Occupational Health Advisor
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £45,000 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | BB9 6SH |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | William Jackson Food Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | WJFRP82102-15332 |
Summary
About the role
This is a fantastic opportunity for a self-motivated and organised Occupational Health Advisor with excellent communication skills to join the People team. Reporting to the HR Business Partner, you will be responsible for planning, developing and delivering the Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service to the business, to improve attendance and offer improved wellbeing for colleagues, ensuring full compliance to Health and Safety regulations. Please note that this is a part-time role (expected to be 25.5 huors per week but open to discussion regarding working hours).
Please note that the Occupational Health Advisor will be required to maintain a presence across all sites and shift patterns.
What you will do:
• Provide professional and timely advice to managers, the People team and the Health and Safety team to assist their management of absence and ill-health and to increase productivity and reduce sickness absence.
• Deliver expert case management services, producing professional, comprehensive evidence-based reports concerning sickness absence, fitness for work, and other OH-related advice.
• Produce an update report on all cases as determined by the agreed KPI specification.
• Conduct workplace assessments and implement and workplace adjustments where required.
• Implement and coordinate role-appropriate risk-based employee health surveillance screenings, vaccination, and health surveillance programmes in accordance with health and safety legislation.
• Assess the outcomes of medicals and health surveillance, ensuring accurate fitness advice is given and escalating when clinically necessary.
• Carry out pre-employment health screening to ensure fitness for work, adhering to best practice standards, policies and protocols.
• Advise managers regarding reasonable adjustments for new starters as appropriate.
• Coordinate and implement health promotion initiatives across all sites.
What you will need:
• Qualified or Registered Nurse with a valid NMC PIN
• Formal Occupational Health Qualification Level 6 Diploma / Degree with proven experience in Occupational Health
• Comfortable with Word and basic Excel and Powerpoint
• Awareness of relevant Health & Safety & Employment legislation and able to practically apply this within Occupational Health i.e health surveillance requirements, Equality act etc.
• Ability to establish and maintain sound working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Good organisation with ability to work flexibly to achieve required presence across all sites and shift patterns.
Thanks for reading our job advert. We do our very best to bring to life what it’s like working as part of our team. Diverse teams really are the best teams. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. All colleagues are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.
We also know that sometimes some candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they think they can tick every box. If you are really excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… go on… why not give it a whirl? Good luck!