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Specialist Health & Safety Advisor, Violence and Agression Lead

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 26 June 2024
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
Oriau: Full time
Dyddiad cau: 26 July 2024
Lleoliad: Milton Keynes, MK6 5LD
Cwmni: Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd: Permanent
Cyfeirnod swydd: 6428927/430-CORP1448A

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A Vacancy at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.


Specialist Health and Safety Manager, Violence and Aggression Lead

Department: Corporate Services

Band 7 £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working

Are you ready to embark on an incredible career opportunity at Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH)?

Are you looking to take the next step and develop your skills? Are you prepared to contribute your ideas and learn through experience and experiment?

Would you like to have the opportunity to grow and develop your skillset within a dynamic support focused corporate team? If so, this role is perfect for you!

Here at MKUH, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create a safe engaging environment that values all unique skillsets and their contributions.

We are seeking to recruit a dedicated and detail-orientedViolence & Aggression reduction management professional, tobe part of our evolving friendly team of Health and Safety advice, support and scrutiny competent specialists.

Working within the Corporate Services Health and Safety Team, you must be passionate about creating and maintaining a safe workplace, while ensuring trust compliance with its general health & safety obligations and good practice requirements with a technical specialism and focus to violence and aggression reduction management.

Interview date: 30th July 2024

The role is a newly created corporate position that will allow you to develop your skills by being creative, whilst exploring new and emerging V&AR management processes and systems and policy development. You will have a hands-on integrated approach supporting management, staff and contractors.

Provide subject leadership and advice/guidance for the Trust Violence and Aggression reduction agenda, ensuring all arrangements for quality, performance, governance and safety for ongoing services development and delivery of training.

Be part of the Trusts Corporate Health and Safety Team and subject lead regarding the Trust violence and aggression reduction agenda; with the aim of eliminating or reducing the risk of violence and aggressive incidences within the trust so far as is reasonably practicable.

Ensure that a range of techniques, methods, policies, and procedures are competently drafted and in place to ensure the safety of staff, patients and others affected by the trusts activities so far as is reasonably practicable and are reviewed/amended as appropriate.

Be part of the implementation of the Trusts Health and Safety Agenda across the organisation and to provide advice/guidance/support to management and staff in all areas of health and safety policy, good practice and regulatory compliance as appropriate.

Our staff are the happiest NHS staff; MKUH staff scored highest for ‘I look forward to coming to work’ (NHS Staff Survey 2023).

You can expect a warm welcome at Milton Keynes University Hospital, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At MKUH we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
• Free on-site parking
• Free tea and coffee
• Great flexible working opportunities
• Discounted gym membership
• Lease car scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• On site nursery (chargeable)
• Extensive staff health and well-being programme

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital; we conduct research and teaching on site to improve the care of our patients. The hospital is undergoing significant investment, and we are proud to be rated good by the CQC. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Trusts violence and aggression risk reduction subject Lead, Responsible Person, and Subject Matter Expert.

Assisting the Trust Head of Health and Safety with the development and implementation of relevant Health and Safety Policy E.G.Restraint and Restrictive Practices Policy etc.

Specialist/Lead
• The post-holder will be responsible for supporting/deputising as appropriate for the Trust Head of Health and Safety andfor the collaborative development of strategies regarding the Trusts’ Violence and Aggression risk/incident reduction agenda.
• The post holder will be the subject matter expert (for internal and external stakeholders) retaining and developing expertise to develop linkages across the various elements of the Trust’s undertakings.

Patient safety
• Promote good practice and prevent adverse effects to patients and staff through contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of related policies.
• Work with key stakeholders (E.G. Patient safety, Security, Estates & Facilities,Head ofOccupational Health, Staff Health and Wellbeing, Infections Control, Union Safety Representatives, etc.) in the identification and development of systems and arrangements for staff wellbeing in relation to Violence and aggression and restraint reduction issues.

Financial & Physical Resources
• The post holder is responsible for managing monitoring and maintaining role specific allocated resources/budget E.G. V&A training in line with the Trust financial governance policies.
• The post will be responsible for the needs’ identification, procurement, and maintenance of all relevant equipment e.g. training aides etc.

Staff supervisory responsibility
• The post holder will oversee the Violence and Aggression work being carried out by the team’s Health and Safety Coordinator and assumes an indirect supervisory responsibility in this regard.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details

MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices. We promote an inclusive workforce and encourage applications from applicants from all backgrounds.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Upon commencing employment with the Trust, all employees (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are subject to a probationary period lasting a period of six months with an option to extend for a further six months to a total of 12 months.


This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Jul 2024

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