Occupational Health Nurse Advisor

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

A unique opportunity has arisen to work with the newly launched North West London Occupational Health Shared Service (NWL OH SS) delivering Occupational Health to staff across NWL and beyond then come and join us.
We are looking to recruit a dynamic and forward-thinking band 7 Nursing Advisor for the NWL Occupational Health Shared Service.
You will be joining a vibrant team, which is nurse led, dynamic and friendly.
Are you a: Band 7 OH Nurse contemplating a new challenge in a progressive service.
If you have answered ‘YES’ to the above, then this is the role for you.
We are delivering a hub and spoke service that works across North West London from Westminster to Milton Keynes and service beyond. Our hub is based in North Westminster.
There will be opportunities for bespoke OH training and for personal development and career progression.
We are a team that is welcoming, caring and very supportive.
We work with specialities from acute, Mental Health and community services so you will get a broad range of experience.
We offer flexible working with lots of opportunity to progress your career.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The successful candidate will undertake a comprehensive range of occupational health activities and have responsibility for the:
Assessment of employee fitness to work
Protection of employee health at work
Promotion of employee health at work
Support of individuals with disabilities in both gaining and sustaining employment
Work will be mainly unsupervised, and the post holder is accountable for his or her own professional actions.
Development of a sound knowledge of the terms and conditions of contracts to which he/she may be allocated is essential as is the establishment of strong working relations with the authorised officers of the customer.
To work with the customer to plan the implementation of service delivery in line with established occupational health procedures, providing specialised advice both on an individual basis, and for client groups. The post holder will take responsibility for the continued development and improvement of standards and efficiency of the service in agreement with the OH customer(s) he/she is assigned to and the OH service manager.
Contribute to the on-going development of the Occupational Health Service through team meetings, working groups, research and Quality Improvement projects and client / customer surveys and project work.
We will support you with the above, we will offer a robust induction and bespoke OH training for new Occupational Health Nurses . As an employer, we offer various training opportunities, so that the team continues to learn and develop their practices and support their clients and each other.
We are committed to offering you an environment to flourish which includes dedicated development opportunities as well as a healthier work life.
Flexible shift working, to provide a healthy work-life balance.
Commitment from the team to develop you by offering coaching and in-house development sessions such as Preceptorship Workshop, Leadership programmes, ACP modules and CBT-P training.
Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself.
Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust.
On-site shadowing opportunities.
An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients.
Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando’s and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
Award-winning Staff Networks
Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies
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