Job Description
Health & Safety Administrator | Spire Healthcare Facilities | Part Time - 20hrs per week | Competitive salary, dependent on experience | Private healthcare | Birmingham, Solihull |
Spire Parkway Hospital have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Health and Safety Administrator to join our team. This is a permanent position, for part-time hours working 20 hours per week.
We are looking to bring on a Health & Safety Administrator to join our established team. You will besupporting the Health and Safety Officers & Manager in coordinating and implementing the delivery of Health & Safety at the facility and ensuring the provision of high quality and safe care and services at all times.
Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull, West Midlands offers a comprehensive range of private hospital services. Our hospital is rated
Good by the CQC for all parts of the inspection except for Patient Care, which is rated Outstanding. The report states, “Staff treated patients with compassion and kindness, respected their privacy and dignity, took account of their individual needs, and helped them understand their conditions. They provided emotional support to patients, families and carers.”
Our dedicated hospital team are passionate about excellent patient care and we offer a range of specialist treatments to patients across Birmingham, Warwickshire and the West Midlands. This includes diagnostic services, rehabilitation, cutting-edge surgical procedures and excellence in specialist fields like orthopaedics, women’s health and cancer care. We have 51 bedrooms and five operating theatres.
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part-time, 20 hours per week - The majority of the working week will be hospital based; however, the job may entail some travel for training purposes that may require an overnight stay
Duties And Responsibilities
- All administration requirements for the maintenance of the Health & Safety Management System folder.
- Collation of H&S incidents from Datix reports. Trends, near misses, etc.
- Redirecting of general enquiries that are sent to the Health and Safety Officer, to members of the health and safety team as required.
- Updating local health and safety arrangements / policies as required and distributing throughout the facility.
- Maintenance of Hospital Wide Action Plan spreadsheet, following up on outstanding actions as directed by the Health and Safety Manager.
- Administration of the Health & Safety Flash alerts, responding to the central health and safety team within the time frame of 7 days and collation of departmental responses.
- Health & Safety Training - records administrator; assist with course registration, issuing certificates as required.
- Advise the Health and Safety Manager if actions or risk assessments are not being managed in a timely manner.
- Take minutes and distribute minutes of all Health and Safety meetings. Including, Water, Fire, Waste management and Safety Representatives meetings.
- There will be a requirement to complete further Health and Safety Qualifications as part of this role, with a view for promotion in the future.
Who We're Looking For
- Good standard of secondary education with demonstrable literacy and numeracy skills.
- Previous experience of a multi-functional role where flexibility is essential and experience working in the healthcare industry or a similar customer orientated organisation.
- Ideally comes with 3 years of administration experience.
- Understanding of Health & Safety and risk issues and legislation
- 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
- Proactive and able to self-motivate
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Good interpersonal and team working skills
- Car driver ideally
Benefits
We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free Bupa wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Free onsite parking
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Lukala Weber on Lukala.weber@spirehealthcare.com
Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
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.
About Us
At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We’re committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development.
We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to
'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.
About The Team
At Spire Parkway Hospital, we’re a leading provider of private hospital treatments for our patients across the Midlands and beyond. We offer specialised and personalised healthcare through fast access to consultations with specialists in a wide range of treatments, supported by advanced imaging and diagnostic technology.