Occupational Health Nurse Advisor

If you're interested and passionate about working as part of a team who cares about making a difference whilst providing exceptional services to clients and candidates, then join our Medacs Global Group family.

Medacs Healthcare is proud to be playing an integral part in delivering a new Functional Assessment Services contract on behalf of the UK Department for Work and Pensions. The contract will involve the delivery of more than 3.5 million health and disability assessments nationally.

The role of an Occupational Health Nurse Advisor will provide comprehensive health and safety services to employees within our client's organisations. This role involves assessing and supporting the management of workplace health risks, promoting health and wellness, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.

This role is a Part time role whereby we are looking for someone for a maximum of 4 days per week, and minimum 3 days per week. The days would include Tuesday and Thursday and would ideally be onsite, based at our Redcar site but we are open to considering a remote opportunity.

Here's some of the key responsibilities:

• Conduct pre-employment assessments for new employees, identifying potential risks and providing advice on any adjustments required
• Undertake comprehensive management referrals, complex case and absence management, writing concise, evidence-based reports for HR/management
• Identify, mitigate and communicate potential health conditions caused by work, through the effective undertaking of health surveillance
• Deliver immunisation programmes in line with our client's industry standards and recommendations, including phlebotomy and up to date anaphylaxis knowledge
• Undertake drug and alcohol screening
• Support our OH physicians in the delivery of their onsite clinics
• Conduct workplace risk assessments, providing recommendations for any corrective actions and ongoing maintenance in line with relevant legislation
• Support our clients via workplace health education
• Coordinate with external healthcare providers and specialists.
• Conduct health and wellness workshops and training sessions
• Ensure compliance with occupational health and safety regulations
• Maintain practice standards in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council professional standards and codes of conduct, legislation and best practice, so that the highest standards of professionalism are adhered to.
• Maintain record systems in accordance with legislation and organisational requirements.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years occupational health experience
• Case management experience, including management referrals, complex cases and absence management
• Evidence-based report writing skills, communicating findings effectively to HR/management
• Evidenced experience in managing demanding situations with internal and external stakeholders.
• Evidence of professional registration and continuous professional development
• It would be desirable to have a Degree/diploma in occupational health

WHY MEDACS:

When joining you will have access to a range of benefits that we have on offer:

• Salary up to 45k - (Full time equivalent) basic plus 10% annual bonus
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days with length of service plus public holidays and your birthday off (Pro Rata)
• Paid volunteering day
• Company pension and life assurance
• Wellbeing support through an Employee Assistance Programme
• Reward and recognition awards

ABOUT US:

MGG have operations across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Middle East, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

The MGG family is welcoming, innovative, and empowering. Some of our staff have been with MGG for over 20 years who have a wealth of knowledge and experience to share with those who are new to the healthcare recruitment sector. We believe that if we treat our own people well, our clients and candidates will receive the best possible service from our people.

To ensure you have the best experience with us, please let us know if we can make any adjustments to our application or interview process and feel free to note in your application which pronouns you use. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from candidates with a disability and commit to interview these candidates if their application meets the minimum criteria for the role - just tell us when applying.

To ensure you have the best experience with us, please let us know if we can make any adjustments to our application or interview process and feel free to note in your application which pronouns you use.

We consider ourselves to be an equitable employer which celebrates diversity and encourages inclusion. Our ongoing commitments to Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion means we recognise candidates may want to anonymise their cv during the application process, if you wish to do this, you are welcome to do so.

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