Occupational Health (OH) Specialist
Your Manager: Occupational Health Manager
Team: Occupational Health
Location: Kilmalid, Dumbarton
Contract Type: Permanent
About the role
We now have an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Health Specialist to be responsible for the delivery of an effective Occupational Health Service across our organisation that meets and exceeds the expectations of its customers by adopting the latest initiatives in business health practice and developing preventative policy to add value and significantly influence the performance of the business.
What you will do
* Support the day‑to‑day management and service delivery across agreed sites and develop influential relationships across the company to identify, promote and deliver OH data and services which enable improved health performance and organisational effectiveness.
* Take the lead in appropriate initiatives and company health promotion activities and be responsible for the maintenance of appropriate employee medical files, ensuring confidentiality.
* Provide general OH support and advice in line with business strategy to management, union representatives and employees, as well as being involved in the sickness absence management process and advising on long‑term absence issues, return‑to‑work plans and Equality Act advice.
* Conduct both pre‑employment and in‑employment screening as appropriate and provide advice and guidance to managers and employees on ways of promoting a healthy working environment.
* Conduct and educate key personnel on workplace health risk assessments.
* Integrate health considerations into business processes to help enhance productivity and individual capability and develop and implement OH policies, standards and procedures to nationally accepted standards which reflect best practice and communicate these to appropriate personnel.
Your skills and background
* Registered General Nurse, with a degree in Occupational Health Nursing / NMC specialist practitioner status.
* Post‑registration experience, including experience in an Occupational Health environment.
* Knowledge of current Health and Safety legislation and a sound knowledge of clinical health issues.
* Knowledge of broader business issues and ability to think strategically as to how OH can add value to the Company.
* Strong project management skills, IT literacy and a pragmatic, insightful approach to problem solving.
* Current, Full UK driving licence.
Our mix of benefits
* Competitive salary, along with performance‑related bonus.
* Defined Contribution Pension.
* Private medical insurance, including income protection.
* Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
* 25 days’ annual holiday (increasing with length of service up to 27) plus public holidays.
* Pernod Ricard share incentive plan and share ownership plan.
* Life Assurance.
* An allowance each year to spend on our brands.
* Our reward & recognition scheme.
* Employee discounts from a range of high‑street retailers.
* Regular events in our very own office bar.
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