Health & Safety Manager - Estates & Facilities | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	14 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	13 August 2025
Location:	Manchester, M20 4BX
Company:	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7345624/413-96518-EF-SD

Summary

Working with the Quality and Standards team and the Health and Safety Lead, the post holder will provide competent specialist advice for the Trust to ensure all health and safety issues are appropriately reported and co-ordinated.

As a Health and Safety Manager you must have experience of working within health and safety in a healthcare setting or large complex organisation and hold the required qualifications, alongside proven leadership and excellent interpersonal and presentation skills at a corporate level. The postholder will deliver health and safety risk management training and communicate and influence in potentially complex and stressful situations involving staff, patients and/or other service users.

This position offers a great opportunity to apply and further develop your professional health and safety skills and experience in a supportive and dynamic team.

The role will be based at The Christie main site in Withington with the occasional need to travel between the Christie’s satellite sites in Macclesfield, Oldham and Salford.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you will need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments.

With responsibility for embedding a positive health and safety culture, the post holder will engage effectively with clinical and non-clinical colleagues, senior managers and key stakeholders to ensure effective health and safety management systems and processes are in place and are utilised to identify, manage and mitigate all levels of risk.

You must be able to demonstrate proven experience in a comparable role within the NHS or other large complex organisation. You will be familiar with health and safety legislation, contributing to policies and procedures, delivering health and safety training, completing of complex risk assessments, writing reports and leading on incident investigations (including RIDDOR reportable), ensuring root causes are identified, that lessons are learnt and that appropriate measures are implemented in a timely manner.

This post will provide leadership and expert knowledge in all matters relating to health and safety risk and risk management. You will contribute to operational services delivery which meets the Trusts objectives and targets and will ensure the Trust complies with all statutory requirements in terms of health and safety and ensuring continuous improvement and audits.

The ability to use IT systems and applications (Microsoft Office, risk management systems), organise, prioritise, meet tight deadlines and attention to detail is essential for this position.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Health and Safety Management
• Provide professional specialist advice and support within the Trust
• Contribute to the Trust's governance agenda, ensuring that a robust and active governance programme to include all aspects of risk management is embedded within the systems and procedures for all services.
• Providing general health and safety advice to managers on issues such as the management of health and safety in accordance with statutory and NHS guidance.
• Undertaking workplace inspections and investigations within the Trust and providing reports to the Health and Safety Lead, Managers and the Health and Safety Group as and when required.
• Attend the Trust’s safety groups; health and safety; infection prevention & control; fire; estates and facilities; and other committees, providing input as required.
• Contribute towards the development and implementation of Trust documents, including new Health & Safety policies and procedures and revision of existing policies, considering changes in legislation and recommendations made by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
• Produce general and specialist risk assessments where complex issues need to be considered, requiring analysis and interpretation.
• Provide guidance and training to those responsible for undertaking local risk assessments to reduce the risks to staff, patients and others.
• Support commissioning or decommissioning inspections relating to building, development, and refurbishment schemes to ensure appropriate health and safety standards have been achieved.
• Collaborate with the Trust’s subject matter experts, including the Health and Safety Lead, Fire Safety, Estates and Facilities Managers/Leads, Occupational Health, In-house Counsel, and other appointed persons to ensure robust arrangements are in place throughout the trust to minimise risk.
• Investigate reports of non-compliance with health and safety legislation, make recommendations for change if indicated, and support implementation of the changes.
• Investigate and formally report on serious & RIDDOR reportable incidents when required, including the identification of a root cause. Ensure appropriate organisations are informed within the required timescales. If necessary, co-operate with the police and HSE under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding for NHS trusts and take responsibility for leading the investigation. This may include exposure to incident scenes and restricted areas anywhere on the Trust’s sites.
• Support the investigations and provide specialist support and advice for non-clinical claims against the trust. Liaise with other professionals within and external to the Trust (Legal Services Department, NHS Litigation Authority, appointed Solicitors and representing Barristers etc.) to produce reports and provide specialist advice based on professional judgement. Where necessary, representing the Trust in court.
• Co-ordinate actions required to meet the health and safety-related objectives stated within the Trust’s risk management strategy.
• Ensure compliance with the HSE / CQC / NHS Improvement or other external assurance agencies standards relating to health and safety. Implement action plans to ensure compliance with these standards.
• Support the Trust’s health and safety interests at internal and external committee meetings and other forums.
• Work with colleagues in the Quality and Standards and other teams to undertake audits to monitor, interpret and evaluate health and safety performance information. Support managers at all levels in the completion of health and safety audits.
• Review reported adverse incidents to identify incident trends and opportunities for improvement.
• To deputise for the Health and Safety Lead as required, including chairing health and safety meetings as appropriate.
• Adhere to the IOSH professional code of conduct.

Education and Development
• Work with the Health and Safety Lead and colleagues in the Quality and Standards team to identify training requirements related to health and safety. This includes having joint responsibility for development and delivery or Trust-wide training sessions for health and safety (induction, essential training and other relevant sessions as required) in-line with legislation, best practices and industry standards.
• Assist with analysing training compliance and identifying trends.
• Assist with delivery of Corporate Induction sessions, promoting awareness of health and safety resources across the Trust.

Risk Management
• Support the implementation of the Trust’s risk management strategy.
• Contribute towards and collaborate with the Health and Safety Lead updating and/or the formulation of health and safety plans, policies and strategies.
• Participate in, and act as support, to Trust-wide committees as required. This includes setting agendas, preparing reports, policy reviews, collating relevant information for discussion and delivering verbal and written health and safety updates

Other Duties
• Provide managerial guidance and leadership to staff within the Quality and Standards team and others throughout the Trust.
• Undertake training relevant to the post in order to maintain a specialist knowledge base relating to health and safety.
• Attend relevant professional seminars/events facilitated by other organisations and statutory bodies (e.g. HSE, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH))to network with other health and safety professionals.
• Ensure own professional knowledge is regularly update and keep abreast of recent developments to maintain CPD.

This job description is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and is not intended as an exhaustive list.


This advert closes on Sunday 27 Jul 2025

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