Senior Occupational Health Advisor - Band 7

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, part of the Lincolnshire Community & Hospital Group (LCHG), seeks a Senior Occupational Health Specialist Nurse Practitioner (Senior Occupational Health Advisor) with a post-registration degree or master's in occupational health to join its established occupational health senior clinical team. Applicants should have significant occupational health experience, including previous NHS work, and strong communication and interpersonal skills.

The Corporate HR department’s Occupational Health Service which recently achieved SEQOHS accreditation, comprises a multidisciplinary team of Occupational Health Consultants, Specialist Nurse Practitioners, clinic nurses, technicians, counsellors, and medical administrators. The service supports our host trust, the wider NHS community in Lincolnshire, as well as a growing number of external clients.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit, contact:

David Thornhill – Head of Occupational Health

d.thornhill@nhs.net

Key Elements of the role.

• Provision of leadership and line management responsibility to the Occupational health clinical team
• Provide the full range of Occupational Health Services to trust employees, other NHS organisations and external clients
• Provide comprehensive advice & reports advising on all aspects of Occupational Health; including sickness absence and case management/return to work advice for employees referred to the service by managers & HR
• Maintain effective communication with client's, managers and other professional groups within the organisation and to external clients
• Support the department with its SEQOHS accreditation
• Experience of leading on clinical audit
• Experience of the reviewing and writing of departmental standard operating procedures
  
  

We are a paper light department so excellent IT skills are a must, and you will also need to be comfortable communicating with clients both face to face but also virtually e.g. telephone and emails.

Our departments are based at Lincoln County Hospital, Pilgrim Hospital Boston & Grantham and district hospital and you will work from one of these locations. However, you must be willing to travel to cover meetings and occasional clinics at external locations.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provid

es all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: David Thornhill Job title: Head of Occupational Health Email address: d.thornhill@nhs.net Telephone number: 01522 573597