Vacancies Health & Safety Advisor

Overview of the role

You will promote a positive health and safety culture throughout the organisation and ensure that colleagues are adhering to current health and safety expectations by creating and implementing health and safety policies and procedures.

Also, you will support the business H&S Manager and total Management Team in identifying areas for continuous improvement and implementing using best practice as the norm.

Main Responsibility

• Carry out risk assessments and consider how risks could be reduced
• Outline safe operational procedures which identify and take into account all relevant hazards
• Carry out regular site inspections to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented
• Ensure working practices are safe and comply with legislation
• Prepare health and safety strategies and develop internal policy
• Lead in-house training with managers and employees about health and safety issues and risks
• Keep records of inspection findings and produce reports that suggest improvements
• Record and investigate incidents and accidents and produce statistics for managers
• Keep up to date with new legislation and maintain a working knowledge of all Health and Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and any developments that affect the pharmaceutical / distribution industry
• Engage staff in the workplace with use of H&S notice boards and open door policy
• Inform H&S reps of the monthly meetings and keep them informed of any changes to the details
• Produce monthly meeting presentation and support / chair the meetings
• Produce and send out the monthly minutes to mangers and H&S reps for them to brief out
• Ensure staff are trained by competent trainers
• All mandatory training is up to date and staff or competent in relation to statuary regulations
• Arrange for training to ensure first aiders, fire wardens and safety reps meet the statuary requirements
• One point of contact (previous knowledge preferred) - value add spending time working with NFU providing information needed to support and defend claims
• Reduce claims / Solicitor / legal costs
• Act as a role model with the business, delivering root cause analysis & mitigating risk & reoccurrence
• Planning ahead and working with peers to ensure mandatory training and competencies within operational areas are met and adhered to
• Negotiating skills to convince managers of the need to implement and maintain safety standards that may compromise speed or efficiency in the organization
• The ability to understand and analyse complex information and present it simply and accurately
• An interest in the law and the ability to understand safety regulations

Key knowledge and skills required for the role:

• NEBOSH General Certificate or working towards
• Can work on their own initiative or as part of a team
• Thrives on a challenge in a changing environment
• Is analytical, but has a flexible approach to working
• A team player but able to work under own initiative and able to escalate matters out of own limitations
• Proactive – has a “can do” attitude and seeks out information when require
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills
• Able to build and develop good quality, professional relationships
• Ability to work openly and collaboratively to maximise overall organisational health
• Competence in training delivery an advantage
• Proficient IT skills including MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Comfortable with data analysis and numerical reasoning
• Capacity to learn

The Ideal Candidate

Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

Package Description

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Paid Holidays
• Workplace pension scheme
• Staff Discount
• Travel Loans and more….. 

About the Company

For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

‘Together we make a difference’