Occupational Health, Head of Profession

MI5; London; On-site; GBP 77,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Join MI5 as the Head of Occupational Health, where you will lead a transformative service ensuring health compliance and promoting wellbeing across agencies. This role demands extensive experience in health fields and offers a chance to make a significant impact on the nation's safety. Enjoy flexible working options in a dedicated and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Support for professional qualifications

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Occupational Health services.
• Proven leadership in health and wellbeing initiatives.
• Ability to maintain clinical governance and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of cross-agency Occupational Health service.
• Ensure legal compliance and risk management.
• Support professional development for Occupational Health team.

Skills

Leadership

Risk Management

Health Promotion

Education

Professional qualifications in Occupational Health

Job description

Occupational Health, Head of Profession

Locations: London, Cheltenham or Manchester

Salary:London: £77,123, Cheltenham and Manchester: £75,881

Flexible working: we recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible working options including part-time, job share and compressed hours. Please note, due to the nature of this role, home working will not be possible.

MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people and way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners, including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. Through our protective security arm, we provide advice and guidance to government, businesses and other organisations about how to keep themselves safe. A role inMI5 means you’ll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real difference to UK national security.

Our Occupational Health team are facing an exciting and transformative period, which means we’re currently looking for someone with extensive experience and expertise to join us as an Occupational Health Head of Profession. You’ll play a crucial role in our organisation, leading the delivery of a cross-agency Occupational Health service – ensuring legal compliance and risk management, while driving the promotion of health and wellbeing in the workplace.

Working with the heads of Safety, Wellbeing and Workplace Adjustments, you’ll ensure the delivery of a professional and joined-up service, while providing clinical governance to the Occupational Health team. You’ll also support and enable continued professional development to ensure core skills and clinical registrations are maintained. This role will require travel across the UK and occasionally overseas. If you’re looking for an equally challenging and rewarding opportunity, this role will give you the chance to have impact on people whose work protects the nation.

We offer a welcoming, inclusive and unique workplace and we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential. You’ll receive plenty of support, from opportunities to build on your professional qualifications, to access to a number of friendly sports, social, and interest clubs as well as a thriving number of affinity networks championing equity, diversity and inclusion across our organisations.

At MI5 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website.

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To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years, if successful you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Full eligibility details are available on our website.