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This is a great opportunity to join the Thames Water Occupational Health & Wellbeing team to manage increasing service demands and ensure the Occupational Health service delivery can develop further to meet business needs.
This is a hybrid role where you will be required to travel to several of our operational sites in and around the London, Reading, and Thames Valley area for three days per and work onsite or at home for two days per week doing administration tasks.
What you’ll be doing as an Occupational Health Technician
What’s in it for you?
This is an exciting role and gives the successful person a great chance to make improvements and grow within the role.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed with offers and information to save you money and support your well-being.
Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We must keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?
Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.
We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.
Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Find out more about working at Thames Water.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
This is a hybrid role where you will be required to travel to several of our operational sites in and around the London, Reading, and Thames Valley area for three days per and work onsite or at home for two days per week doing administration tasks.
What you’ll be doing as an Occupational Health Technician
- The OHT will undertake agreed clinical activities relevant to the Occupational Health services including safety critical medicals, health surveillance and drug and alcohol screening.
- Undertake workplace visits for any issues relating to health at work relating to the OHT’s scope of practice.
- Be accountable for delivery, recording and reporting health surveillance and escalating results of concern to either the OHA or OH Physician.
- Ensure the delivery of the highest possible standards of quality-assured, evidence-based practice.
- Work largely unsupervised at times both in the department and at other premises, delivering high-standard OH services to clients allocated to their care.
- Assist the Occupational Health nursing staff in supporting the clinical activities of the business.
- Be responsible for cleaning and stock-checking clinical areas as per protocols and checklists. Help maintain clinical supplies and ensure that all clinical rooms are suitably maintained for the clinics to be carried out.
- Comply with all Thames Water policies, procedures, and practices and be responsible for keeping up to date with any changes to these.
- Participating in the planning and delivery of health promotion/education initiatives at both a local and organisational level.
- Responding professionally to all people who may have dealings with the Occupational Health.
- Administration Duties.
- Working hours: 36 hours per week.
- Experience in safety-critical medicals/ physicals is essential.
- Willingness to travel as required by the business.
- Experience and confidence in working with IT systems.
- Have a working knowledge of health and safety legislation.
- To be able to demonstrate they have worked within a health care setting or similar discipline and can undertake and perform technical procedures.
- You will be personable and have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to build relationships within all areas of the business.
- You will be able to work on your initiative and manage your own time.
- Ability to prioritize and adjust as appropriate, own workload to ensure tasks are progressed/completed promptly.
- Attend regular team training and contribute towards the development of ‘new ways of working’.
- Driving licence as regular travel will be needed.
- You should also be competent in Microsoft packages and ideally familiar with clinical databases such as the Cohort software system.
What’s in it for you?
This is an exciting role and gives the successful person a great chance to make improvements and grow within the role.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed with offers and information to save you money and support your well-being.
Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We must keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?
Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.
We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.
Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Find out more about working at Thames Water.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
