Health and Safety Advisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
The Health & Safety Advisor will provide professional health and safety advice across the Trust, ensuring a safe environment for staff, patients, visitors, and contractors. This role involves identifying, assessing, controlling, and managing health and safety risks in accordance with UK legislation and Trust policies. The postholder will work closely with clinical and corporate services to support the delivery of a robust safety framework.
Essential criteria
- Nebosh Diploma or working towards or equivalent
- Masters or equivalent experience/knowledge.
- Relevant professional qualifications at Diploma level or above E.g.: NEBOSH Diploma Parts 1&2 in Occupational Health and Safety, or equivalent. Membership of a professional body (e.g.: IOSH/ BSC/ CIMOSH)
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/training qualification
- Substantial experience working in a healthcare setting with exposure to standard setting and use of a risk register.
- Substantial prior experience In a senior Health and Safety Advisory role in a large, complex organisation
- Experience in training/teaching in Health and Safety
- Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to formulate, plan, develop, organise and implement a broad range of complex activities across the Trust, including adapting and adjusting to deal with uncertainty, as necessary: oe.g.: improving Trust performance with mandatory training in health and safety subjects.
- Excellent self and time management
- Nebosh Diploma or working towards or equivalent
- Masters or equivalent experience/knowledge.
- Relevant professional qualifications at Diploma level or above E.g.: NEBOSH Diploma Parts 1&2 in Occupational Health and Safety, or equivalent. Membership of a professional body (e.g.: IOSH/ BSC/ CIMOSH)
- Teaching/training qualification
- Substantial experience working in a healthcare setting with exposure to standard setting and use of a risk register.
- Substantial prior experience In a senior Health and Safety Advisory role in a large, complex organisation
- Experience in training/teaching in Health and Safety
- Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to formulate, plan, develop, organise and implement a broad range of complex activities across the Trust, including adapting and adjusting to deal with uncertainty, as necessary: oe.g.: improving Trust performance with mandatory training in health and safety subjects.
- Excellent self and time management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Health and Safety Advisor
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
The Health & Safety Advisor will provide competent, professional and practical health and safety advice across the Trust, supporting the delivery of a safe environment for staff, patients, visitors and contractors. The postholder will work closely with clinical and corporate services to ensure health and safety risks are identified, assessed, controlled and effectively managed in accordance with UK legislation, HSE guidance, NHS requirements and Trust policies.
Main duties of the job
- Provide competent health and safety advice to managers and staff across the Trust.
- Undertake and support risk assessments, including COSHH, violence and aggression, DSE and other workplace risks.
- Investigate accidents, incidents and identifying root causes and recommending corrective actions.
- Monitor compliance with health and safety legislation, HSE guidance,
- Conduct health and safety inspections and audits.
- Advise managers on appropriate risk controls and monitor actions t.
- Provide specialist COSHH advice.
- Support the management of violence and aggression, slips, trips and falls, manual handling and other occupational risks.
- Assess and support RIDDOR reporting.
- Deliver health and safety training.
- Work collaboratively with Occupational Health, IPC, E
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