PERSON SPECIFICATION
Education & Qualifications Essential: • NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent • Accredited member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Desirable: • NEBOSH Fire Certificate or equivalent • Sound knowledge of relevant health and safety and associated legislation relating to a health care setting • Accomplished health and safety professional with experience in a health care setting • Demonstrable experience of leading effective change and driving positive health and safety culture in a comparable setting • Experience in health and safety auditing • Experience of designing and delivering an effective and efficient health and safety training programme within a health care setting Experience Essential:
Desirable: • Experience in working across multiple departments within a health care setting
Skills & Knowledge • Excellent organisational and communication skills and production of concise information • Ability to produce strategic health and safety reports for presentation to the senior board • Ability to influence colleagues at all levels of the organisation effectively to achieve objectives • Excellent oral and written communication skills, in particular experience of writing policies and preparing committee and board papers • Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints • Experience of managing a team to deliver plans and objectives to budget and on time • Demonstrated experience of working on and assisting with projects in a health care setting • Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships at all levels • Ability to demonstrate achievement of continuous improvement in the workplace
ORGANISATION & STRUCTURE
Personal Qualities • Commitment to the vision and values of The Children’s Trust • Flexible and ‘can do’ attitude to competing commitments in workload • Highly motivated and reliable • Ability to cope working in a demanding environment
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