Description
Occupational Health Adviser (Full-Time)
Location: Warrington, including travel
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: £35,000 - £48,000 depending on experience
Job Description
You will work collaboratively with the whole clinic team to meet the needs of clients, supporting the delivery of the full Occupational Health remit. Responsible for case management assessments, health surveillance, vaccinations, drug and alcohol screening, DSE assessments, workplace health assessments, delivering wellbeing clinics, medical stock management and implementing and reviewing policies and procedures. You will travel to client sites, transporting and operating the Mobile Medical Unit (MMU), which is fully equipped for medical assessments. Travel is a key aspect of this role. Your responsibilities will include:
- Travelling between client sites in the company surveillance van (paid travel time – included in your working hours)
- Make professionally autonomous decisions for which you will be accountable
- Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised client care
- Make appropriate referrals
- Help the clinic to develop
- Competent in anaphylaxis and resuscitation.
- Ensuring safe storage, rotation and disposals of vaccines and drugs and that adequate stock levels are maintained
- Promote health and wellbeing, giving general education advice on diet and lifestyle
- Initiate and carry out programmes of health screening as agreed with the clinical team
- Enable, support and encourage individuals and groups to address issues which affect their health and social well-being
- Contribute to the clinic achieving its KPI’s and contracts obligations
- Ensure all data protection requirements are met when gathering, recording and storing patient data
- Liaise and maintain good working relationships with all members of the clinic team.
- Work within the multi-disciplinary team within the clinic and the whole company
- Act as mentor for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards
- Attend and contribute to relevant internal and external meetings as required, including clinic team meetings and company meetings
- Keep up to date with pertinent health policy and work with the clinic team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation
- Work collaboratively with colleagues both internally and externally
- Participate in management meetings, taking on responsibilities and reporting back as required.
Person Specification
- Must be a registered nurse on the NMC register
- Minimum 2 years Occupational Health experience
- Clinical skills - spirometry, audiometry, HAVS, phlebotomy, administration of vaccines according to the Green Book
- Full, clean, UK driving license (or valid EU license for the UK), ideally with category C1
- Willingness to travel to different client sites
- Willingness to learn and acquire new skills
- Evidence of appropriate knowledge base
- Experience in implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work unsupervised
Conduct Rules
- Act with integrity
- Exercise due care, skill and diligence
- Be open and cooperative with the FCA, PRA and other regulators
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- Observe proper standards of market conduct
Information Security
Maintain awareness of regulations in relation to the handling of data, personal or business related, in compliance with current legislation and guidelines including, but not limited to, GDPR, FCA, SRA and ISO 27001
Benefits
- Discounted gym membership
- Free eye test
- Flu jab vouchers
- Company pension
- Computing scheme
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Life assurance
- Staff referral scheme
- 22 days AL + bank holidays