Job Description

Finegreen are currently assisting with the appointment of a senior level Occupational Health (OH) and Wellbeing professional, who will have previous experience within NHS organisations at Head of level to undertake a service review of the current OH/Wellbeing provision both internally and from a contract /income generating external client basis.

You will have worked within a managerial post within healthcare, ideally undertook service improvement/change projects with positive outcomes to both staffing within departments and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage and develop the Occupational Health Department ensuring delivery of a high quality service ensuring effective use of resources and adherence to internal and external service level agreements;

Ensure that the Trust follows, develops and maintains legislation, guidance, policy and the required external and internal quality standards for the Occupational Health Service;

Identify opportunities for new business, producing tender documentation and ensuring the service operates on a commercial basis;

Lead on the development of Occupational Health clinical policies, clinical guidelines, standard operating procedures and service and nursing standards that follow evidence based practice, national guidelines and current legislation;

Ensure that clinical standards are recognised, updated, implemented and monitored and that clinical governance in the department is robust, recorded, monitored and audited;

Ensure management information is provided both internally and externally on the Occupational Health Service, including feedback on service provision to enable improvements/adjustments to the service;

SME in occupational health advising on all aspects of occupational health and wellbeing;

Communicate on complex, sensitive and routine issues at all levels of the organisations on a daily basis, both internally and externally for which the Occupational Health department provides a service;

Develop positive working relationships with external stakeholders and business clients;

Person Specification:

Registered General Nurse/Specialist Occupational Health Practitioner (SCPHN or equivalent);

An understanding of current Occupational Health issues within the NHS;

Excellent communication skills, with an ability to undertake service improvement/change management projects;

Knowledge of business contracts and service level agreements.

Experience of developing and implementing new policies.

If you are interested in the role, please contact Donna Larder on (phone number removed) or send your CV to (url removed)