Job Description

Health and Safety Coordinator | Sutton Coldfield | Private Hospital | Part time 22.5 hours | Fixed term contract – 12 months | Competitive Salary and Excellent benefits

Job Purpose

To support the Health and Safety Officer in coordinating and implementing the delivery of Health, Safety and Risk strategies at the facility. Assisting the Health and Safety officer in ensuring the provision of high quality and safe care and services at all times. Promote a positive culture of health and safety in the workplace.

Overall Responsibilities

• All administration requirements for the maintenance of the Health & Safety Management System folder.
• Collation of H&S incidents from Datix reports. Trends, near misses, etc.
• Redirecting of general enquiries that are sent to the Health and Safety Manager, to members of the health and safety team as required.
• To deal with telephone queries, directing calls to the appropriate H&S person, taking messages or dealing with the enquiry in a professional and efficient manner.
• Maintenance of Hospital Wide Action Plan spreadsheet, and follow up on outstanding actions as directed by the Health and Safety Manager.
• Administration of the Health &Safety Flash alerts, responding to central health and safety team within the time frame of 7 days and collation of departmental responses.
• Health & Safety Training - records administrator; assist with course registration, issuing certificates as required.
• Advise the Health and Safety Manager if actions or risk assessments are not being managed in a timely manner.
• Take minutes and distribute minutes of all Health and Safety/operational committee meetings. Including, Water, Fire, ventilation, medical devices, Waste Management and Safety Representatives meetings etc.
• Assisting the Health and Safety Manager in the conducting of Monthly hospital wide health and safety monitoring inspections and audit.
• Assisting the Health and Safety Manager in ensuring that there are adequate induction health and safety training arrangements (including first day fire safety instruction) in place for staff employed at, or routinely working at the facility, and other staff working at the location.
• Coordinating or arranging safety training and monitoring training % of mandatory eLearning health and safety related training.
• Administration and collation of compliance information for relevant committees.
• Additional specific tasks may be required as directed by the Health & Safety Officer/ Operational Director.