North Yorkshire Police

Health and Wellbeing Screening Technician

The closing date is 31 July 2025

Job summary

We're Hiring: Health and Wellbeing Screening Technician

PLEASE APPLY HERE:https://northyorkshirepolice.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/3811/0/454655/21992/health-and-wellbeing-screening-technician

Location:Thirsk & Northallerton

Part-Time:20.5 hours/week (Tues, Thurs, Fri)

Join our Occupational Health team and help deliver high-quality screening services acrossNorth Yorkshire PoliceandFire & Rescue Service. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a healthcare background whos passionate about workplace wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will

Conduct medical screenings and health surveillance
Assess preemployment questionnaires and fitness for duty
Deliver health awareness workshops and events
Screen for dyslexia indicators
Support reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act
Maintain and analyse health data to identify trends
Travel across North Yorkshire (driving licence required)

About us

Working for us - what we can offer you

Working for the emergency services is truly rewarding, and we want to inspire all colleagues to achieve their full potential. Everything we do has a direct impact on the service our organisation delivers, and each of us contributes to ensuring our communities continue to feel safe.

Youll be welcomed into an organisation that is committed to ensuring everyone is treated fairly and supported equally. We value different perspectives, skills and experiences and we care about the well-being of our staff, and actively support people so they can perform to their best.

In addition, we offer a range of benefits including:

Staff support networks
Training and development
Excellent government pension scheme
Access to onsite Health and Wellbeing services
24 days holiday entitlement, increasing to 30 days with length of service (plus bank holidays)
Access to discounts at major retailers
Unison recognised trade union
Inclusion and Diversity support networks

Positive Action

At North Yorkshire Police we value difference. We have a positive action team who are dedicated to supporting you through your application and beyond. If you feel you need any reasonable adjustments to help you reach your potential, please contact our Positive Action Team,positiveaction@northyorkshire.police.uk.

Date posted

18 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£26,106 to £31,296 a year Full time equivalent

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

Q0001-25-0001

Job locations

Alverton Court

Crosby Rd

Northallerton

North Yorkshire

DL6 1BF

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a health and wellbeing screening technician you will deliver a high quality screening service of appropriate medical examinations for employees and potential employees across NYP, NYFRS and the OPFCC. As part of the screening program for new employees you will interpret all test results to establish any further actions or recommendations as required as well as advise people Services re fitness for employment accordingly.

You will contribute to the development, promotion and review of all polices and initiatives for managing health at work including effective education and prevention strategies across NYP and NYFRS and OPFCC in-line with the key performance indicators ensuring a healthy workforce to bring value to frontline services as well as advise, and deliver an inoculation programme.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver a high quality, timely inoculation programme for relevant staff.

To assess pre-employment questionnaires for specific roles and advise, People Services colleagues and managers, re fitness for employment/fitness test.

To identify any need to obtain further information from GPs/Consultants to assist in the establishments for suitability/fitness for employment.

To undertake routine health surveillance of role-specific staff groups

To undertake Display Screen Equipment Assessments when required.

To provide health promotion at every opportunity and ensure current literature is available.

To liaise with the Health and Wellbeing Nursing team on physical health matters

To liaise with the Health and Wellbeing Counselling team on all Psychological issues.

To deliver in-service health assessments, as required

To ensure knowledge of and compliance with the Equality Act

To contribute and assist the Lead Wellbeing Nurse on developing the medical and screen service to ensure value is added to the NYP and NYFRS and OPFCC.

To offer support and advice for staff and their managers in identified roles where routine screening is required.

Actively pursue research or project work on specific initiatives, as directed.

Promotion and enhancement of the concept of staff health and wellbeing, helping to raise awareness of the role and its function to employees in all organisations.

Complete statistical information of activities, to identify any organisational issues or trends.

Requirements

To succeed in this role it is essential that you will have extensive experience of working in health care and training in health screening and promotion activities would be an advantage.

You will have the ability to organise your time effectively and to cope with the pressures of a demanding role as well as being able to communicate effectively and work collaboratively with various working parties to provide a high quality medical screening service.

Knowledge and an understanding of health and wellbeing in the work place and the drive to keep abreast of current initiatives and best practice is an important quality to be a success in this role.

To carry out this role it you will need to have training in medical screening, venepuncture, audio and spiro health surveillance as well as delivering immunisations. If you do not have these currently you will be required to attend the training course to achieve these skills. This will be supported by NYP.