Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Occupational Health Advisor Clinical Lead to join our Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service on a 12 month fixed-term contract. This specialist role provides advanced clinical leadership within a predominantly nurse led-led service, supporting over 4,000 employees across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical leadership and expert guidance to the Occupational Health nursing team, supporting complex case management, clinical decisionmaking, and mentorship.
Support with the design, delivery, and quality assurance of safe, effective occupational health services, aligned with best practice and legislation.
Manage a personal caseload and undertake advanced clinical assessments, including fitness-for-role evaluations and health surveillance.
Use data and clinical audit to support service improvement and promote excellent clinical governance.
Collaborate with HR, managers, unions, and key stakeholders to ensure highquality employee health outcomes and consistent policy application.
Champion the organisations values One Team, Customer Focused, Inclusive, Ambitious and Accountable in all aspects of service delivery.
About us
Sandwell is situated at the very heart of the West Midlands,
just a stones throw from Birmingham. A large, diverse, metropolitan borough,
Sandwell offers exciting opportunities for all in a friendly, supportive
environment. Sandwell is made up of six towns - Oldbury, Rowley Regis,
Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury and West Bromwich. The borough has 1,200 hectares
of parks, playing fields and local green space and more than 30 miles of
canals.
We offer something for everyone, with an incredibly wide
range of career opportunities, at any stage of your career, from apprentices to
senior managers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Occupational Health Advisor, you will play a key role in delivering a high-quality, evidence-based occupational health nursing service for over 4,000 employees. Your impact spans proactive and responsive support, including sickness absence management, fitness-for-role assessments, health surveillance, and organisation-wide health promotion. Working within a nurse-led service, you will also help shape and develop the councils approach to employee health and wellbeing through your professional expertise and innovative ideas.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Occupational Health Advisor, you will play a key role in delivering a high-quality, evidence-based occupational health nursing service for over 4,000 employees. Your impact spans proactive and responsive support, including sickness absence management, fitness-for-role assessments, health surveillance, and organisation-wide health promotion. Working within a nurse-led service, you will also help shape and develop the councils approach to employee health and wellbeing through your professional expertise and innovative ideas.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist Practitioner in Occupational health to certificate, diploma or degree level or working towards this or demonstration of
- equivalent knowledge and skill
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working as an Occupational Health Nurse Advisor in a nurse-led OH service.
- Experience managing a clinical caseload with complex, sensitive, or
- high-risk cases.
- Experience delivering OH assessments including pre-employment, fitness for work, health surveillance and sickness absence
- management
- Experience providing supervision, clinical guidance, mentorship, or
- support to other practitioners.
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary stakeholders (HR, managers, external providers).
- Experience using OH clinical systems, ideally Cority.
- Experience leading elements of service development,
- Clinical Governance or clinical quality improvement.
- Experience coordinating or leading case conference
- meetings.
- Health promotion/well-being experience
- Develop and deliver training
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a relevant service area.
- Experience of supervising employees, allocating workloads and supervising the completion of work.
- Experience of guiding and supervising project work.
- Experience of negotiating and consulting with internal
- and external stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist Practitioner in Occupational health to certificate, diploma or degree level or working towards this or demonstration of
- equivalent knowledge and skill
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working as an Occupational Health Nurse Advisor in a nurse-led OH service.
- Experience managing a clinical caseload with complex, sensitive, or
- high-risk cases.
- Experience delivering OH assessments including pre-employment, fitness for work, health surveillance and sickness absence
- management
- Experience providing supervision, clinical guidance, mentorship, or
- support to other practitioners.
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary stakeholders (HR, managers, external providers).
- Experience using OH clinical systems, ideally Cority.
- Experience leading elements of service development,
- Clinical Governance or clinical quality improvement.
- Experience coordinating or leading case conference
- meetings.
- Health promotion/well-being experience
- Develop and deliver training
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a relevant service area.
- Experience of supervising employees, allocating workloads and supervising the completion of work.
- Experience of guiding and supervising project work.
- Experience of negotiating and consulting with internal
- and external stakeholders.
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.
