Role: Occupational Health Advisor REF (phone number removed)
Contract Length: Until December 2024
Location: Sheffield
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £24.21 per hour

 

Spinwell is recruiting for an Occupational Health Advisor for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ADVISOR

• Conduct telephone consultations and manage complex caseloads maintaining clinical objectivity and impartiality at all times in line with occupational health guidance.
• Provide appropriate and effective evidence based occupational health advice to support employees and management.
• Provide a concise report to management indicating an employee’s fitness to work and detailing any advisory reasonable adjustments with timeframes in line with audit criteria.
• Utilise a bio-psychosocial approach combined with functional assessment to address barriers to work and inform robust work recommendations.
• Obtain specialist reports where appropriate to do so and liaise with the Physician, Physiotherapists and Counsellors in order to provide robust occupational health reports that support an individual’s rehabilitation back to work and utilise relevant organisational policies to support effective return to work plans. Deliver pre-employment and mandatory medicals advising on fitness for work, providing details of workplace adjustments for managers to consider and ensuring medicals are undertaken within agreed timescales to maintain frontline operational policing.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ADVISOR

• Passion for excellence and high standards of client care.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship management skills.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Proven ability to manage a challenging workload.
• Professionally qualified in Occupational Health Nursing (Degree or Diploma, postgraduate qualification) – along with significant understanding and practical experience in the health sector.
• Case management experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing issues facing Policing.  
• Proven ability to manage a challenging workload
• Thorough understanding and application of professional regulatory frameworks and their relevance to SYP occupational health services.

If you are an Occupational Health Advisor, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

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