Occupational Health Advisor- Agile Between Sites And Homebased (Birmingham)

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We have an exciting role to be part of the Occupational Health Clinical team, providing a service of excellence on behalf of BHSF OH. Working with customer businesses to promote the health, safety, and well-being of their employees through the provision of clinical services within the private and public sectors. You will be expected to cover the following areas. Birmingham/ West Midlands area including possibly Telford, Oldbury, Wolverhampton, Worcester. This is an agile role with regular travel between Customer sites/BHSF clinics and being Home-based. Customer sites can include variable working conditions onsite (Standard operating procedure to be followed when minimum conditions are not met.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision of specialist nursing skills helping maintain the high standard of service we aim to provide.
• To be responsible for carrying out a full range of specialist nurse activities and including the management of:

• Occupational Health ill health/ management referrals
• Immunisation Programmes
• Health Screening and Surveillance
• New starter screening
• OH direct services
• Workplace Assessments including Display Screen Equipment
• Health Promotion Programmes
• Management of ad hoc Occupational Health issues
• Conducting face-to-face, video or telephone consultations to adhere to BHSF, NMC, NMBI Code of professional Conduct & Ethics for ROI, and any client guidelines and codes of conduct
• Excellent and accurate record keeping and adhering to the BHSF and NMC/ NMBI confidentiality policy and procedure

• Provision of clinical management and organisation skills contributing to efficiency and effectiveness of the service
• Excellent communication skills always promoting a good relationship with both customer management, their HR function, and their employees
• Maintain productive communication with BHSF colleagues to include reporting issues, seeking advice from and consulting with clinical colleagues on complex cases
• To keep abreast of changing legislation, clinical practice and clinical managerial styles that may affect the role of the Occupational Health Advisor
• Under the guidance of your line manager to be responsible for own continuing professional development, to remain compliant with BHSF guidelines and NMC/ NMBI requirements
• Ensure that clinical equipment is maintained and calibrated as planned
• Able to work to tight clinical schedules
• Aim to return reports within 24hrs of the clinic (except when prior viewing is required), or adhering to any other SLAs as agreed with the customer business
• Undertake clinic preparations, ensuring the relevant paperwork and information has been uploaded/ provided, review prior records and seek resolution to any issues
• Preparation of reports following a clinic, to be issued appropriately and securely, uploaded to the BHSF system when required. Ensuring all data consent requirements are adhered to
• Recognise how underlying medical conditions may impact the workplace, and the impact of work on an individual’s underlying condition, making recommendations from an OH perspective
• Prepare for and attend any meetings where OHA input has been requested
• Participate in clinical audits and / or research projects as appropriate
• Always maintain confidentiality
• To organise and control own workload as/ if required
• To feedback general and specific information regarding the client contract to the Senior Management team as appropriate and within bounds of confidentiality
• Able to work autonomously within the role, making independent clinical decisions
• Ensure adherence to legislation and external regulatory frameworks such as SEQOSH/ NMC/ NMBI / RCN
• To produce reports regarding the client contract generally and/or Occupational Health issue
• To maintain Courtesy, professionalism, and high standards of presentation in all communications with customers and potential customers
• To perform all tasks and duties when required providing flexibility and covering a team working environment
• All employees are responsible for ensuring the protection of personal data, as such you are required to actively engage with all requests relating to data protection and proactively ensure compliance with GDPR and the DPA when handling any personal, special category or criminal conviction data. You must report data incidents in-line with Company Policy. You must understand and comply with obligations under the Company’s data protection, information security, GDPR, DPA and FCA regulations and other relevant policies
• Operates within defined risk appetite levels, and within the context of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), Risk Strategy, and all associated policies
• Ensure compliance with the company health and safety rules and requirements, always ensuring your own safety and that of colleagues; raising risks identified immediately and following all health and safety instructions
• At all times, ensure that customers are put first in everything we do, following all policies and procedures, especially those relating to The Consumer Duty

Qualifications and experience

• Ongoing CDP and PDP requirements to remain upskilled
• Registered general nurse (RGN)
• Part of the NMC/ NMBI register (SCPHN)
• Minimum or 2 years post-registration experience
• Experience within a similar role/ setting or evidence of significant transferable skills

Desirable

• Occupational Health qualification (diploma/ degree)
  Skills and personal qualities
• Clinical Skills e.g. spirometry, new starter screening, immunisations, phlebotomy (blood taking), skin assessments, ECGs, drug and alcohol testing, telephone consultations and face-to-face consultations.
• Good organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• IT Skills and previous experience of Cohort
• Customer focused
• Flexible
• Able to work independently and part of a team
• A good decision maker
• Adaptable, Confident, Diplomatic, Honest, Integrity, Discipline, Objective, Trustworthy, Empathetic