Senior Occupational Health Advisor: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job summary

We have a great opportunity for a Band 7 senior Occupational Health Advisor to join us at the Employee wellbeing Service at Barts Health. You will be working with an established, friendly team that offers an innovative model to preventative health for all Barts staff.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team of occupational health specialists.

  • Work flexibly remotely and occasionally onsite
  • You will have the opportunity to undertake clinics (consulting with staff on their new roles and ensuring that they have the correct immunisations requirements).
    • Providing immunisations
    • Phlebotomy
    • Monitoring of blood borne virus’
  • Complete Health surveillance. Training or updates can be provided
  • Be a case manager for management referrals, including complex dependent on experience. Current model if for no more than 6 management referrals per day
  • Take part in peer audit with regular access to teaching from experienced OHAs
  • Have access to clinical supervision and a multi-disciplinary team
  • To provide line management responsibilities to a small group of occupational health staff.

Main duties of the job

To participate in an efficient, effective, comprehensive, high-quality Occupational Health service using evidence based Occupational Health.

To provide Occupational Health Advisors services including the full remit of occupational health needs. The role will predominately be focused on case management of management referrals, with an emphasis on providing quality, evidence-based reports to allow managers to provide support to staff with reasonable adjustments. The post holder will ensure a proactive comprehensive service is provided and delivered to the highest standard and support the delivery to Barts Health NHS Trust and associated external contracts.

The post holder is also required to work with other senior occupational health advisors, to implement and monitor policies, standards and guidelines within the Barts Health NHS Trust service. To provide line management responsibilities to a small group of occupational health staff.The Specialist Practitioners are required to act as a professional leader to the team and to encourage and maintain a supportive and learning environment, where there is a focus on lifelong learning and reflective practice. The senior occupational health advisor will have line management responsibilities for the occupational health advisors. They will also deal with the complex management referrals.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 2 years occupational health experience post OH qualification or equivalent.
  • Health care setting, audit and use of evidence based practice.
  • Sickness absence/return to work assessments.
  • Experience of managing people
  • Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills.

Desirable

  • Management or leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in writing reports and collating statistics using excel
  • Leadership and influencing skills
  • Proven ability to deal effectively with difficult and sensitive issues
  • Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Good skills in dispute resolution

Desirable

  • Previous line management experience

Knowledge

Essential

  • Microsoft word and power point Microsoft Excel
  • Current OH issues within the NHS
  • Health and Safety legislation

Desirable

  • People Management Processes

Skills

Essential

  • Registered Nurse (Adult)
  • Occupational Health
  • Certificate/Diploma/BSc or equivalent
  • Management qualification
  • Evidence of OH post qualification study at BSc/MSc level
  • Effective communication for people management

Desirable

  • Spirometery Qualification
  • Audiology Qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 11 September 2026

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