Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri. Requirement to travel across service footprint and other locations as necessary.)
- Job ref
- 350-TWS6768822
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hollins Park House
- Town
- Winwick
- Salary
- £53,775 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/12/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Occupational Health & Wellbeing Lead Nurse Specialist
Band 8a
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
New Exciting Opportunity!
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our friendly multidisciplinary Team within the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Why?
We have recently completed a re-structure which has created new opportunities and roles.
We have secured a new operational service based at Hollins Park House, Winwick, Warrington and satellite units at Netherton Health Centre, Yew Tree Health Centre, and V7 Kings Business Park areas of Liverpool to support delivery of the service across the Trust’s footprint. We will also support opportunities for flexible working in line with operational demands.
Shortlisting planned for: 2 December 2024
Interview planned for: 12 December 2024
Main duties of the job
Who do we want?
We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic and experienced team player to apply for the role of Clinical OHW Lead Nurse Specialist, whose role will provide leadership and presence within the team and across our clinical/corporate Divisions.
If you are pro-active, dynamic, and motivated to support the development of the team/service, this job is for you!
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What does it involve?
The role involves working in collaboration with Clinical OHW Lead Nurse Specialist Colleagues as part of the team. Planning, delivering and ensuring the service remains safe, effective and provides a robust quality service. In addition to the leadership and management aspects of the role, the post holder will also be required to have a line management responsibilities and a proportionate clinical workload.
In addition to the Trust, you will be required to provide an expert and reliable Occupational Health Service to other paying private organisations, including other NHS employers and private companies/businesses.
The service uses Civica Occupational Health (OPAS-G2) software which supports all clinical functions.
Interested in joining our team? Apply now!
Please see full Job Description/Person Specification for more detail.
For further details / informal visits contact Zoe Sarangi, Strategic Lead.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working in Occupational Health Services
- Proven record of success in managing significant change whilst developing and maintaining the provision of a high-quality service
- Detailed knowledge of professional accountability and impact of NHS issues
- Importance of equality, diversity and rights
- Broad range of clinical experience in a range of settings, significant post registration experience at a senior level
- Experience of working to Dept of Health, Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health and Safety Executive requirements
- Experience of audit and clinical/service governance requirements
- Budgetary management experience
- Knowledge of current health & safety practice and legislation and infection control
- Experience in providing advice on sickness absence rehabilitation and fitness to work and the production of quality management reports
- Experience of delivering workplace immunisations
- Knowledge of blood borne viruses
- Knowledge of Occupational Health Service Standards for Accreditation (e.g. SEQOHS)
- Experience in initiation of appropriate blood tests following immunisation and to check immune status for infectious disease/blood borne viruses
- Knowledge of immunisation and biological immune response, especially to Hepatitis B
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Evidence of service development and change management
- Evidence of changes in practice using research and audit
Desirable criteria
- Experience in research, audit and monitoring of Occupational Health Services
- NHS Occupational Health Experience in Acute and/or Mental Health/Community Trust
- Familiarity with providing OH Services to commissioned contracts
- Demonstrable experience and direct involvement in service accreditation requirements e.g. SEQOHS
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to develop strategy, business reports and maintain a high standard of record keeping
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to manage a team of staff, including carrying out appraisals and personal development planning
- Able to work under pressure and to provide flexible responses and solutions to problem solving
- Well-developed influencing, negotiation and coaching skills
- Can demonstrate vision for the future development of Occupational Health Services
- Presents self in a professional manner
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload effectively
- Able to travel between the Trust sites as required
- Excellent communication skills in highly complex and difficult situations
- Complex and highly specialised skills relevant to occupational health
- Demonstrates specialist clinical expertise
- Ability to advise on Equality Act 2010 matters
- Demonstrable working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation
- Ability to make complex evidence-based decisions without protocols or guidance when necessary
- Demonstrable evidence of positive clinical leadership
- Production of policies, guidelines to meet legislation standards
- Ability to manage own workload and caseload, with minimal supervision
- Teaching and assessing skills
- People management skills
- IT skills/email/spreadsheet’s ability to create and present reports
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of innovative ways of working
Others
Essential criteria
- Good attendance record
- Ability to travel across sites to meet service requirements
- Ability to perform a wide range of duties according to the Job Description
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN (Level 1)
- OH qualification (part 3 of NMC register) and significant OH experience to demonstrate competence of OH clinical leadership and ability to work at OH specialist Nurse level
- Evidence of CPD in last 6 months
Desirable criteria
- National Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
- Relevant Leadership or Management Development Programme
- Master’s degree/ equivalent experience
- Evidence of post graduate level study at advanced specialist level
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Sarangi
- Job title
- Strategic Lead, OHW
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 664010
- Additional information
If you would like further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Zoe Sarangi. Alternatively contact: Andrea Snagg, Assistant Director at: [email protected]
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