Job Title: UK HSE Manager

Division: Primary Care UK

Location: Rhymney

Who We Are

The Primary Care division of DCC Healthcare has revenues of c.£150m in the German, Swiss and British markets enabled through its own commercial teams. High quality medical and diagnostic products are supplied for use in primary care, laboratory, and blue light settings. The division employs approximately 425 people in 3 countries.

Primary Care UK – consists of Williams Medical ( https://www.wms.co.uk/ ) with revenues of c.£60M and SP Services ( https://www.spservices.co.uk/ ) with revenues of c.£10M both specialise in providing a wide range of medical, healthcare products and equipment to healthcare professionals and organisations. Primary Care UK employs approximately 200 people across two purpose built facilities one in Telford, West Midlands England and one in Rhymney, South Wales.

Summary

Role Summary:

To be responsible for providing leadership for health, safety and environmental practices and initiatives across office, warehousing and distribution functions in the UK and support ensuring compliance across Primary Care EU footprint. Developing and implementing best practice and effective policy, ensuring the company complies with all current and relevant legislation. Working with Senior Management, within their areas of responsibility, to establish and maintain a programme of continuous improvement in the management of HSE. Providing insight, analysis, reporting and successful partnering to engage leaders develop good practice. Support management in building a health and safety culture within the organisation. Identifying opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of the organisation and maintaining compliance to ISO 14001. Manage the Facilities Co-ordinator to ensure improvements are long-lasting, value add and within budget as well as ensuring contractors are meeting all of their HSE obligations.

Responsibilities

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership Utilise the support of the Head of Regulatory Affairs and UK leadership team to identify areas of required progress Build and deliver leading programmes around health, safety and environmental awareness Create a 3-year plan that demonstrates future improvement to HSE Liaison and engagement with Senior Management to secure alignment of HSE legal requirements Keep up to date with all current and pending health and safety laws and legislation that proves appropriate to the organisation Culture Create and deliver effective training programs Accurately document and follow up on the minutes of the Health and Safety Committee meetings ensuring that you drive progress from the various action owners Create processes and policies (top down) that enable the businesses to better perform and ensure that these are not seen as a blocker to effectively function Partner senior management to help them identify health and safety gaps within their areas of responsibility and support to find alternative methods and means Support the Head of Regulatory Affairs align HSE policy and practices across Primary Care footprint of UK, Germany and Switzerland with monthly travel to ensure compliance Tactical Follow up risk assessments ensuring management ownership Compile the details of risk assessments to identify areas of continuous improvement Act as a liaison for all government authority bodies e.g. Police, Fire Authorities, HSE, Environment Agency Upskill all employees through effective training programs Manage and supervise all contractor control activities and supportive documentation Investigate all accidents, report to relevant stakeholders and ensure any actions are completed Drive down the environmental impact through recycling initiatives and management of waste disposal Monitor energy usage to develop ideas for reduction

Develop and carry out internal audits in relation to HSE that supports the development of people
Ensuring appropriate duties/legislative requirements are allocated appropriately and implemented at Group and site level
Working with site management ensuring sites are in full compliance with regulatory and corporate guidelines
Development and delivery of Safety F1rst, Good Saves and HSE Standards programmes
Development of Environmental Sustainability programmes including carbon reduction, waste and water management
Support of Accident/Incident and Good Saves (“Near Miss”) Management including investigation, corrective and preventive action and trending
Management of HSE Corrective and Preventive action process
Organising and participating in the auditing of group sites to DCC Vital HSE standards and where required supporting and hosting 3rd party audits as appropriate
Management of the Risk assessment and management process
Management of creation/review of HSE Standards, SOPs, forms within HSE management system
Developing and managing safety communications process including sharing learning from events across the group

The Successful Candidate Will Be Able To Demonstrate

Driving HSE within the workplace: Wealth of experience in implementing initiatives that unlock continuous improvement initiatives that improve visibility of HSE and drive productivity within the workplace.Proven ability to drive results, innovation and change. Takes ownership and takes accountability for delivering objectives.
Decision Making: Proven ability to have the courage to make fast decisions, whilst being action oriented and able to embrace ambiguity.
Team Player: Proven ability to actively listen, establishing trust and demonstrating integrity. Values creative contention, diversity of opinion, managing conflict and embraces company direction and culture.

Personal attributes

A pro-active self-starter: You're highly motivated and thrive in a fast-paced environment with autonomy.
A hands-on HSE all-rounder: You have a deep understanding of the HSE landscape and have successfully managed change and integrated projects.
A data-driven HSE professional: You have the ability to influence, engage and drive at all levels
Budget-savvy: You make every pound count and have a talent for achieving results, within an allocated budget.

Leadership Competencies

Candidates for this position will also be able to demonstrate competence in the following four areas:

Drive for Results: The successful individual will be highly numerate with a focus on results. He/she will be constantly measuring performance to create new and better means to achieve business success.
People Leadership: The successful candidate will be an engaging manager/leader who can create and foster a culture of achievement and accountability. He/she will be able communicate a compelling vision for the business and to motivate and support the team to excel.
Partnership: The successful candidate will have a collaborative style capable of developing relationships based on trust with multiple stakeholders to add value to our customers and suppliers.
Consultative Approach: The candidate will have an approachable style, with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels.

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