Senior Occupational Health Advisor

You will be able to deliver evidence-based occupational health services to all Trust employees and contracted services, whilst providing clinical leadership, professional support and education across the Occupational Health Service, whilst ensuring compliance with responsibilities associated with Health & Safety legislation and maximising and promoting the health of all employees. The ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities and build effective working relationships, whilst demonstrating a commitment to continuous improvement, innovation and high standards of care is essential.

Working autonomously within your scope of professional practice, as a senior nurse within the team you will manage a varied and complex clinical caseload, providing specialist occupational health assessments, management referral consultations, health surveillance, immunisation programmes; which meet the vaccination and immunisation framework and fitness for work advice, whilst supporting staff health, safety & wellbeing. Ultimately, contributing to the development of high-quality, safe and effective services that supports clinical governance, workforce development and quality improvement.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities of this role, please see the job description and person specification attached.

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

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