Occupational Health Technician

**Description**

**Occupational Health Technician**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Location: East Midlands and East Of England (you will allocated to your nearest Cadent Office)**

**Salary: £27727 - £32620 DOE**

**About the role**

As an Occupational Health Technician, you’ll play a key role in providing a professional Occupational Health & Wellbeing service to the business with, including effective and timely health surveillance service and advice to managers and colleagues.You’llbe part of a new in-house Occupational Health & Wellbeing team, bringing health directly to our employees. And, you’ll combine elements of health surveillance, ‘fit for work’ assessments, health education, administration, reporting data, risk assessments,physical agents monitoring and other health & wellbeing support activities. Also, you should be happy with frequent travel and regular overnight stays, driving to various locations throughout your Network.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Delivering a range of health surveillance and other occupational health & wellbeing activities, covering operational and non-operational colleagues, in line with current HSE guidance and company requirements
- Working autonomously and as part of the in-house team, able to flex and adapt, acting on feedback from the business, continuously improving and delivering a quality service to meet customer needs
- Advising on legislative health requirements and best practice in health and wellbeing, seeking opportunities for service improvement and innovation
- Delivering a service that promotes the optimum health and wellbeing of all colleagues across various locations
- Carrying out monitoring of physical agents and feedback findings to allow the SHE management team to enable better controls to be established
- Carrying out any other duties appropriate in accordance with business needs.

**About You**
- Valid UK Driving License
- Current training and competency in Audiometry, Respiratory and HAVs screening and general body metrics, BP/Vision/BMI
- Current knowledge of common public health topics and be able to deliver motivational consultations and provide evidence-based advice and information on Heart Disease, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, Diabetes, Common Cancers Alcohol & Drug use
- Experience of delivering peripatetic screening services with indirect supervision
- Good understanding of GDPR, Confidentiality and Data Privacy
- Computer literate with Microsoft packages and OH platforms
- Science or Sports & Exercise Degree or similar
- Experience with Orchid Live platform

**Benefits**

We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:

- Annual bonus
- Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
- Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:
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- hybrid working

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- flexible working

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- strong commitments to ED&I

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- generous family provision policies
- Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
- My Offers membership card - offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships

We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexiblestart/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.

**About Us**

At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energyWe’ve got a clear roadmap that will drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving its net zero targets by 2050.

We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers whom we put at the heart of everything we do.

**Diversity and Inclusion**
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We place great importance on equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our employee communities Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive (disability) and the Cadent MilitaryCommunity can’t wait to welcome you

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