Job summary

Occupational Health Advisor Band 5 - Part-time 22.5 hours / week .

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic, motivated Occupational Health Advisor to join our friendly team in the Occupational Health Service of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. The post is based at Stepping Hill Hospital / Tameside Hospital, will also involve cross site working, travel to some outside NHS sites and companies for whom we provide an Occupational Health service.

Due to the variety of the work carried out here you would obtain extensive experience in all aspects of Occupational Health. You must be RGN qualified ideally with NHS experience in Occupational Health. There may be an opportunity to train and obtain a qualification in Occupational Health.

It is important that you have excellent verbal and written communication skills including confident use of IT packages.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

Main duties of the job

• Assist in the provision of a comprehensive occupational health service
• To maintain a professional and safe standard of occupational health nursing .
• To provide specialist advice, guidance and support to Trust managers and staff.
• To assist lead nurses provide effective Occupational Health Care for all the Trust employees/outside industries.
• Provide specialist knowledge in delivering a safe and effective immunisation programme for the Trust and external clients and vaccinating during the seasonal flu programme.
• To perform health surveillance procedures such as spirometry, audiometry, skin surveillance, Vision Screening and hand arm vibration.
• Undertake pre-employment / pre-placement assessments.
• Carry out medicals (for example; Pre-employment/driver medicals/Confined space medicals) by undertaking the relevant measurements including; height, weight, BMI, vision testing (near, distance, colour vision, use of the keystone), musculoskeletal assessments, Blood pressure & pulse measurements and urine testing. These require complex physical skills.
• Carry out venepuncture ensuring correct completion of request forms and entry into patient electronic records.
• Assessment and management of inoculation incidents.
• Carry out lifestyle assessments
• Drug and alcohol testing.
• Undertakes clinical audit and service evaluation programmes.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice