Senior Occupational Health Advisor | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2026 |
| Location: | Headington, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7880041/321-CORP-7880041-B7 |
Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Occupational Health Advisor to join the Centre of Occupational Health & Wellbeing. The post holder will work as a Senior Nurse Advisor with a broad range of Occupational Health experience, delivering client‑focused programmes of care that meet the complex and changing health and wellbeing needs of the workforce.
The role involves managing a clinical caseload, providing expert occupational health advice, and supporting staff to remain in or return to work safely. The post holder will also support with the day‑to‑day operational running of the service. providing clinical leadership and contributing to service delivery, quality improvement and governance.
• Deliver high‑quality, client‑focused Occupational Health programmes of care, responding to the complex and changing health and wellbeing needs of the workforce.
• Manage a specialist clinical caseload, including case management, health assessments, statutory health surveillance, immunisation and advisory work.
• Provide expert, evidence‑based Occupational Health advice to employees, managers and HR, supporting safe return‑to‑work and stay‑at‑work decisions.
• Work autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team, exercising advanced clinical judgement.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to junior staff, acting as a role model for best practice.
Contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit, governance and SEQOHS compliance.
• Build effective working relationships across the Trust and with external stakeholders to support organisational objectives.
• Support the day‑to‑day operational running of the Occupational Health service.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
The Senior Occupational Health Advisor provides specialist, evidence‑based Occupational Health and Wellbeing services, delivering advanced clinical practice, leadership, education and service improvement in line with national standards, including SEQOHS accreditation requirements. The post holder works autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team to support employee health, organisational priorities and safe systems of work.
Please refer to the Job Description for full duties and responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 12 May 2026
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