Senior Occupational Health Advisor - Slough - ref. h50538215

Job overview

As part of the Trust’s approach to staff health and wellbeing, we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Occupational Health Advisor Nurse to work in the Occupational Health Department at Wexham Park Hospital within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

The Occupational Health service for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust operates on two sites, (Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital) and we now have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Occupational Health Advisor to join the existing clinical team based on our Slough Hospital site, however, some occasional travel across sites may be required.

To apply for the post you must hold a specialist qualification in Occupational Health to degree level, ideally on part 3 of the NMC register and have at least significant experience within Occupational health ideally within the NHS

The Department provides a service to the staff of Frimley Health NHS Trust, community partners and acute health care.

Main duties of the job

You will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be highly motivated and have the ability to work independently and to supervise and mentor junior members of the team.

The post offers diversity and an opportunity to gain Occupational Health management experience within the department.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

job history

• Significant experience practising as Occupational health Advisor

job history

• Qualification in Occupational health

Qualifications

• NMC Registered
• OH Degree/Diploma
• previous NHS Experience

• Registered SCPHN

Skills and Knowledge

• Awareness of OH and H&S Legislation /Directives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• IT literature/ working knowledge of Microsoft 365

• Ability to manage Independent case load

Experience

• Phlebotomy proficient
• Experience in administering vaccinations as per schedule
• Understands UKAP Requirements for EPP workers
• Report writing following management referrals
• Experience in work health assessments both pre/during employment

• Previous NHS occupational health experience

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.