Occupational Health Advisor

Teaching Vacancies; Bury St Edmunds; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Flexible working

Employee Assistance Programme

Canteen

Staff development days

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Eastern Education Group across all sites is hiring an experienced Occupational Health Advisor to join our Wellbeing & Development team as we launch our first in-house occupational health service.

You will provide confidential occupational health advice and guidance, manage referrals, support workplace adjustments, contribute to health surveillance programmes, and promote wellbeing initiatives that help colleagues thrive at work.

Qualifications

• Must have NMC registration.
• SCPHN in Occupational Health desirable.
• Experience in occupational health.
• Strong communication and clinical judgement.

Responsibilities

• Provide confidential occupational health advice and guidance.
• Manage referrals and support workplace adjustments.
• Contribute to health surveillance programmes and wellbeing initiatives.

Skills

NMC registration

SCPHN

Communication skills

Clinical judgement

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Eastern Education Group – Across all sites (Hybrid role – with up to 50% of time on site)
• 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year - Permanent
• Salary: £33,674- £40,446 per annum (Dependent on qualifications and experience)

We are delighted to offer a brand-new opportunity for an experienced Occupational Health Advisor to join our Wellbeing & Development team as we launch our first in-house occupational health service.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a proactive and responsive service that supports colleagues across Eastern Education Group. You will provide confidential occupational health advice and guidance, manage referrals, support workplace adjustments, contribute to health surveillance programmes, and promote wellbeing initiatives that help colleagues thrive at work.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement, and the ability to provide clear, practical recommendations on a range of health and wellbeing matters. NMC registration is essential. SCPHN registration with Occupational Health Nursing as the field of practice is desirable, although applications from experienced occupational health practitioners without this specialist qualification are welcomed.

This role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact by delivering high-quality occupational health support while helping to develop a service that places prevention, early intervention and colleague wellbeing at its heart.

What the school offers its staff

• Membership into Local Government Pension Scheme
• Family friendly policies and flexible working
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Canteen
• Access to various memberships and discount schemes
• Learning and development opportunities, including staff development days
• Funded subject course development for your role
• Range of staff communities, including EDI and neurodiverse communities
• Career progression opportunities

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.