Job Details
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 37.5 per week, Mon - Fri
Location: Hybrid- Crawley, West Sussex – three days per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 6th Oct
In a nutshell
We're looking for an Employee Health Specialist to join our Health, Safety and Security Operations team, supporting the Employee Health Services Manager to deliver our VAA Employee Health Plan. This will include changing policy and process to improve employee health and productivity. You will support the maintenance of service level agreements and continued cost discipline across our service providers (Occupational Health (OH), Travel Health, Overseas employee medical response providers, Drug and Alcohol testing providers). You will lead specific workstreams and projects within occupational health, and support authoring and publishing OMB AvMed or other regulatory information, and responses to emerging Public Health risks and PHEIC.
Day to day
* Support the Employee Health Manager in the delivery of the Employee Health Plan, ensuring transformational outputs in line with the overall Health strategy and our ‘Most Loved’ airline mission.
* Liaise with and effectively influence internal and external stakeholders to ensure industry best practices in Employee Health are adopted.
* Proactively support the management of medical risk within the Safety Management System, including managing Occurrence Reports, Risk Assessments, and Risk Logs.
* Support any emerging Public Health risks and PHEIC and the company response.
* Assist Health Managers with the advancement and development of the HRRG.
* Lead investigations into significant employee medical welfare events and audits.
* Support Health Managers and liaise with key internal stakeholders during major medical events.
* Provide oversight and advice to management teams and the employee relations team in proactive management of OH cases.
* Maintain a watching brief, author and issue destination health briefs, providing proactive health promotion materials relating to employee health issues.
* Advise managers and the employee relations team on key aspects of sickness absence management.
* Advise managers and the business on health surveillance programmes and oversee the delivery of HS programmes via outsourced providers.
About you
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
* NMC registered Nurse on Part 1 of the register or equivalent qualification, along with Post Graduate Occupational Health qualification.
* Experience (or proven interest) in travel health and occupational health as applied to multiple environments and locations.
* Previous team/line management experience with project and change management experience.
* Knowledge of Occupational Health, Health and Safety, Employment law, and Airline regulation and Airline Health risks, and the interaction between each discipline.
* Strong legislative, operational, and commercial awareness.
* Significant experience of health risk management, preferably in aviation or transportation.
* Proven ability to analyze and interpret health data from a wide variety of sources (internal and external) and make sound risk-based judgments and recommendations.
* Strong interpersonal skills, effective peer-to-peer relationships, and influencing skills.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills with influencing skills at all levels both internally and externally to VAA, including the ability to compile and deliver recommendations, presentations, and reports to Health Management.
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