Occupational Health Specialist (12 month FTC)
Your Manager: Occupational Health Manager
Team: Occupational Health
Location: Dumbarton - Kilmalid
Your new team
This position sits in our Chivas Brothers business. The Occupational Health (OH) team sits within the Human Resources department and is a team of 7 who support the business by delivering an effective Occupational Health Service. The team provides expert advice to managers and employees regarding individuals’ fitness to work/return to work.
Your unique contribution
The Occupational Health Specialist is responsible for the delivery of an effective Occupational Health Service across our organisation that meets and exceeds the expectations of its customers by adopting the latest initiatives in business health practice and developing preventative policy to add value and significantly influence the performance of the business.
You will have four main areas of responsibility:
* Occupational Health Service – support the day-to-day management and service delivery across agreed sites and develop influential relationships across the company to identify, promote and deliver OH data and services which enable improved health performance and organisational effectiveness. This includes sickness absence management and a comprehensive health surveillance programme.
* Employee Support – provide general OH support and advice in line with business strategy to management, union representatives, and employees, as well as being involved in the sickness absence management process and advising on long-term absence issues, return to work plans, and Equality Act advice.
* Training – conduct and educate key personnel on workplace health risk assessments.
* Continuous Improvement – integrate health considerations into business processes to help enhance productivity and individual capability and develop and implement OH policies, standards, and procedures to nationally accepted standards which reflect best practice.
Your blend of talent
This position could be right for you if you:
* Are a Registered General Nurse, with a degree in Occupational Health Nursing/NMC specialist practitioner status.
* Have post-registration experience, including experience in an Occupational Health environment.
* Have knowledge of current Health and Safety legislation and can demonstrate a sound knowledge of clinical health issues.
* Are knowledgeable about broader business issues and able to think strategically about how OH can add value to the Company.
* Possess strong project management skills, are IT literate, and can demonstrate a pragmatic, insightful approach to problem-solving.
* Hold a Current, Full UK driving licence.
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion
People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as ‘Créateurs de Convivialité’.
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