Occupational Health Advisor

Adecco; Sheffield; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Temporary Occupational Health Advisor to support the wellbeing service for the South Yorkshire Police. The role requires excellent client care and communication skills, alongside occupational health qualifications and experience in case management. The position will involve conducting assessments and providing evidence-based advice to support employees and management. Remote work is available, but candidates must have lived in the UK for the last 5 years continuously.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified in Occupational Health Nursing (Degree or Diploma, postgraduate qualification).
• Knowledge of health and wellbeing issues facing Policing.
• Thorough understanding of professional regulatory frameworks relevant to occupational health.

Responsibilities

• Conduct telephone consultations and manage complex caseloads.
• Provide evidence-based occupational health advice.
• Report on employee's fitness to work and suggest adjustments.
• Utilize bio-psychosocial approaches for work recommendations.
• Deliver pre-employment and mandatory medicals.

Skills

Client care

Communication skills

Report writing

Workload management

Education

Occupational Health Nursing qualification

Case management experience

Job description

Purpose

The Temporary Occupational Health Advisor resides within the Wellbeing Team and is critical to the core function of the overall wellbeing service. The Temporary Occupational Health Advisor role is required to support the Occupational Health Unit with the delivery of management referrals across the force. Working remotely the Temporary Occupational Health Advisor will ensure that individuals have access to or are signposted to the support that they need to encourage attendance at work, manage any associated risks and to provide managers with guidance that will support a sustainable workforce.

Required Skills

• Passion for excellence and high standards of client care.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship management skills.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Proven ability to manage a challenging workload.

Education & Experience

• Professionally qualified in Occupational Health Nursing (Degree or Diploma, postgraduate qualification)
• Case management experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing issues facing Policing.
• Proven ability to manage a challenging workload.
• Thorough understanding and application of professional regulatory frameworks and their relevance to SYP occupational health services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct telephone consultations and manage complex caseloads maintaining clinical objectivity and impartiality at all times in line with occupational health guidance.
• Provide appropriate and effective evidence based occupational health advice to support employees and management across South Yorkshire Police.
• Provide a concise report to management indicating an employee's fitness to work and detailing any advisory reasonable adjustments with timeframes in line with audit criteria.
• Utilise a bio-psychosocial approach combined with functional assessment to address barriers to work and inform robust work recommendations.
• Obtain specialist reports where appropriate to do so and liaise with the Physician, Physiotherapists and Counsellors in order to provide robust occupational health reports that support an individual's rehabilitation back to work and utilise relevant organisational policies to support effective return to work plans.
• Deliver pre-employment and mandatory medicals advising on fitness for work, providing details of workplace adjustments for managers to consider and ensuring medicals are undertaken within agreed timescales to maintain frontline operational policing.

PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO POLICE CRITERIA, YOU MUST HAVE LIVED IN THE UK FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS CONTINUOUSLY TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION. ANYTHING LESS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

If you have the skills for this role, please apply and one of our Recruitment Consultants will be in touch should your CV be shortlisted.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.