Occupational Health Advisor

Overview and Responsibilities

Occupational Health Advisor

Location: Home based (with one day per month in central office). Some travel to Aurora Services will also be required.

Actual Annual Salary: £23,849.28 - £28,304.64 dependent upon relevant experience (FTE salary £39,748.80 - £47,174.40)

Hours: 24 hrs per week (flexible on hours per day/number of days per week)

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is one of the largest providers of SEND educational and care services in the country, supporting over 1,200 children, young people and adults, and employing over 1,500 staff spread across 27 services around England.

We’re currently looking for a part-time Occupational Health Advisor to work within the HR team, to support the promotion of workplace health and wellbeing and positive attendance at work throughout the employee lifecycle including pre-employment, balancing the needs and challenges of the business with appropriate and reasonable support of individuals.

The Role:

• Review and advise on all pre-employment health questionnaires, liaising with the Onboarding Team, Service Leadership, and HR Business Partners to support the process of health risk assessments and decision-making on candidate fitness/suitability for the role. Where necessary, support risk assessment meetings including the candidate.
• Develop and manage a Preferred Supplier List for occupational health expert providers, ensuring all supplier requirements have been adhered to, providing effective and timely support for managing a range of health issues covering positive attendance and management of short and long-term absence.
• Undertake non-specialist Occupational Health Assessments where appropriate and complete relevant referral paperwork for occupational health expert supplier referrals.
• Support follow-up actions based on occupational health reports.
• Work closely with the Employee Relations Team and HR Business Partners in managing absence and promoting positive attendance.
• Support the process of reasonable adjustments, including management of Access to Work and other suppliers of equipment.
• Support processes where required adjustments cannot be met by the business, which may include capability management.
• Research and provide costed proposals for positive health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.

Please note that duties will vary, and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of the team when required.

Skills and Qualifications

Experience:

Successful candidates need to demonstrate:

• Relevant qualification and experience in nursing with Occupational Health specialism.
• Ability to provide a balanced role that supports the business while addressing the needs of individual employees.
• Previous experience or the ability to develop a deep understanding of working within a SEN environment.
• Excellent written skills.
• Strong and persuasive verbal communication skills.
• Ability to analyze situations, information, and data.
• Open-mindedness and flexibility to change.
• Proactiveness and the ability to work independently while effectively working within a team.
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision.

While the role is home-based, candidates will need the ability to travel regularly to our Central office in Twigworth, Gloucester (once a month), as well as being able to attend our services as needed to support Occupational Health processes. While driving is not essential and travel can be expensed for public transport, please bear in mind our services are countrywide and some are in semi-rural locations.

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Enhanced Pension scheme
• Enhanced annual leave
• Perkbox - offering retail and other discounts, access to car lease scheme, and bike to work scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio, and many more.

How to apply:

To apply, please complete our online application form. For more information, please contact Liz at liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.