Job Description

Health and Safety Manager | Manchester | Private Hospital | Permanent | Full time | 37.5 hours per week | Competitive basic salary plus excellent benefits

Spire Manchester Hospital is seeking an experienced Health and Safety Manager to join their team on a permanent, full-time basis.

Spire Manchester Hospital offers a comprehensive range of specialist treatments in purpose-built private hospital facilities in Didsbury. Part of the award-winning Spire healthcare group, we're world-class experts offering fast access to specialised and personalised healthcare using some of the latest diagnostic and treatment technologies.

Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm

As Health and Safety Manager, you will be responsible to assist the Hospital Director to coordinate the implementation and management of the Spire Healthcare Health & Safety Management System across the Hospital.
You will provide support for the operational management of health, safety and risk, and all related systems and initiatives for the hospital, with the aim of ensuring the provision of high quality, safe care and services at all times.

Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to):

• The oversight of the day-to-day management of health and safety through support and guidance to operational sites. This will require the Health and Safety Addendum roles to be managed at a local hospital level with oversight of compliance by the H&S Manager.
• To support line managers to ensure that working practices are established for employees, clinicians, contractors, patients, visitors and volunteers who visit or work at the hospital do so in a safe and healthy environment in accordance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of the Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 are complied with.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety Policies and Guidance across the hospitals and provide assurance to Hospital Directors

What do you need to have?

• Good standard of secondary education with demonstrable literacy and numeracy skills.
• IOSH Managing Safely / IOSH Working Safely course
• NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
• Previous experience working in the healthcare industry or a similar customer orientated organisation.
• Track record of successful people and process management, ideally in a multi-functional environment
• Understanding of Health & Safety and risk issues and legislation in a healthcare organisation
• Competent user of the MS Office suite of products in order to meet the requirements of the role
• Ability to understand and manage effectively the impact of competing pressures and conflicting priorities
• Ability to challenge constructively in a solution orientated way
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Good interpersonal and team working skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Outlook, Word and Excel

Benefits:

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

• 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gym membership discounts:
• Family friendly policies
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Our Values

• We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.