Head of Occupational Health and Wellbeing - Grimsby, United Kingdom - Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

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Grimsby, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are a small but ambitious NHS Foundation Trust with close working alliances with Hull University Teaching Hospitals.

We are committee to providing the very best working environments for our staff, a large part of this is ensuring that we support and maintain both the physical and mental health of our colleagues.

That's where you come in.

With the support of the Trust senior management team, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Occupational Health Nurse to come and lead our nurse led Occupational Health Team.

The Occupational Health service sits within the People Directorate and is pivotal to our staff in providing health related support, advice, guidance, prevention and intervention throughout their employment journey.

The Occupational Health & Wellbeing Team provides a preventative and advisory service for all members of staff in the Trust as well as a range of Occupational Health services to a number of local small and medium-sized commercial businesses.

We are a small, nurse-led team with Occupational Physician support on a sessional basis.

The purpose of the Head of Occupational Health is to lead and develop the service, manage the Occupational Health Team, and provide expert evidence based practice, clinical expertise and support to the clinical members of the OH team, members of staff and managers within the organisation, as well as local commercial business contractors.

The key functions of the post include ensuring the effective delivery of a high standard of innovative evidence-based practice, maintaining a service that is responsive to the specific health needs of our staff whilst managing the budget and resources effectively to enable this.

Key Result Areas:

Preemployment clearance to be completed within agreed timelines
Staff wellbeing appointments to be completed within agreed timelines
To lead on the flu/covid vaccination programme for staff and a key adviser for patient vaccination programmes
To lead on the implementation on future emerging staff vaccinations with key Trust clinical departments
To maintain and develop innovative approaches to OH service delivery
To ensure the department meets the SEQOHS standards

We're a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt 'best practice' so we can deliver excellent care to our patients.

We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

"We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers".

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.

As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff.

This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.