Adecco are pleased to be recruiting for an Occupational Health Advisor to join South Yorkshire Police, based in Sheffield. As an Occupational Health Advisor, you will be required to deliver a range of Occupational Health services to South Yorkshire Police.
This is a temporary ongoing role. The rate is 18.12 per hour. You would be working Monday - Friday, full time hours.
PLEASE NOTE DUE TO POLICE VETTING CRITERIA YOU MUST HAVE RESIDED WITHIN THE UK CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST 3 YEARS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION- UNFORTUNATELY ANYTHING LESS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Role Purpose:
The Temporary Occupational Health Advisor resides within the Wellbeing Team and is critical to the core function of the overall wellbeing service. The Temporary Occupational Health Advisor role is required to support the Occupational Health Unit with the delivery of management referrals across the force. Working remotely, the Temporary Occupational Health Advisor will ensure that individuals have access to or are signposted to the support that they need to encourage attendance at work, manage any associated risks, and provide managers with guidance that will support a sustainable workforce.
Required Skills:
* Passion for excellence and high standards of client care.
* Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship management skills.
* Excellent report writing skills.
* Proven ability to manage a challenging workload.
Education & Experience:
* Professionally qualified in Occupational Health Nursing (Degree or Diploma, postgraduate qualification).
* Case management experience.
* Knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing issues facing Policing.
* Thorough understanding and application of professional regulatory frameworks and their relevance to SYP occupational health services.
As the Occupational Health Advisor, you will be responsible for:
* Conduct telephone consultations and manage complex caseloads maintaining clinical objectivity and impartiality at all times in line with occupational health guidance.
* Provide appropriate and effective evidence-based occupational health advice to support employees and management across South Yorkshire Police.
* Provide a concise report to management indicating an employee's fitness to work and detailing any advisory reasonable adjustments with timeframes in line with audit criteria.
* Utilise a bio-psychosocial approach combined with functional assessment to address barriers to work and inform robust work recommendations.
* Obtain specialist reports where appropriate and liaise with the Physician, Physiotherapists, and Counsellors to provide robust occupational health reports that support an individual's rehabilitation back to work and utilise relevant organisational policies to support effective return to work plans.
If you have the skills for this role, please apply and one of our Recruitment Consultants will be in touch should your CV be shortlisted.
Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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