Role: Health and Safety Officer
Location: This role is to cover our South Hospitals. The ideal candidate will live in South Midlands or a surrounding area.
This role will involve working and travelling across multiple sites. There will be the occasional travel to our Bolton Head Office.
Hours: Full-time position, 37.5 hours per week.
Salary: £32,000 - £35,000

Here at SpaMedica, our focus is on patient care, safety and satisfaction. As the UK’s largest provider of NHS cataract surgery, we’re experts at what we do, and that’s evidenced in the five-star feedback we receive from our patients.

Joining us as a Health and Safety Officer you will support our visions and values of safety, integrity, kindness and transparency are embedded in our day to day care to ensure we deliver the best service possible.

All of SpaMedica’s hospitals inspected by the CQC have been rated as ‘ Good’ or ‘ Outstanding’.

Responsibilities of the Health and Safety Officer:

• Provide a range of guidance and training to managers and colleagues throughout the business as directed. This will include Risk Assessment, COSHH, Induction, Policy, Processes and Procedures
• Support the Health and Safety Manager in promoting and ensuring that a Health and Safety culture is at the forefront of all business needs.
• Work closely with Regional Facilities Managers (RFMs) and Hospital Area Managers (AMs) and other key roles to support in resolving issues and management of H&S risk.
• Monitor the performance data of training requirements and completion rates.
• Support the H&S Manager with the reporting of adverse events, RIDDOR’s and non-clinical InPhase (Ideagen) incidents).
• Provide expert advice on specific Health and Safety issues to colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
• Monitor incident trends on behalf of the Hospital Directors for clinical sites and the Health and Safety Manager for non-clinical sites, reporting findings on a bi-monthly basis.
• Undertake general admin duties including but not limited to the management of the various H&S related SharePoint sites to ensure the smooth running of the Health and Safety function.
• Champion and represent the H&S Department and H&S Manager, as directed, including attending relevant meetings.

SpaMedica benefits:

• 25 days holiday (increasing with length of service) + Bank Holidays
• Discretionary Performance bonuses awarded twice a year
  • Company performance bonus
  • Personal performance bonus
• Professional membership fee reimbursement
• Enhanced Maternity & Adoption pay
• Free flu vaccinations and DBS
• Reimbursement for eye tests and glasses (up to £75)
• Eligibility for Bluelight card
• Continuous training and development (apprenticeships, internal development programmes)
• Recommend a Friend Scheme (£350 reward for both)
• Access to exclusive discounts, colleague perks, online recognition and wellbeing hub on our SpaMedica&Me platform

We’re proud to be Investors In People Platinum Accredited which puts us in the top 7% of IIP organisations.

We are rated a great place to work and hold awards for GPTW Best Workplaces for Development, Women and Wellbeing.

Join SpaMedica: Where our values guide everything we do, and you can make a life-changing difference every day. Apply today and be part of a team that puts patients at the heart of everything we do.

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

Equality and Diversity: SpaMedica is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. We ensure our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at careers@spamedica.co.uk.

Our Commitment: Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We ensure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Disability Confidence: We are a Disability Confident employer and are committed to inclusive recruitment practices. We welcome applications from individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

For more about us, visit SpaMedica.