At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and innovate in Occupational Health & Wellbeing for a major rail project.
- Company: Join HS2 Ltd, the UK's pioneering high-speed rail network.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible benefits, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in health and wellbeing while shaping the future of transport.
- Qualifications: Registered General Nurse with Occupational Health experience and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 54878 - 64562 £ per year.
Salary: £54,878 - £64,562 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
About the role:
This role is responsible for providing a range of advisory and analytical services covering all aspects of Occupational Health & Wellbeing to support general business operations and programmes in order to contribute to the effective delivery of Occupational Health and Wellbeing Services aligned to the overall HS2 Ltd Occupational Health objectives.
As a Senior Occupational Health and Wellbeing Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for:
- Undertaking contractor prequalification and tender evaluations as part of the procurement process with follow-on continuous monitoring of supply chain performance.
- Developing, supporting and implementing a strategy for Occupational Health and Wellbeing that meets the business objectives, and works in collaboration with the wider people functions by incorporating strategies of primary prevention and early intervention of adverse health effects.
- Working in partnership at senior level with other appropriate agencies and professionals to provide expert guidance, develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies when an Occupational Health input is required.
- Evaluating annually the effectiveness of the Occupational Health & Wellbeing service, its interventions and benefits through self-auditing procedures.
- Collecting, recording and interpreting Occupational Health data so regular feedback is provided back to the business and supply chain in order to drive performance.
- Leading, implementing and reporting on Occupational Health assurance within the supply chain.
- Appraising policies and recommending changes to prevent ill health and improve health outcomes.
- Leading the development of Occupational Health standards and acting as an expert in the development of policies where input is required.
- Supporting Occupational Health forums within the supply chain as well as HS2 employees forums for example health & wellbeing & mental health first aiders.
About You:
Skills:
- Registered General Nurse (degree or similar) with Occupational Health.
- Qualification (Qualified to Masters or Degree Level) or BSc in Community Nursing (OH) with specialist practitioner status (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse) recorded by the NMC are essential.
- Project management.
- Data compilation, integration, analysis and presentation.
- Financial budgeting.
- Negotiating, influencing and interpersonal communication skills with the sensitivity to provide support across a variety of situations.
- Managing 'upwards' as the subject matter expert as well as 'downwards'.
- Proficient in producing, drafting and presenting documents/modes of communications for a variety of audiences.
- Producing and analysing Occupational Health & Wellbeing data.
- Strategic mindset bringing new ideas to help improve the health and wellbeing service.
- Training skills with the ability to inspire, motivate and support a team of health & safety and Project team professionals around health risk management and health assurance.
- Networking with other Occupational Health to discuss professional issues and benchmarking to ensure a high standard of service provision.
Knowledge:
- Occupational Health & Wellbeing knowledge including up-to-date knowledge of applicable legislation, best practice principles and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of the administration, policies and procedures in relation to occupational health and wellbeing requirements, conditions of service.
Experience:
- Experience in managing Occupational Health & Wellbeing services on a major project or programme.
- Managerial Experience in an Occupational Health setting.
- Experience of undertaking assurance of third parties and supply chain.
- Experience of implementing Occupational Health & Wellbeing strategy.
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review.
HS2 Ltd will be the UK's new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs. HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
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