Main area: Occupational Health
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri. Requirement to travel across service footprint and other locations as necessary.)
Job ref: 350-TWS6768822
Site: Hollins Park House
Town: Winwick
Salary: £53,775 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 03/12/2024
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our friendly multidisciplinary Team within the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Why?
We have recently completed a re-structure which has created new opportunities and roles. We have secured a new operational service based at Hollins Park House, Winwick, Warrington and satellite units at Netherton Health Centre, Yew Tree Health Centre, and V7 Kings Business Park areas of Liverpool to support delivery of the service across the Trust’s footprint. We will also support opportunities for flexible working in line with operational demands.
Main duties of the job
Who do we want?
We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and experienced team player to apply for the role of Clinical OHW Lead Nurse Specialist, whose role will provide leadership and presence within the team and across our clinical/corporate Divisions. If you are pro-active, dynamic, and motivated to support the development of the team/service, this job is for you!
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What does it involve?
The role involves working in collaboration with Clinical OHW Lead Nurse Specialist Colleagues as part of the team. Planning, delivering and ensuring the service remains safe, effective and provides a robust quality service. In addition to the leadership and management aspects of the role, the post holder will also be required to have line management responsibilities and a proportionate clinical workload.
In addition to the Trust, you will be required to provide an expert and reliable Occupational Health Service to other paying private organisations, including other NHS employers and private companies/businesses.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE
* Substantial experience of working in Occupational Health Services
* Proven record of success in managing significant change whilst developing and maintaining the provision of a high-quality service
* Detailed knowledge of professional accountability and impact of NHS issues
* Importance of equality, diversity and rights
* Broad range of clinical experience in a range of settings, significant post registration experience at a senior level
* Experience of working to Dept of Health, Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health and Safety Executive requirements
* Experience of audit and clinical/service governance requirements
* Budgetary management experience
* Knowledge of current health & safety practice and legislation and infection control
* Experience in providing advice on sickness absence rehabilitation and fitness to work and the production of quality management reports
* Experience of delivering workplace immunisations
* Knowledge of blood borne viruses
* Knowledge of Occupational Health Service Standards for Accreditation (e.g. SEQOHS)
* Experience in initiation of appropriate blood tests following immunisation and to check immune status for infectious disease/blood borne viruses
* Knowledge of immunisation and biological immune response, especially to Hepatitis B
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Evidence of service development and change management
* Evidence of changes in practice using research and audit
* Experience in research, audit and monitoring of Occupational Health Services
* NHS Occupational Health Experience in Acute and/or Mental Health/Community Trust
* Familiarity with providing OH Services to commissioned contracts
* Demonstrable experience and direct involvement in service accreditation requirements e.g. SEQOHS
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
* Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to develop strategy, business reports and maintain a high standard of record keeping
* Ability to work unsupervised
* Ability to manage a team of staff, including carrying out appraisals and personal development planning
* Able to work under pressure and to provide flexible responses and solutions to problem solving
* Well-developed influencing, negotiation and coaching skills
* Can demonstrate vision for the future development of Occupational Health Services
* Presents self in a professional manner
* Ability to prioritise and manage workload effectively
* Able to travel between the Trust sites as required
* Excellent communication skills in highly complex and difficult situations
* Complex and highly specialised skills relevant to occupational health
* Demonstrates specialist clinical expertise
* Ability to advise on Equality Act 2010 matters
* Demonstrable working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation
* Ability to make complex evidence-based decisions without protocols or guidance when necessary
* Demonstrable evidence of positive clinical leadership
* Production of policies, guidelines to meet legislation standards
* Ability to manage own workload and caseload, with minimal supervision
* Teaching and assessing skills
* IT skills/email/spreadsheet’s ability to create and present reports
* Evidence of innovative ways of working
Others
* Ability to travel across sites to meet service requirements
* Ability to perform a wide range of duties according to the Job Description
Qualifications
* RGN (Level 1)
* OH qualification (part 3 of NMC register) and significant OH experience to demonstrate competence of OH clinical leadership and ability to work at OH specialist Nurse level
* Evidence of CPD in last 6 months
* National Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
* Relevant Leadership or Management Development Programme
* Evidence of post graduate level study at advanced specialist level
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
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