Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 6 registered nurse to join the progressive Occupational Health and Wellbeing team onsite in the CUH oh and wellbeing building.
Every aspect of Occupational Health delivered through our service aims to provide the highest quality of care for CUH staff, other NHS organisations and external companies that the wider oh multi-disciplinary team support.
CUH invests in its workforce's health &wellbeing , through occupational health service such as; pre-employment staff screening, flu and covid vaccination, risk assessment, as well as mental health and wellbeing support.
This job role is suited for a registered nurse who has a keen interest in Occupational Health, or is seeking to learn new skills, to join an established and SEQOHS accredited OH team.
You will have a positive attitude towards the health and wellbeing of those attending, or contacting Occupational Health for support and advice.
You need to be confident leading the team, working both autonomously and as part of the wider team and will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills, liaising with staff, managers, other departments across RPH, CUH and other stakeholders on the biomedical campus.
Working within a team of Occupational Health professionals providing a high quality needs based Occupational Health service to all contracted clients NHS and non NHS.
Main duties of the job
The role is predominantly based in the CUH oh & wellbeing building on the biomedical campus, and you may be required on occasion to work offsite so independent mobility throughout East Anglia is desirable.
To work within a multidisciplinary team of Occupational Health professionals providing a high-quality needs based Occupational Health service to CUH and all contracted clients.
Responsible for the provision of specialist clinical services and to advise employees on the prevention of ill health and other aspects of work - related health problems
To be flexible and adaptable according to clinical need; working outside of normal contracted hours in the event of a serious outbreak or pandemic where the need arises
Independent mobility throughout East Anglia is desirable
About us
Come Nurse with us...
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Closing date is midnight on 1 May 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 15 May 2024
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
- Our values and reputation for outstanding care
- Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
- Career and development opportunities
- Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
- Research experience and opportunities
- Lovely location and quality of life
- Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Closing date is midnight on 1 May 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 15 May 2024
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
- Our values and reputation for outstanding care
- Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
- Career and development opportunities
- Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
- Research experience and opportunities
- Lovely location and quality of life
- Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the Register
- Portfolio of evidence of continuing professional development relevant to nursing and role
- Degree, diploma or module in OH or relevant healthcare specialty
Desirable
- Degree, diploma or module in public health, infectious or respiratory diseases or other healthcare specialty
- SCPHN - OH
- Certificate level teaching qualification
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Proven delivery of evidence based clinical practice within OH environment or Proven delivery of evidence based clinical experience within an NHS environment
- Experience of case and screening management (relevant to OH/Current role)
- Experience of clinical management in the absence of senior colleagues
- Experience of supervising and teaching junior colleagues
- Experience of utilising reflective practice
- Experience of MDT working and working alongside and with other departments
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking self or management referrals
- Experience of Risk Assessment (individual)
- Wellbeing and Health Promotion experience
- Communicable disease, management and screening
- Post registration experience of at least 18 months within an busy clinical environment
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge within the clinical environment.
- Working Knowledge of staff immunisation and screening
- Quality issues and detailed understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness and their application to Occupational Health and the improvement of services
- Knowledge of triage and case management processes
- An understanding of Public health and common transmissible respiratory diseases.
- Infection control in a healthcare setting
- Knowledge of the Equality Act
Desirable
- Knowledge of risk management processes (health and safety and individual)
- Knowledge of the professional nursing agenda
- Knowledge of Occupational Health in the NHS, and its role in providing services to business
- Knowledge of contact tracing and case load management
- Knowledge of GDPR, consent and confidentiality
- Working knowledge of health and safety regulations
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven skills in negotiation and the ability to read situations and respond accordingly
- Able to remain calm and work effectively in pressured situations
- Ability to communicate with and develop good working relationships with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, clients, and managers
- Able to work as part of a specialist OH team, accessing current specialist knowledge to provide evidence based clinical care
- Able to demonstrate practical application of health, safety and wellbeing in relation to own and client welfare
- Able to work within management referral triage process, including assessment, referral, and discharge competence
- Ability to effectively contact trace on routine and urgent screening, results, tests and exposures
- Able to motivate self and others to work collaboratively within a team
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload within predetermined timeframes
- Ability to be proactive, take initiative and liaise with senior staff and colleagues when required
- Able to identify problems and recommend and act upon solutions
- Able to give constructive feedback to others, providing supervision and guidance to colleagues
- Able to report effectively on a range of complex situations
- Work within clinical governance framework and OH strategy, able to lead on the development of departmental standard operating procedures and clinical processes and contribute to the development of Trust policies and procedures.
- Able to participate in research, clinical audit and write departmental reports
- Willingness to adapt to change as the Department and Organisation develops
- Able to identify own learning needs
- Able to achieve competency in Department and Trust computer systems: Cority; word; outlook; excel; calendar; PowerPoint
Desirable
- Explore and evaluate solutions to make clinical decisions and recommendations
- Able to demonstrate practical application of public health in relation to staff health
- Committed to the development of junior staff
- Documentation and presentation skills.
- Participation in the appraisal/PDP process.
- BLS trained.
- Committed to service and process improvement.
- Assess situations and identify the root cause of a problem
- Effective management of equipment and resources.
- Able to work across multiple sites and use portable equipment (on occasion)
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the Register
- Portfolio of evidence of continuing professional development relevant to nursing and role
- Degree, diploma or module in OH or relevant healthcare specialty
Desirable
- Degree, diploma or module in public health, infectious or respiratory diseases or other healthcare specialty
- SCPHN - OH
- Certificate level teaching qualification
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Proven delivery of evidence based clinical practice within OH environment or Proven delivery of evidence based clinical experience within an NHS environment
- Experience of case and screening management (relevant to OH/Current role)
- Experience of clinical management in the absence of senior colleagues
- Experience of supervising and teaching junior colleagues
- Experience of utilising reflective practice
- Experience of MDT working and working alongside and with other departments
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking self or management referrals
- Experience of Risk Assessment (individual)
- Wellbeing and Health Promotion experience
- Communicable disease, management and screening
- Post registration experience of at least 18 months within an busy clinical environment
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge within the clinical environment.
- Working Knowledge of staff immunisation and screening
- Quality issues and detailed understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness and their application to Occupational Health and the improvement of services
- Knowledge of triage and case management processes
- An understanding of Public health and common transmissible respiratory diseases.
- Infection control in a healthcare setting
- Knowledge of the Equality Act
Desirable
- Knowledge of risk management processes (health and safety and individual)
- Knowledge of the professional nursing agenda
- Knowledge of Occupational Health in the NHS, and its role in providing services to business
- Knowledge of contact tracing and case load management
- Knowledge of GDPR, consent and confidentiality
- Working knowledge of health and safety regulations
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven skills in negotiation and the ability to read situations and respond accordingly
- Able to remain calm and work effectively in pressured situations
- Ability to communicate with and develop good working relationships with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, clients, and managers
- Able to work as part of a specialist OH team, accessing current specialist knowledge to provide evidence based clinical care
- Able to demonstrate practical application of health, safety and wellbeing in relation to own and client welfare
- Able to work within management referral triage process, including assessment, referral, and discharge competence
- Ability to effectively contact trace on routine and urgent screening, results, tests and exposures
- Able to motivate self and others to work collaboratively within a team
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload within predetermined timeframes
- Ability to be proactive, take initiative and liaise with senior staff and colleagues when required
- Able to identify problems and recommend and act upon solutions
- Able to give constructive feedback to others, providing supervision and guidance to colleagues
- Able to report effectively on a range of complex situations
- Work within clinical governance framework and OH strategy, able to lead on the development of departmental standard operating procedures and clinical processes and contribute to the development of Trust policies and procedures.
- Able to participate in research, clinical audit and write departmental reports
- Willingness to adapt to change as the Department and Organisation develops
- Able to identify own learning needs
- Able to achieve competency in Department and Trust computer systems: Cority; word; outlook; excel; calendar; PowerPoint
Desirable
- Explore and evaluate solutions to make clinical decisions and recommendations
- Able to demonstrate practical application of public health in relation to staff health
- Committed to the development of junior staff
- Documentation and presentation skills.
- Participation in the appraisal/PDP process.
- BLS trained.
- Committed to service and process improvement.
- Assess situations and identify the root cause of a problem
- Effective management of equipment and resources.
- Able to work across multiple sites and use portable equipment (on occasion)
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
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.
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).
Additional information
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).