Occupational Health Specialist (12 month FTC)

Pernod Ricard España SA; Dumbarton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Occupational Health Specialist (12 month FTC)

Your Manager: Occupational Health Manager

Team: Occupational Health

Location: Dumbarton - Kilmalid

Your new team

This position sits in our Chivas Brothers business. At Chivas Brothers, our 1,600-strong team across 27 sites is committed to upholding the heritage of Scotch and ensuring its sustainable future, as well as opening it up to new audiences across the globe.

Your unique contribution

The Occupational Health Specialist is 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.

You will have four main areas of responsibility:

• Occupational Health Service – to 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. This will include sickness absence management and a comprehensive health surveillance programme. You will also be involved in appropriate initiatives and company health promotion activities and be responsible for the maintenance of appropriate employee medical files, ensuring confidentiality.
• Employee Support – to 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. You will conduct both pre-placement and in employment screening as appropriate and provide advice and guidance to managers and employees on ways of promoting a healthy working environment.
• Training – to conduct and educate key personnel on workplace health risk assessments.
• Continuous Improvement – to integrate health considerations into business processes to help enhance productivity and individual capability and developing and implementing OH policies, standards and procedures to nationally accepted standards which reflect best practice and communicate these to appropriate personnel.

Who you’ll be working with

Internally, you will collaborate with business managers, HR, and employees across the organisation.

Externally, you will collaborate with external health care providers as appropriate regarding individuals’ fitness to work/return to work.

Your blend of talent

This position could be right for you if you:

• Are a Registered General Nurse, with a degree in Occupational Health Nursing/NMC specialist practitioner status.
• Have post registration experience, including experience in an Occupational Health environment.
• Have knowledge of current Health and Safety legislation and can demonstrate a sound knowledge of clinical health issues.
• Are knowledgeable about broader business issues and able to think strategically as to how OH can add value to the Company.
• Possess strong project management skills, are IT literate and can demonstrate a pragmatic, insightful approach to problem solving.
• Hold a Current, Full UK driving licence.

Our mix of benefits

For your health, we offer private medical insurance, income protection and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

Our lifestyle benefits include 25 days’ annual holiday (increasing with length of service up to 27) plus public holidays, your employee pension, share incentive plan, share ownership plan, life assurance and more!

You can access lots of gifts & discounts, including an allowance each year to spend on our brands in our staff shop, our reward & recognition scheme and employee discounts from a range of high street retailers.

We have regular events in our very own office bar, employee-run networks, a culture of flexibility and trust and a variety of tools and resources to help you focus on your wellbeing and mental fitness.

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion

People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as ‘Créateurs de Convivialité’.

We promote diversity and inclusion throughout our business and supply chain. In our teams, we proactively foster a diverse work force and an inclusive culture – an environment where we can truly be ourselves.