Occupational Health Advisor x2
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Temporary Occupational Health Advisor x2
Job Ref: S Yorkshire BL TCL 361977Pay Rate: £18.12 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: SHEFFIELD
NPPV Level 2
NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure.]
As an Occupational Health Advisor, you will be required to deliver a range of Occupational Health services to South Yorkshire Police,including attendance management, pre-placement assessments, fitness for work medicals, vaccinations, management of contamination incidents and other services as required.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, Occupational Health Advisors’ will ensure that individuals have access to or are signposted to the support that they need to encourage attendance at work, manage any associated risks and to provide managers with guidance that will support a sustainable workforce.
Key Responsibilities:
Conduct telephone consultations and manage complex caseloads maintaining clinical objectivity and impartiality at all times in line with occupational health guidance.Provide appropriate and effective evidence based occupational health advice to support employees and management across South Yorkshire Police.
Provide a concise report to management indicating an employee’s fitness to work and detailing any advisory reasonable adjustments with timeframes in line with audit criteria.
Utilise a biopsychosocial approach combined with functional assessment to address barriers to work and inform robust work recommendations.
Obtain specialist reports where appropriate to do so and liaise with the Physician, Physiotherapists and Counsellors in order to provide robust occupational health reports that support an individual’s rehabilitation back to work and utilise relevant organisational policies to support effective return to work plans.·Deliver pre-employment and mandatory medicals advising on fitness for work, providing details of workplace adjustments for managers to consider and ensuring medicals are undertaken within agreed timescales to maintain frontline operational policing.
Interpret legislation and contribute to policies, standards and procedures to meet South Yorkshire Police requirements for occupational health provision.Deliver occupational health services, which comply with confidentiality and codes of professional practice.
Participate in the process for permanency, ill health retirement, pension process for police officers and staff as required.
Understanding of health surveillance programmes and requirement for fitness medicals
Demonstrate good understanding and practical application of relevant health and safety regulations and know when to escalate cases of concern.
Qualifications:
Professionally qualified in Occupational Health Nursing (Degree or Diploma, postgraduate qualification) – along with significant understanding and practical experience in the health sector.
Knowledge:
Knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing issues facing Policing.Thorough understanding and application of professional regulatory frameworks and their relevance to SYP occupational health services.
Experience:
Case management experience.
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent communication, influencing and relationship management skills.Excellent report writing skills.
Proven ability to manage a challenging workload.
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Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms.We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: S Yorkshire BL TCL 361977
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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