Job overview
Senior Occupational Health Nurse Adviser
Band 7,
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Health (OH) Advisor to join our professional and supportive team.
The OH Department is undergoing an exciting period of expansion and provides OH and wellbeing services to our own Trust and selected corporate clients. We are looking for someone who is dynamic and represents all our Trust values to provide OH services to a key OH client.
To act as a Senior OH Nurse, providing a high quality, comprehensive Occupational Health service to a key NHS community Trust clients, in line with the contract agreement.
You will work peripatetically, delivering some services from the client’s key locations in Surrey, as well as working as part of the OH team at Epsom & St Helier’s Hospitals.
Although the primary responsibility will be the service for the community NHS Trust, you will also support the OH services delivered to Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust as required.
As an experienced OH nurse advisor, you will build relationships with key stakeholders and deliver and promote occupational health to the highest standards.
Main duties of the job
"At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values."
You will need to be an experienced OH Nurse, ideally with previous experience of working in a healthcare setting and be able to provide the full remit of services to include, case management, pre-workforce screening, vaccination and phlebotomy services. The post-holder will work to ensure timely, customer orientated service delivery.
You will also need to be an excellent team player and be very confident at building relationships and able to work at all levels of the organization.
The role will be based at St Helier Hospital but you will be required to travel on a regular basis to various client sites within Surrey and therefore a current driving license/car owner is essential.
With Proficient IT skills, you will have experience of managing your own clinical caseload. You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be self-motivated.
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey.
In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas.
Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Senior Occupational Health Nurse adviser role***
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. • NMC registered as Specialist Practitioner in Occupational Health with at least five years post registration experience
Desirable criteria
2. • MSc in Occupational Health
3. • Counselling qualification
4. • NEBOSH certificate/ diploma
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential criteria
5. • Excellent working knowledge and experience of Microsoft office and OH computer systems
6. • Ability to provide and receive highly complex or contentious information which requires motivational, negotiating, empathetic or reassurance skills and information may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive
Desirable criteria
7. Working to Key performance indicators
Experience
Essential criteria
8. • Experience of developing and implementing national guidance into occupational health policy
9. • Experience of gathering data and producing reports
Desirable criteria
10. • Previous experience of occupational health and wellbeing in the NHS
11. • Experience of supervising and motivating staff
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
12. • Excellent interpersonal skills that can build rapport and good working relationships quickly
13. • Ability to manage personal emotions and stress when under stress and pressure and provide empathy and support to others when under pressure when they are in difficult situations
14. • Ability to develop trust and credibility rapidly to work professionally with all grades of staff inspiring confidence
Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
______________________________________________________ Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at: Telephone: 02082963786 Text: 07501066267 Email: @. Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.______________________________________________________
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
NameIrene OwusuJob titleHead of Occupational HealthEmail addressTelephone number0208 296 2678