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 on-going 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. About us Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service. Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services. Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county. This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations. The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG). Date posted 05 February 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 8b Salary £62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number 357-LN-1909-24 Job locations United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Greetwell Road Lincoln LN2 5QY Job description Job responsibilities Please see the attached role job description for both the description and the person specification as it relates to this role. Job description Job responsibilities Please see the attached role job description for both the description and the person specification as it relates to this role. 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 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 Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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. Certificate of Sponsorship 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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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. Certificate of Sponsorship 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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust Address United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Greetwell Road Lincoln LN2 5QY Employer's website https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)