Job summary
Oh Occupational Health and Wellbeing is the Occupational Health department for Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and other organisations including Royal Papworth Hospital (RPH). Supporting a workforce population of around 20,000 Oh aims to improve the health, safety and general wellbeing of all staff, striving to create a healthier working environment for all.
We offer a range of high-quality services including infection screening and immunisation, infectious outbreak contact tracing, fitness for work assessments, advice on sickness absence management, advice on stress management, assessment for long-term disability benefits or ill-health retirement, health surveillance, health promotion, training and education.
Where there is specific OH related training required for the role we will look to support and fund this for the successful candidate.
We are looking for a proactive and motivated individual to join oh and wellbeing to provide excellent professional support to our nursing team and to ensure a professional, safe, responsive and effective service to managers and staff using the Occupational Health service at CUH
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join our well-established Occupational Health service. You will provide clinical, professional and day to day advice and guidance to managers, staff and team members.
Main duties of the job
To work within a multidisciplinary team of Occupational Health professionals providing a high-quality needs based Occupational Health service to CUH and all contracted clients.
Responsible for the provision of specialist clinical services and to advise employees on the prevention of ill health and other aspects of work related health problems and infection screening
To regularly process and undertake pre-employment screening for individual clients. To contribute to achieving and sustaining KPI Targets for pre-employment screening
To take primary responsibility to ensure a timely and effective clearance process for some of Occupational Health's larger intake Groups.
The nature of the job may occasionally require the post holder to travel off site, often with equipment; so independent mobility throughout East Anglia is essential.
To be flexible and adaptable according to clinical need; working outside of normal contracted hours in the event of a serious outbreak or pandemic where the need arises
About us
Come Nurse with us...
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
Closing date is midnight on 19 November 2023
Interviews are due to be held on 28 November 2023
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
- Our values and reputation for outstanding care
- Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
- Career and development opportunities
- Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
- Research experience and opportunities
- Lovely location and quality of life
- Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
Closing date is midnight on 19 November 2023
Interviews are due to be held on 28 November 2023
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
- Our values and reputation for outstanding care
- Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
- Career and development opportunities
- Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
- Research experience and opportunities
- Lovely location and quality of life
- Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the Register
- Experience of infection screening or infection control.
- Portfolio of evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Certificate level teaching qualification
- Mentorship qualification
- Degree, diploma or module in public health, infectious or respiratory diseases or other healthcare specialty
Experience
Essential
- Proven delivery of evidence based clinical practice within OH environment or Proven delivery of evidence based clinical experience within an NHS environment
- Experience of clinical management in the absence of senior colleagues
- Experience of supervising and teaching junior colleagues
- Experience of utilising reflective practice
- Experience of MDT working and working alongside and with other departments
- Post registration experience within an busy clinical environment
Desirable
- Experience of Risk Assessment
- Wellbeing and Health Promotion experience
- Communicable disease, management and screening
- Experience of case and screening management
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge within the clinical environment.
- Working Knowledge of staff immunisation and screening
- Quality issues and detailed understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness and their application to Occupational Health
- An Understanding of Public health and common transmissible respiratory diseases.
- Knowledge of audit and clinical governance and its role in the improvement of services
Desirable
- Knowledge of risk management processes
- Knowledge of the professional nursing agenda
- Knowledge of Occupational Health in the NHS, and its role in providing services to business
- Knowledge of contact tracing and case load management
- Working knowledge of health and safety regulations
- Knowledge of triage and case management processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven skills in negotiation and the ability to read situations and respond accordingly
- Able to remain calm and work effectively in pressured situations
- Ability to communicate with and develop good working relationships with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, clients, and managers
- Able to work as part of a specialist OH team, accessing current specialist knowledge to provide evidence based clinical care
- Able to demonstrate practical application of health, safety and wellbeing in relation to own and client welfare
- Ability to effectively contact trace on routine and urgent screening, results, tests and exposures
- Able to motivate self and others to work collaboratively within a team
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload within predetermined timeframes
- Ability to be proactive, take initiative and liaise with senior staff and colleagues when required
- Able to identify problems and recommend and act upon solutions
- Able to give constructive feedback to others, providing supervision and guidance to colleagues
- Able to report effectively on a range of complex situations
- Work within clinical governance framework and OH strategy, Able to lead on the development of departmental standard operating procedures and clinical processes and contribute to the development of Trust policies and procedures.
- Able to participate in research, clinical audit and write departmental reports
- Willingness to adapt to change as the Department and Organisation develops
- Able to identify own learning needs
- Able to achieve competency in Department and Trust computer systems: Cority; word; outlook; excel; calendar; PowerPoint
- Able to work across multiple sites and use portable equipment
Desirable
- Explore and evaluate solutions to make clinical decisions and recommendations
- Able to demonstrate practical application of public health in relation to staff health
- Committed to the development of junior staff
- Documentation and presentation skills.
- Participation in the appraisal/PDP process.
- BLS trained.
- Committed to service and process improvement.
- Assess situations and identify the root cause of a problem
- Effective management of equipment and resources.
- Able to work within management referral triage process, including assessment, referral, and discharge competence not compulsory but desirable
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors, and colleagues according to the Trust values of kind, safe and excellent
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the Register
- Experience of infection screening or infection control.
- Portfolio of evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Certificate level teaching qualification
- Mentorship qualification
- Degree, diploma or module in public health, infectious or respiratory diseases or other healthcare specialty
Experience
Essential
- Proven delivery of evidence based clinical practice within OH environment or Proven delivery of evidence based clinical experience within an NHS environment
- Experience of clinical management in the absence of senior colleagues
- Experience of supervising and teaching junior colleagues
- Experience of utilising reflective practice
- Experience of MDT working and working alongside and with other departments
- Post registration experience within an busy clinical environment
Desirable
- Experience of Risk Assessment
- Wellbeing and Health Promotion experience
- Communicable disease, management and screening
- Experience of case and screening management
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge within the clinical environment.
- Working Knowledge of staff immunisation and screening
- Quality issues and detailed understanding of audit and clinical effectiveness and their application to Occupational Health
- An Understanding of Public health and common transmissible respiratory diseases.
- Knowledge of audit and clinical governance and its role in the improvement of services
Desirable
- Knowledge of risk management processes
- Knowledge of the professional nursing agenda
- Knowledge of Occupational Health in the NHS, and its role in providing services to business
- Knowledge of contact tracing and case load management
- Working knowledge of health and safety regulations
- Knowledge of triage and case management processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven skills in negotiation and the ability to read situations and respond accordingly
- Able to remain calm and work effectively in pressured situations
- Ability to communicate with and develop good working relationships with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, clients, and managers
- Able to work as part of a specialist OH team, accessing current specialist knowledge to provide evidence based clinical care
- Able to demonstrate practical application of health, safety and wellbeing in relation to own and client welfare
- Ability to effectively contact trace on routine and urgent screening, results, tests and exposures
- Able to motivate self and others to work collaboratively within a team
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload within predetermined timeframes
- Ability to be proactive, take initiative and liaise with senior staff and colleagues when required
- Able to identify problems and recommend and act upon solutions
- Able to give constructive feedback to others, providing supervision and guidance to colleagues
- Able to report effectively on a range of complex situations
- Work within clinical governance framework and OH strategy, Able to lead on the development of departmental standard operating procedures and clinical processes and contribute to the development of Trust policies and procedures.
- Able to participate in research, clinical audit and write departmental reports
- Willingness to adapt to change as the Department and Organisation develops
- Able to identify own learning needs
- Able to achieve competency in Department and Trust computer systems: Cority; word; outlook; excel; calendar; PowerPoint
- Able to work across multiple sites and use portable equipment
Desirable
- Explore and evaluate solutions to make clinical decisions and recommendations
- Able to demonstrate practical application of public health in relation to staff health
- Committed to the development of junior staff
- Documentation and presentation skills.
- Participation in the appraisal/PDP process.
- BLS trained.
- Committed to service and process improvement.
- Assess situations and identify the root cause of a problem
- Effective management of equipment and resources.
- Able to work within management referral triage process, including assessment, referral, and discharge competence not compulsory but desirable
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors, and colleagues according to the Trust values of kind, safe and excellent
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).