Occupational Health Adviser

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Occupational Health Adviser

The Student Occupational Health team is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, qualified Occupational Health Advisor. You will join a small, friendly team delivering specialist services to enrolled students at Cardiff University.The Student Occupational Health Service operates within the Student Health and Wellbeing Division. Based at the Heath Park Campus the service predominantly supports healthcare students from enrolment through to graduation but accepts management referrals for all students across the university.

The post holder will offer expert advice and assessment to students referred by staff within the university for students to thrive during their time at Cardiff University and beyond. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the administrative team in a busy service. Experience working autonomously and under pressure given the impact of the cyclical academic year is essential.This role will suit someone who is motivated and committed to service improvement and who thrives in a collaborative environment as well as having the ability to manage their own workload. The post holder will be expected to undertake case management and to complete relevant health surveillance assessments for students in accordance with Health and Safety Regulations and university policies/guidance.

You’ll be joining a team consisting of experienced nurses and an experienced and supportive administrative team, which values and respects all of its team members and the wider university community it serves.

This post requires experience of delivering vaccination programmes and venepuncture.

The post is full time (35 hours per week) and open ended.

Salary: £40,497 – £45,413 per annum (Grade 6)

Date advert posted: Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Closing date: Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 37 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pro rata for part time staff, local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Job Description

Key Duties

• Provide specialist Occupational Health advice and guidance to Academic and Professional staff in respect of registered students, as required, within the University ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood.
• Ensure the provision of a safe, clinically effective Occupational Health Service for students within a framework of clinical governance and clinical supervision prioritising the delivery of care on a clinical assessment of individual needs.
• Deliver service provision independently within a multidisciplinary team in accordance with NMC guidance.
• Develop programmes of care/rehabilitation, and advise on fitness to study/practise, for students as part of your clinical caseload with the provision of physical and mental assessment (as necessary) and recommending a range of options to support study/placement.
• Deliver enrolment screening programmes for Healthcare Students to ensure fitness to commence academic study within the parameters outlined by professional regulatory bodies and supported by Higher Education Occupational Health Physicians (HEOPS).
• Deliver clinically appropriate vaccination programmes to meet the requirements of Healthcare Students as prescribed by the Department of Health.
• Deliver clinically appropriate screening and surveillance programmes to meet the requirements of students as required by legislation.
• Investigate and analysis specific issues within the student population providing advice, guidance and recommendations to maximise student health and wellbeing.
• Undertake service delivery independently within specialist competency, knowledge and experience referring appropriately internally to the Occupational Health Physician or externally for the benefit and safety of staff, students and patients in an NHS environment.
• To participate in evaluating developments within the profession of Occupational Health as influenced by changes in legislation or clinical guidance to ensure the Student Occupational Health Service delivers excellent standards of care.
• Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required.
• Contribute to small scale projects across the University to develop the understanding of Student Occupational Health amongst Colleges, Schools, Professional Services and Student Union to influence delivery according to service need.
• Develop and deliver training within Colleges, Schools, Professional Services and Students Union to develop knowledge and understanding of Student Occupational Health with a view to benefiting the student experience.
• Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department.

General Duties

• Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
• Abide by all University policies including Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity and act in accordance with University values and behaviours.
• Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.

Person Specification

Important Notice

• It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable.
• As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement.
• Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined below.
• Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.

When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure that you name it with the vacancy reference number, e.g. Supporting Statement for 20318BR

Essential Criteria

Qualifications and Education

• Nursing and Midwifery (NMC) Council Registered General Nurse with a specialist qualification in Occupational Health (Degree or Post Graduate Diploma).

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Substantial experience of working within Occupational Health Service in a Healthcare environment.
• Evidence based competency of delivering vaccination programmes and venepuncture.
• Specialist knowledge in interpretation of blood bourne virus laboratory results for Healthcare workers.
• Strong IT skills including use of clinical software to manage electronic health records.

Customer Service, Communication and Team Working

• Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
• Evidence of ability to work as an effective team member and develop networks in order to contribute to long term development.

Planning, Analysis and Problem solving

• Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identify and propose both practical and innovative solutions.
• Evidence of demonstrable knowledge of key advances within specialist discipline.
• Evidence of ability to undertake and deliver specific projects and supervise short term project teams.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working as Occupational Health Adviser in a Higher Education environment.
• Experience of working as an Occupational Health Adviser external to the NHS.
• Fluency in Welsh, written and oral.

Salary Range Min.

40,497

Salary Range Max.

45,413

Job Category

Health

Grade

Grade 6 #J-18808-Ljbffr