Occupational Health Lead - UK & Ireland

Title: Occupational Health Lead - UK & Ireland

Locations: London or Edinburgh

Role Type: Permanent - Full time

Reports to: Global Head of Occupational Health, Wellbeing and Public Health

About us:

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

About You:

We are looking for an individual with an Occupational Health clinical background to drive to be the best: flexible in supporting the business, an excellent communicator and influencer, who possesses effective management skills supporting the business and ongoing management of our external Occupational Health 3rd party supplier(s) across UK and Ireland. The internal Occupational Health team deliver their services through a managed service provider and the role of the Occupational Health Manager is the key interface role between Diageo and the 3rd provider ensuring success and a productive relationship for Diageo.

Function:

The Occupational Health & Wellbeing (OHW) team are part of the Global Supply Chain and Procurement Human Resources function. The internal OH function comprises a small in-house team who work with our 3rd party providers to deliver the Occupational Health Strategy. Employee health and wellbeing sits at the heart of what we do; our purpose within the Occupational Health team is to enable our employees and ultimately our communities to live their best life. We know that being in an optimum state of health benefits each of us; therefore, we aim to have happy, healthy employees who celebrate life every day, everywhere.

About The Role:

• Support Responsibilities:
  • Review OH Management referral reports as required.
  • Oversee health and safety compliance for health surveillance/health assessment programmes.
  • Lead procurement efforts for OH provider tender processes.
  • Formulate annual health surveillance/assessment plans with OH providers.
• Operational Duties:
  • Act as main contact point between Diageo sites/functions and OH suppliers.
  • Monitor health surveillance schedules/reports.
  • Manage day-to-day OH operations resolving first-line issues.
• Collaborative Efforts:
  • Build strong relationships with internal collaborators (HRBPs/Legal/ER/Leaders).
  • Provide expert OH advice on investigations, case management queries etc.
• Educational Initiatives:
  • Deliver coaching sessions to upskill partners/customers.
• Performance Monitoring:
  • Ensure compliance with KPIs/SLAs by reviewing supplier performance reports.
• Innovation:
  • Identify new operating methods working closely with suppliers.
• Team Leadership:
  • Lead the team members through regular meetings, mentoring etc.
• Administrative Duties:
  • Oversee internal occupational health web pages including learning hub information ensuring they are up-to-date.
  • Manage joiners', movers', leavers' information accuracy for third-party service providers.

Experience Required / Skills / Capabilities / Languages:

Functional Skills:

• Experienced Senior Occupational Health Nurse registered on Part 1&3 of NMC (Nursing & Midwifery Council) professional register
• Supplier Management Experience
• Procurement/project/team management experience
• Bold decision-making ensuring project execution within agreed timelines
• Excellent communication skills building relationships with key collaborators
• Proficient in Microsoft Office particularly Excel

Diversity statement:

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

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