Locum Consultant Occupational Health Physician

Job summary

At University Hospitals Birmingham our teams are committed to building better healthier lives. For us, this starts with our Colleagues. Our progressive Occupational Health and Wellbeing Team is at the forefront of this commitment and aspires to provide the very best for our people.

We have a workforce of 24,000 colleagues across our four main hospital locations; Good Hope, Solihull, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Birmingham Heartlands and our community teams, who collectively deliver the very best care to 1.8 million residents across Birmingham and Solihull. Our workforce community is rich in its diversity, and we attract colleagues from all over the world. We are proud of its association with University of Birmingham and the Armed forces - providing honouree and trainee contracts to colleagues across the Trust.

Our Occupational Health department has had a rapid expansion in its scope and team strength with some excellent new appointments recently including the Director of Occupational Health and Wellbeing. We now wish to build up on this with further expansion of the team through an opportunity to recruit a Locum Occupational Health Physician (OHP) as we continue to work towards becoming a Centre of Excellence for Occupational Health regionally and nationally.

Main duties of the job

This is a great opportunity for an aspiring and talented OHP to work who will be supported by an experienced team comprised of an OH Service Manager, Lead Nurse, three Occupational Physicians, Psychiatrist, an in-house counselling team and forty plus departmental colleagues you will encourage, promote and deliver against the OH and wellbeing strategy, whilst ensuring physical and psychologically safe working environments for all.

Professionally you will work to support strategic plans for a progressive and responsive service across the Trust. Our priority continues to be a focused, safe, efficient and effective service.

It takes an exceptional leader to engage and inspire staff to ensure that the very best practices are introduced and implemented. Your experience in complex Occupational health cases, along with your clinical skills and understanding of Clinical Governance and Quality will support you greatly in your role of Locum OH Consultant.

You together with our colleagues will be the beacons for our next generation of Doctors looking to qualify in OH. You will be approachable, responsive, and encouraging of colleagues who seek your counsel and act as required.

For this post we are able to full time hours (10 PAs). We are happy to discuss alternative working hours and support a wide range of flexible working options that best supports you and the team.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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