Senior Occupational Health Nurse Adviser

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

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.

About us

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Senior Occupational Health Nurse adviser role***

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC registered as Specialist Practitioner in Occupational Health with at least five years post registration experience

Desirable

• MSc in Occupational Health
• Counselling qualification
• NEBOSH certificate/ diploma

Knowledge and Awareness

Essential

• Excellent working knowledge and experience of Microsoft office and OH computer systems
• 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

• Working to Key performance indicators

Experience

Essential

• Experience of developing and implementing national guidance into occupational health policy
• Experience of gathering data and producing reports

Desirable

• Previous experience of occupational health and wellbeing in the NHS
• Experience of supervising and motivating staff

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills that can build rapport and good working relationships quickly
• Ability to manage personal emotions and stress when under pressure and provide empathy and support to others when they are in difficult situations
• Ability to develop trust and credibility rapidly to work professionally with all grades of staff inspiring confidence

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

St Helier Hospital

Wrythe Lane

Carshalton

SM5 1AA

Employer's website

https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk/work-for-us

£51,883 to £58,544 a year per annum incl. HCAS