Job Summary
The Head of Occupational Health Service will lead and manage the Occupational Health Service to provide high quality occupational health services for Lincoln Community Hospital Group and a range of external clients. Providing overall leadership for the Occupational Health Service hosted by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and serving colleagues across the Lincolnshire Care System.
Leading the Occupational Health Service, you will help colleagues stay at work or return to work following a period of unplanned absence, playing a key role in helping prevent illness and injuries related to work. The work will be varied, combining leadership skills with influencing, and shaping the behaviours of individuals and organisations.
The Head of Occupational Health Service requires strong leadership and management skills and an understanding of legislative requirements within the fields of occupational health, health and safety, and employment law. Clinical knowledge and experience is essential to this role.
The Head of Occupational Health Service will also ensure key performance indicators are met, in terms of patients, service level agreements and within assigned budgets. This post has a key focus on improvements, based on quality improvement principles, innovation, and the use of intelligent automation and will lead the service as it adopts industry best practice to SEQOHS standards.
Post will start on or after 1st May 2025
Please note this JD is indicative to job matching
Main Duties of the Job
Effectively lead, manage and be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality standards across the Occupational Health Service in a way that is responsive to the needs of Lincoln Community Hospitals Group and client organisations.
Lead and be accountable for the design, creation and development of shared occupational health services. Ensure best practice systems, policies, pathways and procedures are developed, monitored, maintained and continuously redeveloped to ensure high quality, leading edge, customer focused, value for money, efficient and effective service delivery within a bio-psycho-social model.
Ensure that effective systems and standard operating procedures (SOPs) are in place to offer an efficient and user-friendly service to customers/service users and that the systems are maintained and redeveloped on an ongoing basis in conjunction with internal/external client and service needs (as assessed through client and service feedback from time to time) and in line with best practice, leading edge industry standards and NHS compliance standards.
Draw on industry best practice and breaking technologies, identify opportunities to use automated and other technological opportunities to improve and optimise both the staff and customer experience, and translate these opportunities into practice across occupational health and other services for the county and beyond.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Qualified Clinical Practitioner registered with appropriate regulatory body.
* Level 7 standard of education (e.g., masters) or equivalent experience.
* Previous experience of management and leadership at band 8b level.
Desirable
* Registered Specialist Practitioner Community Public Health Nurse (Part 3 NMC) or equivalent.
Evidence of Skills
Essential
* High level verbal and written communication skills, sufficient to write policy, plans, complex reports and engage with employees, managers and partners.
* Confident in using ICT systems relevant to role, including Management Information Systems and MS Office.
* Excellent analytical skills with an aptitude for developing innovative solutions to complex issues.
Experience
Essential
* Good general knowledge of the NHS and current clinical standards within Occupational Health services or equivalent/similar services.
* Up to date knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and best practice guidance.
* Experience of strong leadership, inspiring others to deliver transformational projects and impactful results.
* Experience writing and implementing Policy and Strategy.
* Experience of managing changing priorities and complex situations.
* Experience of managing and controlling budgets, resources and funding.
Desirable
* Clinical governance and audit knowledge.
* Experience of working with private contractors.
* Specialist knowledge of health and safety governance and risk management.
* Experience of working in Occupational Health in the NHS.
Additional Information
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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