Trending and corrective and preventative action
• You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, when required, with prior notice

About You

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience as a Health and Safety Advisor providing advice, training, auditing, policy formation, facilitating consultation and planning
• Experience of working for a multi-site organisation
• Experience of accident investigation, inspections and audit
• Experience of working closely with occupational health to find practical and effective workplace solutions
• Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Qualifications and Training

• Post graduate qualification to master’s level (this could include a NEBOSH Diploma) in occupational health and safety or equivalent relevant qualification OR equivalent experience.
• Possession of Chartered Safety Practitioner with the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health or working towards
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD)