About this role
Job summary
The Senior Occupational Health Advisor / Lead Nurse provides professional, clinical and operational leadership within the nurse led Occupational Health Service, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, evidence-based and customer-focused service to employees and external clients.
The post holder will lead and support the Occupational Health nursing team, undertake fitness for work and complex case management assessments, provide expert advice to managers and staff, and contribute to the strategic development of occupational health, health and wellbeing, workforce sustainability and attendance management initiatives. As a Senior Occupational Health Advisor, you will demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise and professional autonomy.
The role is responsible for ensuring services are delivered in accordance with professional standards, current legislation, SEQOHS accreditation requirements, NMC Code, UK occupational health best practice, organisational policies and relevant national guidance.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Leadership
Occupational Health Service Delivery
Fitness for Work Assessments / Case Management
Health Surveillance
Immunisation and Infection Prevention
Health and Wellbeing
Governance, Quality and Compliance
Strategic and Professional Contribution
About us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
- Provide visible and advanced clinical leadership for the Occupational Health team.
- Act as an expert resource on occupational health matters for managers, HR professionals and employees.
- Support a culture of continuous quality improvement, evidence-based practice and professional accountability.
- Ensure clinical practice complies with NMC requirements, SEQOHS standards and organisational governance frameworks.
- Provide clinical supervision, mentorship and support to Occupational Health Advisors and Nurses.
- Lead on the review and development of clinical pathways, protocols and standard operating procedures.
Fitness for Work Assessments / Case Management
- Assess fitness for work and provide evidence-based recommendations to management.
- Manage complex occupational health cases.
- Attendance and sickness absence case management.
- Pre-employment and pre-placement health assessments.
- Health risk assessments.
- Ill-health capability and redeployment assessments.
- Support rehabilitation and sustainable return-to-work planning
- Escalate complex cases to Occupational Health Physician and other specialists as required.
Health Surveillance
Lead, manage and statutory and non-statutory programmes.
Immunisation and Infection Prevention
- Oversee vaccination programmes and participate where appropriate.
- Advise on occupational infectious disease risks.
- Support outbreak management and workforce infection prevention requirements.
- Receive, interpret and communicate specific, specialist information to clients eg. Blood borne virus, pathology results, specialist reports, fitness to work, policy requirements etc. for all workers, including EPP workers under monitoring.
- Provide management / oversight of sharps injuries and body fluid exposure incidents in line with SOP.
- Recognise and respond to medical emergencies, including anaphylaxis
- Prioritise urgent clinical situations effectively
- Liaison with Infection Prevention and other specialist services as required
Health and Wellbeing
- Support Trust initiatives that improve workforce health and wellbeing.
- Promote psychological wellbeing and workplace mental health initiatives.
- Support early intervention approaches to workforce health concerns.
- Governance, Quality and Compliance
- Contribute to the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of the Occupational Health service.
- Support achievement and maintenance of SEQOHS accreditation and standards.
- Contribute to the development and review of policies, procedures, and standards.
- Identify risks and take appropriate action to maintain a safe service.
- Participate in audits, risk assessments, service evaluations and quality improvement activities.
- Investigate incidents, complaints and clinical concerns as directed by Head of Service.
- Maintain legislative compliance.
- Ensure robust clinical record keeping and information governance standards.
- Manage and prioritise your workload effectively
- Contribute to service data collection and reporting
- Communicate clearly and professionally with staff, managers, and stakeholders.
- Maintain confidentiality and practise in accordance with the professional / NMC Code
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse
- Current Register of Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in Occupational Health or holds a Degree /Post Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health
- Significant post registration experience working in Occupational Health.
- Experience of nurse led practice
- Relevant and up to date post registration training and CPD.
Desirable
- NHS Occupational Health experience.
- Experience managing a clinical team.
- Leadership courses or relevant CPD.
- Experience supporting SEQOHS accreditation.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience managing complex management referrals and fitness for work advice.
- Experience of health surveillance programmes
- Experience delivering immunisation services.
- Experience of supervising or mentoring staff.
- Ability to demonstrate awareness of occupational Health legislation and best practice.
Desirable
- Service improvement and audit experience.
- External client occupational health service delivery.
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Advanced report writing and case management.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.
- Proficient use of Occupational Health management systems and Microsoft Office applications.
- Data analysis and performance reporting skills.
- High level of IT literacy
- Strong leadership capability.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Hampshire County Hospital
Romsey Road
Winchester
SO22 5DG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)