Senior Occupational Health Nurse Adviser

Job summary

Senior Occupational Health Nurse Adviser

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Health (OH) Advisor to join our professional and supportive team.

The OH Department is undergoing an exciting period of expansion and provides OH and wellbeing services to our own Trust and selected corporate clients. We are looking for someone who is dynamic and represents all our Trust values to provide OH services to a key OH client.

To act as a Senior OH Nurse, providing a high quality, comprehensive Occupational Health service to a key NHS community Trust clients, in line with the contract agreement.

You will work peripatetically, delivering some services from the client's key locations in Surrey, as well as working as part of the OH team at Epsom & St Helier's Hospitals.

Although the primary responsibility will be the service for the community NHS Trust, you will also support the OH services delivered to Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust as required.

As an experienced OH nurse advisor, you will build relationships with key stakeholders and deliver and promote occupational health to the highest standards.

Main duties of the job

"At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values."

You will need to be an experienced OH Nurse, ideally with previous experience of working in a healthcare setting and be able to provide the full remit of services to include, case management, pre-workforce screening, vaccination and phlebotomy services. The post-holder will work to ensure timely, customer orientated service delivery.

You will also need to be an excellent team player and be very confident at building relationships and able to work at all levels of the organization.

The role will be based at St Helier Hospital but you will be required to travel on a regular basis to various client sites within Surrey and therefore a current driving license/car owner is essential.

With Proficient IT skills, you will have experience of managing your own clinical caseload. You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be self-motivated.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey.

In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas.

Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.