Lead Nurse / Senior Occupational Health Nurse Adviso

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be Lead Nurse in occupational health for the Luton and Dunstable Hospital site in providing an impartial, confidential and expert Occupation Health Service to the staff and managers. To provide an expert and reliable Occupational Health Service to other paying private organisations, including other NHS employers, private companies/businesses. To assist the Occupational Health Manager through the provision of operational leadership and advancing clinical practice in line with DH guidelines and legislation.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RN - 1st level • NMC OH Specialist nurse qualification (cert/dip/degree). • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development to post graduate level or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• NEBOSH Cert. • Counselling Cert. • Experience of Line Management/ Team Leadership

Experience

Essential criteria

• Good range of substantial experience working as an OH nurse and taking a lead role in delivering an Occupational Health Service to a large complex organisation. • Presentation and teaching experience. • Proven ability to plan and organise complex activities and occupational health programmes.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in private industry as an OHN • Experience of working as part of multidisciplinary team • Good experience of leading and carrying out audits

Communication

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate at all levels and ability to communicate with all patients/staff addressing barriers to communication (e.g. language, special needs/learning difficulties) • Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information in relation to medical conditions • Ability to negotiate and be persuasive • Excellent reassurance skills • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• job description OH band 7.docx (PDF, 240.6KB)
• person spec. docx (PDF, 152.4KB)
• 2023 Functional Aspects 2. docx (PDF, 152.4KB)
• Getting to the L&D (PDF, 8.5KB)
• Hospital site map (PDF, 232.8KB)
• Disclosure & Barring Information (PDF, 4.9KB)
• Recruitment of Ex Offenders (PDF, 72.6KB)