Health and Safety Manager

Reporting to the Senior Health and Safety Manager . This highly proactive role will include responsibility for Health and Safety Management across the Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Across the Trust your principle role will be to implement and manage ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System whilst providing assurance via a regime of continual auditing, monitoring and review, that the Trust has discharged their statutory obligations across all their operational activity. You will develop, implement, manage and monitor policies and procedures relating to Occupational Health and Safety, to ensure that all statutory obligations are met.

And that key risks are actively managed to minimise their impact, or likelihood of occurrence, via the implementation of appropriate mitigation plans, business continuity planning and emergency preparedness, response and recovery. You will promote at all times a strong ‘Safety Culture’, and will ensure that delegated health, safety, related projects are delivered to the agreed programme, budget and quality, working to recognised Project Management standards.

The Role Holder Will Be Responsibility ForAttending and actively contributing towards the work of relevant groups, boards, committees and meetings across the Trust consistent with the scope of the positionAttending and participating in the Trust Health and Safety Group as appropriateCompetent professional adviceDevelopment implementation and maintenance of risk driven auditWorking with Trust legal team to analyse and investigate claims as appropriateEnsuring health and safety codes of practice, policies, procedure and standards are in place and updated accordingly on a regular basis.

Identifying and developing training with support of the Health and Safety Training Manager to ensure relevant developmental events and training exercises are deliveredMonitoring and evaluation, via a programme of audits the H&S performanceSupporting with the development of leading and lagging indicators and monitor performance against these, for continual improvement and management related risksSupporting with the implementation and operational maintenance of ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety StandardPreparing and providing reports to relevant groups, committees and boardsOversight and maintenance of the health and safety internet siteManagement and coordination of a programme of health and safety tours and inspectionLiverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: David Judge Job title: Snr Health and Safety Manager Email address: david. judge@liverpoolft. nhs. uk Telephone number: 0151 529 0835