Health and Safety Co-ordinator - Leigh, United Kingdom - Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Leigh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Health and Safety Coordinator.

The role will provide operational support to the daily functions of the team and will facilitate with the coordination of health and safety across the organisation.

In addition, you will:

Develop and maintain databases that support the Trust's Safety Management System.
Perform general administrative and support tasks as directed to support the operation of the Health and Safety Team, including contributing to relevant and meaningful reports.
Assist with promoting health and safety and safe working practices in the workplace.

The post requires a person who is a team player, someone who has:

Strong organisational skills that allow you to plan and prioritise a varied workload and be able to work to defined timescales with a high degree of initiative and accuracy.
Excellent interpersonal skills that enable you to communicate effectively with a variety of staff groups at all levels.
Efficient IT skills and be experienced and proficient in the use of Microsoft packages including word, excel and PowerPoint, and other health and safety related software systems.
The ability to take minutes, prepare statistics and manage databases.

Administering, reviewing, and following-up on incidents and investigations, via Datix Web System.

Performing preliminary investigations relating to incidents, including coordinating the Trust's RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations) Investigation process.

Contributing to report production by keeping accurate records, collating and checking data, and completing initial statistical analysis so that themes and trends can be identified.

Facilitating meetings, preparing agenda papers, sourcing agenda items where necessary, taking minutes of meetings etc., including following up actions.

Administrating the software systems used to support various safety management processes.

Undertaking administrative duties and providing office cover.

Supporting the training function provided by the Health and Safety Team.

The successful Health and Safety Coordinator will ideally:

Be educated to GCSE level or equivalent including Maths and English and hold the Business Administration NVQ Level 4 or have a willingness to undertake.
Have administrative experience and a strong knowledge of Microsoft packages.

Excellent oral and written communication skills with the confidence to communicate at various levels.

You will be a self-motivated individual with a professional outlook, able to work alone and as part of a team.

Accuracy and attention to detail will be important to you. You will be able to prioritise your work to meet deadlines.

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas.

At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity.

With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

On-Call

Please note that senior positions (AFC band 8A or above) may be expected to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.

Administer, review, and follow-up on all non-clinical, staff and organisational incidents and investigations, via Datix Web Risk Management System, with the daily review and quality check of incidents.

Perform preliminary investigations in response to non-clinical incidents, including co-ordinating and supporting the Trust's RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations) Investigation process.

Provide administrative support to the Health and Safety Team during serious incident investigations as required.

Assist the Health and Safety Manager to ensure all external reporting is carried out in a timely manner to the Health and Safety Executive under RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations) to ensure the Trust is compliant with the Regulations.

Contribute to report production by keeping accurate records, collating and quality checking data, and undertaking initial statistical analysis so that themes and trends can be identified, and action taken to address.

Administrate health and safety software systems and support the ongoing maintenance of the same.

Facilitate meetings as requested and as commensurate of the post, including preparing agenda papers, sourcing agenda items where necessary, taking minutes of meetings and distribute as required, including those of the Occupational Health and Safety Group, and following up meeting actions and recordin