Job summary
We are recruiting for a Senior Occupational Health Nurse Advisor who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be undertaking high quality occupational health assessments and offering expert occupational health advice.
You will support colleagues within the team to develop their skills, knowledge, and confidence. Involvement in the review of procedures that enable improvements in quality, efficiency, and customer service and support the growth of occupational health and wellbeing services.
You will have involvement in training and development on health and wellbeing issues.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
Use of specialist knowledge to undertake high quality occupational health assessments in face-to-face clinics, by video and telephone.
To undertake assessments autonomously seeking support and guidance where appropriate in relation to complex issues.
Maintain confidential, clear, accurate, electronic records of consultations in accordance with national and local guidelines and legislation.
Safeguard confidentiality in accordance with legislation and guidelines.
Provision of clear, impartial occupational health advice to managers and employees in written reports, on a telephone advice line and in case review meetings. Advice may include fitness for a new role, workplace adjustments, redeployment, approaches to prevent sickness absence, rehabilitation and return to work planning, suitable actions following a sharps incident or other workplace injury, health surveillance, reducing risk of injury or occupational disease, and suitability for ill health retirement.
Plan and deliver training and coaching in promoting health and wellbeing, preventing, and reducing sickness absence.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
1. The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
2. New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
3. Hertford County, Hertford
4. Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
5. Registered Adult Nurse, on part 1 of the NMC register
6. Diploma/ Degree in Occupational Health.
7. Evidence of Professional development
Desirable
8. Teaching and Assessing Qualification
9. Health & Safety training
Previous Experience
Essential
10. Undertaking occupational health assessments and providing advice
11. Clear accurate record keeping
12. Supervising,supporting and leading others
13. Training, coaching or developing others
14. Promoting health and wellbeing
15. Confident use of electronic record keeping, emails, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point and Teams
Desirable
16. Delivering immunisations
17. Use of Cority Software
Skills
Essential
18. Excellent communication
19. Customer service
20. Leadership
21. Expert Occupational Health assessment and report writing
22. Teaching, coaching and delivering presentations clearly and confidently
23. Confident in electronic record keeping
24. Ability to travel to clinics and external contracts work sites
25. Ability to adapt to change & have a flexible approach
Desirable
26. Health Surveillance
27. Venepuncture
Knowledge
Essential
28. Excellent understanding of a wide range of workplace health and wellbeing issues
29. Specialist knowledge of potential workplace hazards, safe systems of work and health surveillance.
30. Expert understanding of legislation and regulations relating to Occupational health
31. Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
32. Role model our Trust values every day
Desirable
33. Knowledge and understanding income generation and service level agreements