Occupational Health Technician

The purpose of this role is simple but vital: to support the delivery of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement. As part of our Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service, you will help us provide a safe, effective, confidential and compassionate service to Trust staff and external clients.

You will carry out a defined range of clinical, health surveillance, screening and administrative duties under clinical supervision, working within Trust policies, professional standards and agreed competencies. This role requires excellent communication, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work sensitively with staff who may be anxious, unwell or distressed.

Key Responsibilities:

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Understanding of confidentiality and data protection
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Basic IT skills, and accurate data entry/record keeping skills
• Professional, reliable and conscientious
• Empathetic and approachable manner
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Hold a full UK drivers' licence and confident to travel to external sites

Desirable

• Ability to reassure and support anxious clients

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 in healthcare or equivalent qualification, or equivalent relevant experience
• Venepuncture qualification
• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Desirable

• Vaccination training
• Health surveillance training

Further Training

Essential

• Willingness to undertake Trust-approved training and competencies

Desirable

• Interest in occupational health & wellbeing

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a healthcare or clinical support role
• Awareness of health and safety procedures
• Knowledge of infection prevention and control principles
• Ability to organise own workload and work flexibly

Desirable

• Experience in an occupational health setting
• Experience using electronic clinical record systems
• Experience with OH databases OPAS G2
• Experience supporting vaccination or screening programmes
• Ability to support service audits and evaluations

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Ability to follow protocols and standard operating procedures
• Commitment to confidentiality and professional standards

About the employer

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.