PT Occupational Health Advisor

What's involved with this role:

Interim PT Occupational Health Advisor
Job Ref: Lincolnshire BL 365363
Pay Rate: GBP25.96 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 15 Wednesday and Thursday
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: Nettleham, Lincoln

NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure.

The post holder will provide wider expertise in Occupational health service provision, including sickness/absence case management, health surveillance, fitness for task medicals, and employee health advice and health risk management. Candidates must have previous experience in the delivery of sickness/absence case management and previous experience of working within a blue light emergency services organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide independent, objective specialist sickness/absence/case management advice to line managers and HR, using relevant evidence-based clinical diagnostic tools.
• Refer employees into other Lincs Police occupational health services, liaise with appropriate treating clinical services, line management, and HR in the effective management of workplace presenting ill health.
• Maintain clinically relevant health records and reports, ensuring the information is adequate, relevant, up to date, and remains confidential within the appropriate hard or software systems employed.
• Participate / undertake health surveillance, fitness for task, new starter and wider employee health advice and risk management in the workplace both remotely and if directed face to face.
• The role may involve other employee-driven health services such as body fluid exposure assessment, travel health advice, pre and post-deployment screening and participation in support for major incident events.
• Participate in clinical supervision and clinical governance system activities relating to management of professional practice, employee risk, risk to self and other police colleagues.
• Maintain own professional portfolio, professional society registrations for practice and participate in appropriate evidence-based research and continuous professional development.
• Deliver some training input, increasing the overall awareness of health and the impact line managers may have, encouraging positive engagement.

Qualifications:

1. Degree or diploma in Occupational Health Practice.
2. Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and confirmed fitness to practice.

Skills & Experience:

1. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2. Theoretical and practical knowledge regarding anxiety disorders, depression, and trauma.
3. Previous experience of record keeping, creating, retrieving, and amending occupational health records and files.
4. Ability to plan and prioritise tasks, managing own workload effectively and using initiative.
5. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

Full UK driving license desirable.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please.