Senior Occupational Health Nurse Advisor

Job summary

As part of NHS's England's Growing Occupational Health Vision, our occupational health service is undergoing a period of significant change focused on improving the health and wellbeing of our staff. We are developing our established team and have a number of exciting opportunities within the occupational health department, so now is a fantastic time to join us.

The post holder will work as an essential member of the occupational health and wellbeing team and support in delivering an effective, efficient, responsive and high-quality service. Although the job base is Skidby House this role does allow flexible hours and working arrangements including home based working options and hybrid options.

To help us achieve our aims, we are looking for a highly motivated, well organised individual who is able to communicate across a wide group of individuals. We are seeking to recruit a qualified, experienced, highly motivated, and enthusiastic occupational health advisor.

You will be involved in all aspects of the service, providing a high level comprehensive Occupational Health Service to Trust staff, facilitating employee wellbeing through health screening, health assessment and health promotion, working as part of a cohesive occupational health team within a very busy environment.

The ideal candidate will be highly confident, have excellent communication skills, proficient IT skills and a flexible pro-active approach to be able to manage a varied and demanding workload.

Main duties of the job

Working alongside our multidisciplinary team, maintaining your professional specialist nursing skills you will work autonomously providing all aspects of specialist OH services delivering care with compassion.

A significant part of this varied and dynamic role will be to lead and support the development of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide and maintain a competent workforce that is responsive to our new ways of working.

Our MDT currently comprises a range of health professions: Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Clinical Psychology, OH Medical Practitioner, supported by our excellent Administrative Team.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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