Occupational Health & Wellbeing Specialist Nurse in Wolverhampton

This post has become vacant due to the current post holder requiring maternity leave and offers an exciting opportunity to join a well established team of occupational health practitioners based at New Cross Hospital. Our service is part of the Human Resources Directorate and we provide occupational health & wellbeing support to both Trust staff and external customers and deliver health and wellbeing initiatives in line with corporate & national strategy.

Hours of work will be arranged over 5 days a week with core hours of 08.30 to 16.30 and an occasional requirement to work outside these hours to meet service needs potentially to support seasonal work as required such as vaccination campaigns. The postholder will be expected to work in our satellite departments and on various external client sites so a car driver/owner is an essential requirement.

A key component of the role will be to support the Specialist Team Leader responsible for service delivery to an existing external contract and, dependent on the service needs of our customers, there will be times when off site clinics will require the nurse to be available all day, with appropriate notice, and hours adjusted accordingly. We can promise a pleasant and supportive working environment in exchange for a self motivated and flexible team member with a positive attitude and an interest in helping us to promote a healthy working environment for our valued staff.

• To be professionally accountable for the delivery of standards of professional practice and behaviours as set by the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
• To deliver autonomous advanced level practice encompassing aspects of education and research provision of Occupational Health specialist clinical work with clients and caseloads.
• To support other staff within the service.
• To work collaboratively with others or independently to meet the needs of the services.
• Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice.
• Enhancing the client’s experience.
• Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives.
• Efficient and effective use of resources.
• To assess individuals holistically using a range of different assessment methods, use physical examination skills, order diagnostic tests for client group.
• Incorporate health promotion and prevention into care plans, and comprehensively assess clients for risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Safely use client group directives (PGD)/non-medical prescribing as appropriate.
• Safely carry out appropriate health surveillance in line with Health and safety legislation.
• Use professional judgment in managing care events and capture the learning from these experiences to improve client care and service delivery.
• Work within defined boundaries of practice.
• Ensure an effective and efficient clients journey by planning and co-ordinating of the episode of care/caseload including the smooth transition to other settings, promoting safe and effective discharge from the service and optimising communication with interdisciplinary and interagency teams as required.
• Within a multidisciplinary team environment, develop a culture of person-centred care.
• Promote a caring and compassionate environment where equality and diversity issues are respected and clients are enabled to be partners in their care.
• Contribute to the development of care and services by ascertaining client experience/feedback and ensure complaints are managed in line with organisational policy, including the dissemination of learning points.
• Ensure that everyone within the sphere of care is treated with dignity and humanity, understanding individual needs, showing compassion and sensitivity, and provide care in a way that respects all people equally.
• Be proactively involved in undertaking activities that monitor and improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of own and others practice.
• Communicate effectively across a range of circumstances and individuals.
• Assess the risks involved in the care of clients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including safe use of medical devices.
• Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.
• Provide specialist advice to own and other professions on therapeutic interventions and clinical practice.
• Implement practices that are appropriate to client and service need through in-depth knowledge, implications of and applying epidemiological, demographic, social, political and professional trends and developments.
• Lead by example, develop self and other staff, and influence the way care is given in a manner that is innovative, open and responds to individual needs.
• Provide clinical supervision to other staff.
• Work harmoniously and effectively with colleagues and clients, seeking advice from senior practitioners as necessary.
• Practise within the scope of personal professional competence and extend this scope as appropriate to service needs.
• Delegate aspects of care to others and accept responsibility and accountability for such delegation.
• Participate in peer review of own practice.
• Day to day supervision/training of staff/students.
• Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.

• NMC Registered Nurse/Midwife with Relevant qualification in Occupational Health
• Degree level education
• Health Surveillance/vaccine administration training

• Experience of working as Occupational Health Nurse at a senior level in an acute setting
• Ability to apply knowledge and skills to a broad range of clinically and professionally challenging situations
• Occupational Health & Wellbeing case management skills
• Suitability to work with adults/children at risk of abuse
• Able to work effectively under pressure across competing priorities

• Ability to communicate with, and other professions, clients
• Ability to undertake telephone assessments
• Ability to communicate empathetically with Clients, when discussing/explaining clinical conditions and potentially distressing and sensitive information such as breaking bad news
• Presentation skills to small and large groups within and external to the Trust

Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.

The Trust welcomes suitably qualified applicants including those who may require a Trust issued Certificate of Sponsorship. However, not all our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. If you require sponsorship, we recommend applicants check whether the role is eligibility prior to applying. More information can be found on the UKVI website: Health and Care Worker Visa or Skilled Worker Visa.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.