Occupational Health Technician

RPS Group; Derby; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Health Technician at RPS Group, focusing on health screening, wellness promotion, and delivering top-tier services across the Midlands and beyond. This role involves substantial travel and requires candidates to be adaptable, proactive, and capable of working independently while maintaining quality standards. Join a supportive team committed to fostering professional development in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career development opportunities

Comprehensive training and support

Qualifications

• Previous Occupational Health experience is preferred.
• Competent IT skills with MS Office and electronic medical records.
• Must hold a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Conduct health surveillance and fitness for work screenings.
• Drive mobile screening units across the UK and Ireland.
• Perform health promotion and wellbeing medicals.

Skills

Health surveillance

Fitness for work medicals

Drug & alcohol testing

Competent IT user

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We have exciting opportunity for an Occupational Health Technician to join our team. The vacancy is predominantly to cover the Midlands area. There will be frequent requirement to travel further afield with prior notice and regular overnight stays.You will ensure the delivery of class leading service, conducting health surveillance, fitness for work health screening and health promotion to clients. The work is delivered at in a suitable room on client sites or from mobile screening units or RPS Clinics.

The salary for this role will be £25,000 - £27,000 per annum, with the option for overtime to take you to around £30,000 per annum.

Who we are
Join RPS Occupational Health, a dynamic workplace that prioritisesemployee support and development. Our team fosters a culture of trust, respect,and collaboration, with shared goals for individual and company success.
We emphasise quality over quantity, limiting case management assessmentsto six per day for manageable workloads and superior service, boosting staff moraleand retaining our staff for the long term. With extensive induction, ongoingtraining, and peer support, our staff excel as trusted experts, empowered tomake decisions autonomously.
Enjoy excellent reward packages, a diverse and inclusive culture, andample opportunities for career advancement within our organisation, includinginternal promotions where possible. Experience flexible working arrangementsand a supportive community culture, while tackling a variety of work withnationwide clients. Join our team of Occupational Health professionals anddiscover why we're the top choice in our field.
We’re RPS, our projects are all around you. Wedefine,designand manage projects that create shared value to acomplex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. Weneed people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. Andwhere you’ll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come tobuild a career.

What you’ll be doing

• Audiometry and Spirometry
• Skin assessments and Hand Arm Vibration (Tier 1 & 2)
• Fitness for work medicals (. driver, working at height medicals or vision screening)
• Drug & alcohol testing
• Venepuncture
• Wellbeing medical and health promotion
• Driving a mobile screening unit Nationwide (including UK & Ireland)
  

Who we’re lookingfor

• Previous Occupational Health experience inc. health surveillance and/or fitness for work medicals
  
• Able to complete overnight stays and extensive travel throughout the UK (overnight stays maybe Monday – Friday depending on client requirements)
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Experience and/or willingness to drive vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes
• Competent IT user (MS office suite and/or electronic medical records systems)
• Ability to work autonomously

What’s in it for you?
We support our people to innovate, collaborate and build meaningfulcareers. Here you’ll find true support andencouragement. We’re an accredited training provider and we supportlearning and development for everyone. A personal development planand a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your careerand you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

RPS, a Tetra Tech company
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is aleading global provider of consulting and engineering services. As aTetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market leading developmentand project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complexproblems.

What happens next?
If we feel you are a good match you will have an initial chat with oneof our clinical staff. If we still feel we could work together youwill then be booked in for a more formal competency-based interview.
If this opportunity suits your career journey, we’d love to hear fromyou. All applications will be considered.Ready to apply? Please have yourCV ready and continue with your applicationonline.#LI-SY1

Our commitment to Diversityand Inclusion
Mindful that a truly inclusiveorganization must make appropriate use of talent on a global basis and withoutunnecessary barriers, we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusionprinciples in all People processes in order to be as diverse as the communitiesand clients we work with, thereby securing, developing, and retaining the bestavailable talent for the company’s future.

Our approach to Diversityand inclusion
Our people live our purpose,deliver our promise, and demonstrate our behaviours every day. Our behavioursdefine who we are. Developed by our people, they underpin everything that wedo. They create the memorable experiences we are known for and make RPS a greatplace to do great work.
‘Stronger Together’ is one ofour five core behaviours and it is inherent in creating an inclusive workplace:
‘We are respectful,acknowledge diversity, and recognise the potential and contribution ofeveryone. We bring out the best in one another, always assuming best intent.People who learn and grow thrive in our business, sharing in our success.’

Recruitment Agencies
We have a Preferred Supplier List oftrusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge anyspeculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not onthis list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require anyfurther information.