Specialist Health & Safety Advisor, Violence and Agression Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Trusts violence and aggression risk reduction subject Lead, Responsible Person, and Subject Matter Expert.

Assisting the Trust Head of Health and Safety with the development and implementation of relevant Health and Safety Policy E.G. Restraint and Restrictive Practices Policy etc.

Specialist/Lead

• The post-holder will be responsible for supporting/deputising as appropriate for the Trust Head of Health and Safety and for the collaborative development of strategies regarding the Trusts Violence and Aggression risk/incident reduction agenda.
• The post holder will be the subject matter expert (for internal and external stakeholders) retaining and developing expertise to develop linkages across the various elements of the Trusts undertakings.

Patient safety

• Promote good practice and prevent adverse effects to patients and staff through contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of related policies.
• Work with key stakeholders (E.G. Patient safety, Security, Estates & Facilities, Head of Occupational Health, Staff Health and Wellbeing, Infections Control, Union Safety Representatives, etc.) in the identification and development of systems and arrangements for staff wellbeing in relation to Violence and aggression and restraint reduction issues.

Financial & Physical Resources

• The post holder is responsible for managing monitoring and maintaining role specific allocated resources/budget E.G. V&A training in line with the Trust financial governance policies.
• The post will be responsible for the needs identification, procurement, and maintenance of all relevant equipment e.g. training aides etc.

Staff supervisory responsibility

• The post holder will oversee the Violence and Aggression work being carried out by the teams Health and Safety Coordinator and assumes an indirect supervisory responsibility in this regard.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details

MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices. We promote an inclusive workforce and encourage applications from applicants from all backgrounds.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Upon commencing employment with the Trust, all employees (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are subject to a probationary period lasting a period of six months with an option to extend for a further six months to a total of 12 months.

Person Specification

Qualifications & knowledge

• Post-graduate qualification (Level 6/7) or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Level 3 Qualification in Conflict Management or equivalent or 3-year experience of advanced working within in a similar discipline
• Committed to continued professional Development
• Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace

• Technical Member level or above of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
• Member of the Institute of Conflict Management
• NEBOSH National General Certificate

Experience

• Knowledge in Health & Safety legislation and conflict management good practice requirements
• Experience of planning and delivering health and safety management training programmes
• Experience of liaising, influencing, engaging and advising management across a large and diverse organisation
• Experience of development, implementation and monitoring senior level action plans across an organisation
• Experience of multi professional working arrangements.
• Able to problem solve complex risk assessments demonstrating analytical and judgement skills
• Able to analyse risks and identify triggers that lead violence and aggression in relation to clinical environments
• Knowledge of education and training evaluation methodologies

• Experience of working within the NHS or Heath/Social Care or Public or Charitable sectors
• Experience of undertaking organisation-wide audits / reviews and feeding back results via action plans and recommendations
• Experience of managing people / live projects / strategic planning
• Accident/incident investigation experience
• Experience of managing the development, design and delivery of Conflict Management training and awareness programmes to audiences of a variable size and grades
• Experience of restraint reduction and delivering complex training strategies to support a culture of reducing restrictive interventions

Skills

• Able to identify and interpret Health and Safety legislative and good practice requirements within the Healthcare sector.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead and motivate others to bring about change and improvements to the working environment
• Communication and relationship skills, where agreement and co-operation is required
• Excellent communication, organisational and analytical skills with the ability to interpret and influence at all levels of the organisation
• Self-motivated and able to prioritise own work
• Ability to work independently and impartially
• Ability to analyse a variety of sources information to make appropriate judgments and recommendations in an investigative context

• Evidence of projects and or examples where leadership and motivation of others to bring about change

Personal & people development

• Willingness to continually professionally develop and undertake mandatory non-mandatory training

Communication

• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Professional telephone manner
• Professional all round communication skills
• Professional customer service skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Health & Safety (Dept)

Milton Keynes

MK6 5LD

https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/working-at-mkuh