Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner

Job type: Full time

Hours: 40 Hours per week, mainly late or night shift – Some flexibility available

Location: Leicestershire

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 depending on skills and experience

The Role

The Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for providing occupational health advice ensuring compliance with legislation to employees in all areas. A collaborative, pragmatic person who can adopt and reflect the company’s culture that has helped to make it the successful, growing business it is today.

Main Responsibilities:

• Undertaking health surveillance such as lung function testing and audiometry testing, depending on the hazards within a role.
• Arranging clinic lists and data input to OH software system.
• Receive, interpret and manage highly complex health information from employees, managers and/or HR which may lead to restrictions being placed on an employee’s job role.
• Communicate this information to non-clinical employees in a clear and understandable way.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner offering specialist advice to both managers and staff.
• Supporting risk management and reduction relating to health.
• Helping to identify and prevent work-related ill health
• Assessing the impact of work or tasks on people’s health

About You

Our client is looking for someone who shows up every day to do their best. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.

• Must be a team player and happy to work autonomously.
• Self-motivated and proactive can be left to their own devices.
• Focussed on delivering the tasks, not just identifying what should be done.
• Working on your initiative to complete and deliver.
• Simplistic approach. We like to keep things simple but effective.
• If at first, you don’t succeed. You will adapt and find a way to overcome.
• Solution focused.
• Must have the ability to interact with all levels of people, from the board of directors to a new factory operative.

Skills and Experience

• Have a current NMC registration
• Preferable to hold a degree/diploma in Occupational Health
• Have least 3 years’ experience in Occupational Health
• Have significant recent experience in health surveillance testing and interpretation
• Have experience in case management