Occupational Health Coordinator - Belfast, United Kingdom - Hunter Savage

Hunter Savage

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Belfast, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Stephanie Mulholland

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FulltimeHunter Savage are delighted to be supporting a large, well established NI employer, headquartered in Belfast City centre, to recruit a HR Occupational Health Coordinator for a 6 month fixed term contract duration.

The successful HR Occupational Health Coordinator will support, and initiative processes and actions around sickness absence management, ill health and early retirement.

They will also manage redeployment and return to work process, producing sickness absence reports etc.

This is a 6 month fixed term contract but there is an attractive salary and benefits package on offer.

The Role:

Coordinate, promote and initiate appropriate action by Managers to ensure the continuous driving down of sickness absence
Engage with key departments and stakeholders eg line managers, occupational health service, employee assistant programme (EAP) providers, HR etc
Receive occupational health medical reports on staff to assess the physician's opinion, options and recommendations
Decide best courses of action and proactively follow up the necessary action step
Maintain the system with file uploads, shift patterns and annual leave entitlements
Training and communications on any updates to absence recording and processes
Generate and distribute absence sickness reports eg Managing sickness report, trend graphs
Ensure effective administration of all ill health early retirement processes
Attend the occupational health Service Medical Case Conference to discuss and consider the medical history, diagnosis and treatments relating to particular cases
Analyse monthly invoices from independent Occupational Health and the EAP provider and report on the types of treatment and other interventions and their consequent costs
Prepare individual medical business cases where Occupational Health, Welfare or EAP recommend particular medical treatments of other interventions. Monitor the subsequent sickness patterns of the employees' concerned
Provide cover for the HR admin team

The Person:

Essential:

Minimum of 3 GCSEs at Grade C or above, including English & Maths
Minimum of 23 years experience in HR, sickness absence or Occupational Health administration
Experience of data interpretation and decision making
Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels
Ability to interpret and assess data and take forward appropriate action
Ability to deal with complex issues

Desirable: