Health & safety Advisor | Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,301 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Huddersfield, HD3 3EA |
| Company: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7320760/372-CHS1578 |
Summary
Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions (CHS) Ltd is looking for aHealth & Safety Advisorto join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to use your expertise to support health and safety across a wide range of hospital environments.
As our Health & Safety Advisor, you’ll:
Provide professional, practical advice to teams across estates, facilities, and clinical services
Conduct risk assessments and incident investigations to keep our staff, patients, and visitors safe
Work alongside managers to drive compliance with legislation and support continuous improvement
Help develop policies and governance frameworks to strengthen safety culture
Build strong relationships with staff at all levels, influencing positive change every day
About you
We’re looking for someone who is:
Qualified with a NEBOSH General Certificate (or willing to work towards it if you have relevant experience)
Experienced in providing health and safety advice within a complex organisation
Confident in leading incident investigations and supporting risk assessments
A great communicator, able to build trust and influence others
Passionate about creating safer workplaces and fostering a learning culture
What you’ll get in return
A supportive team environment
Opportunities for further training and development
The chance to make a visible difference to thousands of staff and patients
Main Tasks:
· Provide health and safety technical support and guidance for department. commensurate with your knowledge and experience and any information, instruction and training received. Provide incident & accident investigation/management for CHS and the trust
· Provide H&S guidance and advice on legal matters.
· Assist with Inputting of KPI, incidents and RIDDOR information into the company IPR report, assist with delivering this report to the CHS and CHFT board as required.
· The identification, management, reporting investigation and learning from health and safety incidents to include those reported under the Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations and Serious Untoward Incident (SUI) investigation.
· Compile compliance information on behalf of the Estates team for statutory returns such as ERIC (Estates Return Information Collection) / PAMS (Premises Assurance Model)
· Identify and undertake actions to decrease the risk of health and safety related incidents occurring and to improve outcomes in relation to patient, staff, and visitor safety.
· Support the implementation, monitoring and compliance of the business with ISO 9001 quality standards.
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At CHS we understand the differences in delivering our services in complex environments and we have a flexible approach to meet the needs of our customers. Our Estates and Facilities management functions alongside our Clinical Engineering, decontamination and procurement service, provides the following:
• Fully managed estate and building maintenance
• Clinical Engineering and Decontamination
• Procurement advice, guidance and governance
• Capital project management
• Transport
• Grounds maintenance.
• Portering
• Catering
• Cleaning (including robot and deep cleaning)
All provided to nationally recognised standards giving you assurance that your premises and equipment will be the best they can, and your customers will have confidence in you as a provider.
The postholder will play a central role in responding to health and safety concerns, across both CHS and the trust undertaking risk-based assessments and reviews and supporting managers following adverse events. They will advise on legal compliance, contribute to policy and governance frameworks, and work collaboratively with staff to identify and reduce risk across clinical and non-clinical environments.
This is an advisory role focusing on reactive or “lagging” H&S factors that, requires regular engagement with teams across estates, facilities, clinical services and support departments. The postholder will be expected to build strong professional relationships, provide credible advice, and contribute to fostering a culture of safety, learning, and continuous improvement.
Whilst the postholder has a corporate role, they will be expected to develop effective, collaborative relationships with the Directors, senior management teams and clinicians to support the governance and risk management structures.
Ensure up to date knowledge of all regulatory framework and best practice, making CHS board aware of changes as they arise.
· Take the lead with Service Managers and other stakeholders to ensure that CHS’s health and safety processes meet the business requirements of the organisation.
· Recruit and train the CHS H&S Champions.
· Manage and maintain appropriate databases, of Risk Assessments, Safe Systems of Work, and reporting systems in relation to health and safety data.
· Contribute towards the analysis of health and safety related data from multiple sources, drawing conclusions and making recommendations to the Head of Safety on appropriate action(s) to be taken.
· Contribute towards the production of periodic qualitative and quantitative reports with supporting narrative regarding health and safety as required.
· Represent CHS’s health and safety function at the Health & Safety Committees, external meetings, forums, and seminars as appropriate.
· Work collaboratively with colleagues in the Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust to provide a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach to risk management.
· Working closely with the trust legal team on compliance, risk, and legal matters.
Support the production, co-ordination and collation of all health and safety risk assessments, site inspections and audits, developing, implementing, and monitoring action plans to reduce identified areas of risk, escalating areas of concern in line with Trust policy.
· Support the implementation, monitoring and compliance with other audits including external organisations as required and prepare and monitor action plans.
· Develop, review and monitor strategies, policies, and procedures to promote best practice health and safety systems for CHS, liaising with appropriate managers and ensuring compliance with statutory responsibilities.
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025