Health, Safety & Facilities Manager - Support Office

Health, Safety and Facilities Manager - Support Office

This role is based in Epsom and Barbican, with equal time spent in each. This is an office-based role

Facilities | Permanent | Full Time

Competitive salary, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that's building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes - we'll do whatever it takes to look after the UK's wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

As our Health, Safety and Facilities Manager you'll be responsible for Support Offices in Epsom and Barbican, ensuing that they are clean, tidy along with creating a safe and healthy working environment for all staff and visitors to Nuffield Health.

The Health, Safety and Facilities Manager will lead, motivate, supervise and develop the clean team, ensuring that there is consistency in service across both Epsom and Barbican offices, with responsibility for health & safety, cleaning and waste services across both Support Offices defining departmental objectives, monitoring progress and ensuring these are achieved.

As our Health, Safety and Facilities Manager, you will:

• Responsible for effective people management including recruitment, development, deployment, performance review, attendance management, resolution of employee relations issues (e.g. requests to work flexibly or part time, disciplinary and grievance matters).

• Assist clean team leaders with cleaning schedules and deep clean planning.

• Be responsible for implementation of and compliance with all relevant standard and legislation, including health & safety.

• Oversee cleaning services, waste and associated stock within both offices, and organise the repair of cleaning equipment as required.

• Ensure the post room is serviced daily including all post is scanned and sent to the appropriate teams and that the franking machine is topped up regularly.

• Interact with all Suppliers and Maintenance Providers and ensure they are supported onsite and have had a site induction completed and documented.

• Hold effective departmental meetings.

• Work with the Building Service Engineers, ensuring the high standards of the office are kept to.

• Ensure that all supplier paperwork is maintained to the standards required (including staff records and DBS checks) and that the team are maintaining health and safety guidance in relation to COSHH.

• Be responsible for implementation of and compliance with all relevant standard and legislation, including health & safety.

• Be an Epsom and Barbican offices 'go to' for all ISO and H&S audits, internal and external, action plans and objectives are kept up to date

• Be an active and key member of the Health and Safety Committee.

• Become a Nuffield Health Fire Marshall and First Aider soon after joining Nuffield Health

To succeed as ourHealth, Safety and Facilities Manager, you will:

• Have great communication skills, whether face-to-face or on the phone. You will have the confidence and empathy to provide excellent support to all sorts of people.

• Possess excellent organisational skills and can prioritise with the changing needs of those around you.

• Feel confident in dealing with people at all levels, managing expectations of those in positions of authority, challenging and escalating where necessary.

• Be resilient to challenges.

• Have the ability to explain sensitive or complicated information in a clear, sympathetic and easily understood way.

• Be able to diffuse difficult situations whilst being self-motivated

• Develop positive and professional relationships with regular office visits so they feel it is a safe and welcoming environment.

• Ensure policies and processes are fit for purpose and able to identify where policies need to be developed.

• Monitor all policy violations and manage them within policy.

• Be able to juggle the delicate balancing act of process versus the exception to these.

• Think a little outside the box and always look for ways to improve the service we provide.

• Be proficient in using Microsoft Office.

• Strive for continuous improvement.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. From free private healthcare to gym membership, a cycle to work scheme and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

It starts with you.

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