Occupational Health Specialist Nurse Advisor

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Caring for the health and wellbeing of our people is one of the key themes of our people strategy and a priority for the Trust. We are proud of the comprehensive, preventative and responsive health and wellbeing programme offered to staff which focuses on 6 pillars of wellbeing: personal, psychological, physical, work, spiritual and financial wellbeing.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Occupational Health Specialist Nurse Advisor to join the in-house Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Occupational Health service.

It is an exciting time to join our supportive, innovative, and flexible team who are working in partnership with multidisciplinary colleagues to grow and develop the service.

The post holders will support the coordination and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based Occupational Health to Trust employees and external clients, which will include promoting health and wellbeing and safeguarding; and improving the quality of working life to our NHS clients and any Non-NHS clients we may provide a service to in the future.

As an Occupational Health Specialist Nurse Advisor, you will provide specialist guidance and support to managers, staff and OH colleagues, in accordance with national legislation and local policies and procedure.

Previous experience in Occupational Health will be a key requirement for this role.

We are offering one full-time (37.5 hours per week) post and the other, part-time (30 hours per week).

Main duties of the job

To undertake clinical activities as directed by the OH Senior Specialist Nurse Lead, OH Consultant or their nominated deputy to include – vaccination clinics, health screening, case management, health surveillance work, environmental visits/risk assessments, attendance management, health promotion activities (and presentations), ergonomic assessments/training as required and become involved in corporate inductions or clinical projects as required.

To use the Occupational Health database for the entering of clinical activity, ensuring that information is updated in a timely and accurate manner, to include EPP and non-EPP clinical activity and daily immunisation activity.

To undertake an effective employment screening, sickness absence reviews, and case conferences. Providing advice on stress, anxiety, MSK, disability etc. in accordance with the Equality Act, the Trust’s Sickness Absence Policy and Promoting Equality and Valuing Diversity Policy.

To act as an autonomous practitioner and specialist advisory service to managers and external contract stakeholders, providing professional advice on Occupational Health and Wellbeing issues.

Undertake appropriate treatment, advice and follow-up on the management of body fluid exposures, including advisory counselling and information-giving, following exposure to blood borne viruses such as HIV, Hepatitis B Hepatitis C.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

Qualifications

• NMC Registration
• Occupational Health qualification (SCPHN preferred)
• RN – Adult branch
• Demonstrable clinical expertise in and commitment to the professional development of others
• Awareness and understanding of current health issues

Experience

• Significant experience in Occupational Health practice
• Nursing Standard setting, audit and use of evidence-based practice
• Sickness absence/return to work assessments
• Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills
• Vaccination/Immunisation clinics service working
• Problem solving skills, able to respond to unexpected issues and work independently, competently and confidently within set framework being accountable for own actions

• Previous experience working within the NHS or other health care organisation

Knowledge

• Microsoft word and power point
• Audit/ Quality issues
• Health and Safety legislation
• Current OH issues within the NHS

• Knowledge of NHS policy, both locally and nationally.

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.