Senior Occupational Health Nurse Advisor

We are recruiting for a Senior Occupational Health Nurse Advisor who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will be undertaking high quality occupational health assessments and offering expert occupational health advice.

You will support colleagues within the team to develop their skills, knowledge, and confidence. Involvement in the review of procedures that enable improvements in quality, efficiency, and customer service and support the growth of occupational health and wellbeing services.

You will have involvement in training and development on health and wellbeing issues.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

• Use of specialist knowledge to undertake high quality occupational health assessments in face-to-face clinics, by video and telephone.
• To undertake assessments autonomously seeking support and guidance where appropriate in relation to complex issues.
• Maintain confidential, clear, accurate, electronic records of consultations in accordance with national and local guidelines and legislation.
• Safeguard confidentiality in accordance with legislation and guidelines.
• Provision of clear, impartial occupational health advice to managers and employees in written reports, on a telephone advice line and in case review meetings. Advice may include fitness for a new role, workplace adjustments, redeployment, approaches to prevent sickness absence, rehabilitation and return to work planning, suitable actions following a sharps incident or other workplace injury, health surveillance, reducing risk of injury or occupational disease, and suitability for ill health retirement.
• Plan and deliver training and coaching in promoting health and wellbeing, preventing, and reducing sickness absence.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Training

Essential

• Registered Adult Nurse, on part 1 of the NMC register
• Diploma/ Degree in Occupational Health.
• Evidence of Professional development

Desirable

• Teaching and Assessing Qualification
• Health & Safety training

Previous Experience

Essential

• Undertaking occupational health assessments and providing advice
• Clear accurate record keeping
• Supervising, supporting and leading others
• Training, coaching or developing others
• Promoting health and wellbeing
• Confident use of electronic record keeping, emails, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point and Teams

Desirable

• Delivering immunisations
• Use of Cority Software

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication
• Customer service
• Leadership
• Expert Occupational Health assessment and report writing
• Teaching, coaching and delivering presentations clearly and confidently
• Confident in electronic record keeping
• Ability to travel to clinics and external contracts work sites
• Ability to adapt to change & have a flexible approach

Desirable

• Health Surveillance
• Venepuncture

Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent understanding of a wide range of workplace health and wellbeing issues
• Specialist knowledge of potential workplace hazards, safe systems of work and health surveillance.
• Expert understanding of legislation and regulations relating to Occupational health
• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding income generation and service level agreements

Employer details

Employer name
Address
Hertford County Hospital
North Road
Hertford
SG14 1LP

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