Occupational Health Technician in Sheffield

A leading IN-HOUSE client is looking for an experienced Occupational Health Technician, to join their small, friendly and supportive OH team.

This is a homebased role with extensive travel throughout UK and Ireland.

Responsible for delivering health surveillance and associated activities to sites throughout the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

As an Occupational Health Technician, you will be tasked with focusing on the following areas:

Key Responsibilities

1. Delivering health surveillance, health monitoring and health screening to teams and engineering staff and some fitness for work assessments as required as per clinical protocol
2. Working with regional teams to plan and co-ordinate delivery of the services
3. Operating within clinical protocol and delivering the highest quality of services to teams
4. Providing input into health-related policies
5. Managing health surveillance records on OPAS-G2
6. Escalate any clinical issues in a timely manner to the Occupational Health Team as required,
7. Support the function to move to SEQOSH (Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service) accreditation
8. To become involved in other ad hoc tasks as required.

Qualifications required

Essential – Occupational Health Technician Training and Experience

Desirable – Recognised certification from an accredited training institute for Audiometry, Spirometry, Skin Surveillance and HAVS (Hand-arm Vibration Syndrome) level 2

Experience required

Essential – Experience of delivering high quality OHT services to multi-site organisations

Desirable – Emergency Services/Responder organisation

Suitable for someone who

Is passionate about providing a high quality and effective Health Surveillance/Fitness for Work Programme to a complex and geographically diverse organisation.

Someone who thrives on travel and doesn’t mind being away from home for several days at a time. You will have control over your diary within the requirements of our internal customers and be provided with an Essential Users vehicle.

Please forward your CV to us for further details.