Safety Advisor inTRURO inTRURO PUBLISHED 26 DEC 2023

Band 4: £26,530 to £36,483 a year Pay band subject to qualification  PERMANENT 
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust are currently seeking an enthusiastic Safety Advisor to join the busy.


PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click view the supporting document on the right hand side


To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

  • Identity Checks
  • Professional registration and qualification checks
  • Employment history and reference checks
  • Work health assessments
  • Criminal record check standards
  • Right to work checks

For further information please visit:

www.jobsincare.com/job/jSnKRcXD


We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.


Please note that applications from unqualified candidates is encouraged, as fully funded training can be given. Successful candidates with a level three qualification will be employed at pay band 5, successful unqualified candidates will be employed at pay band 4 until qualified.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust are currently seeking an enthusiastic Safety Advisor to join the busy

Health & Safety Team on a full time 37.5 hours per week permanent contract.

The Health & Safety Team support all care groups and corporate services Trust wide. At the heart of what we do are the people we support who are actively and meaningfully involved in their own departmental services providing acute healthcare service to both the residents of Cornwall and visitors.

The Department was formed in 2and now supports around 7,000 people a year across the three main sites. Our work falls into three principal services: Health, Safety and Moving & Handling.

The Safety Advisor post is responsible to the Senior Safety Advisor and is a key post in the Safety section of the wider Health & Safety team.

This customer facing role requires excellent interpersonal and telephone skills, the role includes interaction with internal staff, external agencies and our partners and occasionally members of the public.

The post holder will be responsible for advising on technical matters and assisting with the development and implementation of robust systems and staff as well as maintaining existing processes, within the Safety team, monitoring the organisation and action plans on the specialisms covered by your section of the wider team.

As part of the Professional Practice Team, you will actively participate in supporting Trust staff to carry out risk assessments, investigations, preparing action plans and providing training, in order to reduce the levels of risk.

The post holder will support the Senior Safety Advisor with the provision of specialist health and safety advice and guidance, provision of face to face and remote internal training, monitoring and measuring of internal performance to ensure progress against the Trust health and safety strategy and achievement of health and safety objectives / targets as identified in the business plan.

Arrange and/or re-arrange at short notice meetings, training, monitoring and assessments as necessary.

Data entry and text processing of data/information, including data that may have been compiled by others using a variety of Microsoft Office standard application.

Ensure the Health, Safety, Moving and Handling Team are providing reports for Trust wide KPI's, measuring against team standard work procedures so that timescales are being met in relation to completion of assessments, investigations etc.

Support Senior Safety Advisor with the development and provision of training materials, registers, face to face training and presentations.

The post holder will potentially travel anywhere within the Trust geographical area, which may sometimes be at short notice.


PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click view the supporting document on the right hand side


To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

  • Identity Checks
  • Professional registration and qualification checks
  • Employment history and reference checks
  • Work health assessments
  • Criminal record check standards
  • Right to work checks

For further information please visit:

www.jobsincare.com/job/jSnKRcXD


We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.


Please note that applications from unqualified candidates is encouraged, as fully funded training can be given. Successful candidates with a level three qualification will be employed at pay band 5, successful unqualified candidates will be employed at pay band 4 until qualified.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust are currently seeking an enthusiastic Safety Advisor to join the busy

Health & Safety Team on a full time 37.5 hours per week permanent contract.

The Health & Safety Team support all care groups and corporate services Trust wide. At the heart of what we do are the people we support who are actively and meaningfully involved in their own departmental services providing acute healthcare service to both the residents of Cornwall and visitors.

The Department was formed in 2and now supports around 7,000 people a year across the three main sites. Our work falls into three principal services: Health, Safety and Moving & Handling.

The Safety Advisor post is responsible to the Senior Safety Advisor and is a key post in the Safety section of the wider Health & Safety team.

This customer facing role requires excellent interpersonal and telephone skills, the role includes interaction with internal staff, external agencies and our partners and occasionally members of the public.

The post holder will be responsible for advising on technical matters and assisting with the development and implementation of robust systems and staff as well as maintaining existing processes, within the Safety team, monitoring the organisation and action plans on the specialisms covered by your section of the wider team.

As part of the Professional Practice Team, you will actively participate in supporting Trust staff to carry out risk assessments, investigations, preparing action plans and providing training, in order to reduce the levels of risk.

The post holder will support the Senior Safety Advisor with the provision of specialist health and safety advice and guidance, provision of face to face and remote internal training, monitoring and measuring of internal performance to ensure progress against the Trust health and safety strategy and achievement of health and safety objectives / targets as identified in the business plan.

Arrange and/or re-arrange at short notice meetings, training, monitoring and assessments as necessary.

Data entry and text processing of data/information, including data that may have been compiled by others using a variety of Microsoft Office standard application.

Ensure the Health, Safety, Moving and Handling Team are providing reports for Trust wide KPI's, measuring against team standard work procedures so that timescales are being met in relation to completion of assessments, investigations etc.

Support Senior Safety Advisor with the development and provision of training materials, registers, face to face training and presentations.

The post holder will potentially travel anywhere within the Trust geographical area, which may sometimes be at short notice.



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