Main area Occupational Health Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: Indicative Band subject to Agenda for Change banding Hours 15 hours per week (part time) Job ref 264-7710648-COR
Employer Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Occupational Health Department Town Kettering Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/02/2026 23:59
Senior Occupational Health Advisor
Band 7
Job overview
Are you an Occupational Health nurse looking for a new challenge? Are you excited about developing your leadership skills and playing a key role in managing the delivery of an expanding Occupational Health and Wellbeing service to NHS staff? Would you like to work in a team with a collective goal to improve clinical standards within a service that’s always striving to be the best? If so, this may be the position for you.
Main duties of the job
Playing a key role in:
* Developing and reviewing the Occupational Health and Wellbeing service delivery
* Promoting excellence in nursing and maintaining and improving clinical standards
* Supporting the creation of a service that is patient focused and inspires patient and employer confidence
* Leading on all elements of clinical governance
* Staff development and training
Working for our organisation
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.
Our Excellence Values
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
Person specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
* Registered NMC General Nurse
* Educated to Degree level (or equivalent level of training, education, or experience)
* Part 3 Registered Occupational Health Specialist Nurse Qualification/Working towards (or equivalent level of training, education or experience)
* Immunisation Training
* Venepuncture Expansion of Practice
* NEBOSH/IOSH Qualification
* Chain of Custody Training
* Audiometry Training /Spirometry Training
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of working within an NHS occupational health setting at Band 6
* Experience of supervising and supporting a junior clinical team with day-to-day matters
* Experience of supporting workplace physical and mental health
* Experience and knowledge of basic clinical audit process
* Operational Experience of using eOPAS/G2
Skills
* IT proficient in using Microsoft packages and clinical systems
* Demonstrates positive leadership behaviours to motivate, supervise and support the junior clinical and administration team
* Flexible and able to respond to changing situations and manage potentially distressing and sensitive situations, encounter healthcare workers who may have complex physical and/mental health issues or have been exposed to occupational exposures/incidents
* Good self-awareness and self-care /compassion strategies in order to be able to address complex multi- dimensional issues (as above) and provide support to the team in a professional and compassionate way.
* Clinical expertise in venepuncture, administration of vaccinations, Mantoux testing, Management of Contamination injuries, management and health surveillance screening including healthcare workers living with a bloodborne virus.
* Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and listening)
* Presentation skills to be able to deliver informal and formal teaching or to present information
Applications will be transferred to TRAC system, by completing an application your are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data.
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
We welcome applications from members of our black and minority ethnic (BME) communities, especially in relation to senior posts within at KGH.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
Appointments will be made on merit.
In submitting an application form, you authorise Kettering General Hospital (KGH) NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training record.
If you need to have a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, as a requirement of the role, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check (£49.50) and this amount will be reclaimed from your first salary. From 1st February 2019 all new starters to the Trust are required to join the DBS update service as per Trust DBS Re-checking Policy which has an annual cost of £16. New employees who do not join the update service will be required to pay £49.50 for a new DBS check in 3 years time.
Please note that news starters with KGH are subject to a six month probationary period.
Please ensure that the information you provide on your application form is correct, accurate and that nothing has been omitted. Any information that is stated in your application form in relation to qualifications/training courses/work/education experience/references must be able to be evidenced. Failure to do so may result if your offer being withdrawn.
"Safeguarding is everyone's business. KGH considers Safeguarding a priority amongst its citizen's and a key value for all employed to the service."
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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