Head of Occupational Health and Wellbeing - London, United Kingdom - Mitie

Mitie

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Overview:

Plan, develop, coordinate, monitor and audit the delivery of OH services provided, and other contracted organisations, to ensure a high quality value for money service, customer satisfaction, and to improve and promote best practice in OH on the basis of research, evidence and evaluation.
Develop the wellbeing workplace strategy to enable a thriving workplace.
Formulate, implement and evaluate the Company wide OH and Wellbeing Strategy including policies and strategies for health protection and surveillance of workers, to meet legislative requirements and promote employee's health and well being in line with national health strategies and best practice.
Work in partnership at senior level with other appropriate agencies and professionals to provide expert guidance, develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies, when an OH input is required (occupational stress, mental illness, rehabilitation).
Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information for continued improvement.
Keep professionally updated and abreast of new and emerging guidance and legislation that govern legal and ethical aspects of OH practice and use evidence based practice to guide interpretation of statutory requirements and advisory guidance to ensure the health protection of the working population.

Main Duties

Manage and lead the OH contracts
Implement a workplace wellbeing plan to influence the business areas to continuously improve the working life of our colleagues.
Communicate trends and advise on action plans to meet statutory and voluntary requirements for health protection, surveillance and statutory reporting.
Maintenance of processes for confidential records.
Contribute to the provision of training, advice, health surveillance, vaccinations, sickness absence management, investigations of cases of occupational ill health, and other general OH issues.
Work in partnership at with other appropriate stakeholders, including, but not limited to HR, ER, QHSE and Insurance to deliver an effective OH and Wellbeing strategy
Production of guidance material and effective delivery of campaigns and programs?
Case management and liability support

What we are looking for:

Demonstrable experience in an occupational health and wellbeing setting, some of which should be at senior/professional managerial level.
Registered RCN who has completed an OH Diploma or BSc in Community Nursing with specialist practitioner status (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse) registered with the NMC.
Post basic education and training equivalent to University higher degree is desirable. Management qualification/experience highly desirable, together with experience of managing and influencing stakeholders
Strong interpersonal skills including motivational, negotiating, relationship building and influencing skills are essential, to ensure the correct perception, and thus effectiveness, of occupational health as a discipline, whilst maintaining the correct balance between protection of employee health and the interests and reputation of the company.

Health and Safety responsibilities

Follow Group and company policies and procedures at all times;
Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment;
Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received;
Report any issues or training needs to your Line manager and /or via your divisional incident reporting system