Senior Occupational Health Nurse Advisor
As part of NHS England's Growing Occupational Health Vision, our occupational health service is undergoing a period of significant change focused on improving the health and wellbeing of our staff. We are developing our established team and have a number of exciting opportunities within the occupational health department, so now is a fantastic time to join us.
The post holder will work as an essential member of the occupational health and wellbeing team and support in delivering an effective, efficient, responsive and high-quality service. Although the job base is Skidby House, this role does allow flexible hours and working arrangements including home-based working options and hybrid options.
To help us achieve our aims, we are looking for a highly motivated, well-organised individual who is able to communicate across a wide group of individuals. We are seeking to recruit a qualified, experienced, highly motivated, and enthusiastic occupational health advisor.
You will be involved in all aspects of the service, providing a high-level comprehensive Occupational Health Service to Trust staff, facilitating employee wellbeing through health screening, health assessment, and health promotion, working as part of a cohesive occupational health team within a very busy environment.
The ideal candidate will be highly confident, have excellent communication skills, proficient IT skills, and a flexible pro-active approach to manage a varied and demanding workload.
Main duties of the job
Working alongside our multidisciplinary team, maintaining your professional specialist nursing skills, you will work autonomously providing all aspects of specialist OH services delivering care with compassion.
A significant part of this varied and dynamic role will be to lead and support the development of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide and maintain a competent workforce that is responsive to our new ways of working.
Our MDT currently comprises a range of health professions: Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Clinical Psychology, OH Medical Practitioner, supported by our excellent Administrative Team.
About us
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Registration with NMC Part 1
* Demonstrates a clear understanding of professional accountability in the scope of professional practice.
* Innovative and adaptable, with strong leadership and management skills.
* Knowledge and experience of working in NHS occupational health
Experience
* Managing complex cases; must have experience in mentoring/facilitation/teaching/assessing/coaching.
* Broad experience in Occupational Health
* Minimum of 12 months working in a healthcare environment
Skills and Competencies
* Ability to work effectively with minimum supervision.
* Able to prioritise own workload and manage own time, self-motivated and capable of working flexibly and to strict deadlines using own initiative.
* Able to manage the occupational health team in manager's absence.
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.
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