Practice Nurse - Occupational Health and Wellbeing

Practice Nurse - Occupational Health and Wellbeing

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

As a member of the Occupational Health team, you will be required to provide an occupational health surveillance, screening, and immunisation service under the direction of the Occupational Health Advisor / Lead Nurse, having freedom to act within policies and practices of the service. You will provide a service of excellence, which is primarily responsible for meeting the needs of Trust employees, but also external contracts from both the private and public sector. You will apply limited specialist knowledge and skills to undertake a clinical service and other varied responsibilities of the post.

Main duties of the job

Working to best practice, carry out a comprehensive range of pre/post-employment health screening and associated health surveillance in order to respond positively to legislative requirements.

• To carry out Work Health Assessment screening and associated health surveillance in order to respond positively to legislative requirements.
• Provide professional Occupational Health Nursing care, by assessing the needs of individual clients, obtaining medical and occupational histories in a systematic manner and instigating suitable programmes of care/advice in conjunction with the Senior Occupational Health Nurse Adviser, or according to locally agreed protocols, as well as ensuring that clinical records are kept for all employee contacts as appropriate.
• To establish and maintain up-to-date vaccination programmes for all personnel who are at risk of exposure to pathogens during the course of their work; including contact tracing when deemed necessary, whilst maintaining an effective recall system using the Occupational Health database.
• To carry out eyesight testing in line with the Display Screen Equipment Regulations and make recommendations after consultation (where necessary) with the Senior Occupational Health Nurse Adviser.
• To advise employees following contaminated sharps injury or bodily fluid exposure, undertaking risk assessment and advising on the appropriate action in line with department protocols. To liaise with the OHP or Sexual health consultant if PEP is required.

About us

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient-centred, which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued, and value each other. To support this, our four values are that we are all: Caring - we design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants; Safe - we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first); Responsible - all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services, and reputation; and Value each other - we all value each other's contribution. Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday.'

DEPARTMENT PHILOSOPHY The Occupational Health department works as a multi-disciplinary team to provide a proactive service to all members of staff and covers all areas of the working environment, working to national guidelines and benchmarks to maintain the staff's well-being both physical and psychological.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse

Experience

• Experience of working independently
• Practical knowledge/experience of working within an Occupational Health Team
• Experience of vaccination programmes

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Understanding of quality assurance, research, and audit methods
• Knowledge of current professional issues
• Knowledge of current Occupational Health issues
• Skills in performing specific health surveillance relevant to OH

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

Associate Director of Learning and Wellbeing

£34,521 to £41,956 a year pa incl HCAS pro rata