Contract: Permanent, Part-time and full-time hours available
Location: Essex
Salary: Up to £43,000 per annum, depending on experience
As an Occupational Health Advisor at Medigold Health, you’ll play a key role in supporting our clients to create healthier, safer working environments for their people.
You’ll deliver a full range of clinical services, including case management, fitness-for-work assessments, health surveillance, vaccinations and phlebotomy. You’ll be confident providing clear, practical guidance that supports both employers and employees, drawing on your professional judgement and up-to-date clinical knowledge.
You’ll work both independently and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team, providing practical, evidence-based advice to help reduce absence, support return-to-work plans, and promote a healthy working environment.
If you’re an experienced OHA who’s confident managing a varied clinical caseload and looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you!
Main Objectives
- Practice within the scope of the NMC professional practice and Code of Conduct and to work according to qualification, experience and competency.
- To ensure clinical standards of best practice are followed and company policies and procedures are adhered to.
- To fully utilise company IT systems in the performance of duties.
- To undertake health surveillance/medicals/health promotion activities as required.
- The delivery of the Occupational Health Service to Medigold clients and to ensure that the provision of the occupational health advice is at all times of the highest standard.
- Undertake clinical supervision/peer audit in relation to case management in a level 1 role.
- To act as an ambassador and promote the Occupational Health services available.
Specific Responsibilities
- To provide professional occupational health case management advice for our clients expediting an early return to work for absent employees.
- Provide and maintain appropriate advice on health issues, health promotion and health education to employers and employees.
- Work autonomously and as part of the Medigold Health multi-disciplinary team to ensure that a satisfactory level of service is provided to all clients and their employees achieving current service level agreements.
- Undertake Health Surveillance, including vaccinations and phlebotomy as required.
- Practice within the scope of the NMC professional practice and Code of Conduct and to work according to qualification, experience, and competency.
- Ensure that CPD and other training needs are undertaken to ensure compliance with NMC requirement for continuing registration. Maintain evidence in support of Revalidation.
- Ensure that one is familiar with the requirements of all appropriate client contracts and Aide Memoirs.
- Maintain, store and handle medical records in accordance with Medigold-Health Data Protection Policy and GDPR requirements in order to preserve and respect client and employee medical confidentiality.
- Liaise with other service teams regarding both client and patient queries.
- Complete all clinical administration in accordance with Medigold-Health policies and procedures and to ensure that activities are completed within agreed timescales and Service level agreements.
- To participate in Clinical Audit activities as required.
Requirements for this role
- Nursing Qualification
- Occupational Health degree/diploma
- NMC registration.
- Demonstrable equivalent experience within Occupational Health departments.
- Experience of attending, presenting, and hosting client Wellness and health promotion days.
- Trained to undertake all clinical services including health surveillance, fitness to work medicals, vaccinations and phlebotomy.
- Extending experience, skills and competency with case management activities undertaking increasing complexity of referrals
Our Company Benefits
- 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, increasing with length of service
- Contributory pension scheme up to 5%
- Paid Professional Memberships and Indemnity Insurance
- Access to Company benefits and discount portal
- Access to a Health Cash Plan
- Free eyecare vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to confidential Employee Assistance programme
- Interactive mental health and wellbeing app