Proactive Occupational Health Screening Nurse

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

The Screening Nurse will work within the Health Work and Wellbeing (HWWB) service providing impartial, evidence based, confidential, pro‑active Health, Work and Wellbeing services that support the Lead Employer, trust staff, and external customers. You will support the HWWB team in providing effective, appropriate needs based occupational health activities aimed at optimising health and preventing work related ill health. The post holder must provide a proactive evidence based health and well‑being service for all members of staff, working to national guidelines and benchmarks in order to maintain staff well‑being both physical and psychological.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme