Occupational Health Lead
Job Summary
Occupational Health Lead
Remote Working with occasional office days at Epsom & Barbican Permanent FullTime (PartTime Considered)
Competitive salary available depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Are you a Nuffield Health colleague with a clinical or healthcare background looking to broaden your experience and expand your professional portfolio
This is a great opportunity to step into a companywide role and make a meaningful contribution to how we support colleague health and wellbeing across Nuffield Health.
Were seeking an Occupational Health Lead to oversee the delivery governance and continuous improvement of Occupational Health (OH) services across the charity. This role offers excellent exposure across the organisation and is ideal for someone looking to develop their experience in service management governance and wellbeing alongside their existing clinical or healthcare knowledge.
The Role
Youll be responsible for the daytoday management and coordination of Occupational Health services acting as a knowledgeable internal point of contact and ensuring services are delivered in line with contractual regulatory and quality expectations.
The role involves managing relationships with thirdparty OH providers overseeing service delivery activity advising leaders and colleagues on Occupational Health processes and contributing to wider wellbeing and compliance activity across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Support Occupational Health clinical governance activity including assurance processes audit input policy compliance and appropriate incident escalation.
Manage the daytoday relationship with thirdparty OH providers monitoring performance reviewing activity data and supporting continuous service improvement.
Provide guidance and advice across the colleague lifecycle including preplacement screening fitness for work referrals routine health surveillance immunisation programmes and sickness absence case support.
Support wellbeing and compliance activity including DSE processes driver medicals mental health screening and workplace health campaigns.
Contribute to relevant organisational forums such as EAGs the Healthy Work Forum and the Quality Board sharing themes insight and emerging risks.
Develop and maintain clear organisational guidance and communications in response to emerging health issues changes in practice or regulatory requirements.
About You
Youll bring experience from a clinical healthcare wellbeing or related environment with an interest in Occupational Health practice governance and evidencebased approaches to employee health.
You dont need to be a specialist Occupational Health practitioner; however youll be comfortable working with healthrelated information interpreting data advising on risk and engaging confidently with a range of stakeholders to support good practice.
Qualifications
Degreelevel qualification or equivalent experience/learning
Clinical or healthcare professional background desirable but not essential (e.g. NMC SCPHN (OH) GMC Specialist Register with FOM membership)
Experience working with Occupational Health services health governance or wellbeing initiatives is an advantage
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here you can choose from a range of fitness lifestyle health and fitness wellbeing rewards such as free gym membership health assessments retail discounts and pension options.
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About Company
As the UK's largest healthcare charity, Nuffield Health exists to build a healthier nation through our hospitals, fitness & wellbeing clubs, healthcare clinics and workplace wellbeing services.