Occupational Health Adviser

3 weeks ago


Caernarfon, United Kingdom Gwynedd Council Full time

Reference:
23-25680

Job title:
Occupational Health Adviser

Directorate:
Corporate Support

Service:
Health, Safety and Welfare

Closing date:
07/12/2023 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Temporary eight months | 22.2 Hour

Salary:
£22,401 - £23,511 a year

Pay Scale:
PS1

Location(s):
Caernarfon

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this **Information Pack**

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please contact** Gail Warrinton **on** 01286 679083**

Interview date to be confirmed.

Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

**CLOSING DATE**:10.00 AM, 07/12/2023**

**_

Information Pack Corporate Support.pdf

**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:

- Good communication skills able to demonstrate progressiveness
- Work flexibly with a team framework
- Committed to achievement and able recognise opportunities to improve the service

**Desirable**:
**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:

- Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the register
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development

**Desirable**:

- Diploma in Occupational Health Nursing
- Training qualification

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:

- Minimum two years post registration experience
- Experience of delivering evidence based clinical practice in a previous post
- Multi-disciplinary experience

**Desirable**:

- Experience of working in Occupational Health
- Experience in delivering presentations and / or training sessions
- Experience of conducting audits
- Training and mentoring experience
- Experience of policy development and / or leading on projects
- Past involvement in health promotion initiatives

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:

- Full understanding on NMC code of Practice and clinical governance arrangements
- Good inter-personal skills and able to deal sensitively with individuals who are suffering physical or psychological illness
- Work effectively under pressure
- Solid presenting skills
- Solid computing skills to include the Microsoft Office package

**Desirable**:

- The understanding on health and safety regulations in relation to health surveillance

**Language requirements**:
**Listening and Speaking - Higher**:
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.

**Reading and Understanding - Higher**:
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.

**Writing - Higher**:
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).

**Purpose of the post**:

- Provide an occupational health advisory service internally to the Council and external clients by promoting and implementing return to work plans, take responsibility for providing professional and expert advice on matters relating to sickness absence.
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.

**Responsibility for functions**:

- Supervision of professional aspects (only) of the work of the Occupational Health Officer.

**Main duties**:

- Work as part of a small team to structure, screen referrals and prioritise the work of the Occupational Health Unit ensuring that the internal needs of the Council as well as external contracts are met.
- Contribute towards assessing all the occupational health requirements of the Council as well as any other organsiation that the Unit provides service to, and undertake a pivotal role in the planning, implementing and evaluation of the arrangements in place.
- Advise managers and staff at all levels within the organisations on occupational health matters whilst referring appropriate cases to the Occupational Health Physician.
- Supervise the clinical aspects (only) of the Occupational Health Officer’s work.
- Undertake assessments of staff members’ medical condition when absent from work whilst regularly monitoring progress.
- Assist managers to undertake risk assessments involving dangers to occupational health.
- Conduct check on pre-employment questionnaires and come to conclusions on prospective staff’s medical condition.
- Support staff within the workplace or on their return to work by advising individuals and managers as appropriate whilst avoiding attempting to provide medical care usually undertkaen by the General Practitioner.
- Organize and implement health surveillance program.
- Ca



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