Occupational Health Practice Nurse

Department

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of the Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing (WHSW) department, a friendly, proactive and committed team of in-house occupational health and health and safety professionals.

The WHSW team at the University of Essex aims to:

• Provide advice and support on health and safety matters across the University
• Prevent work-related ill health
• Facilitate rehabilitation and return to work following periods of illness or injury
• Promote physical and mental health and wellbeing
• To ensure fitness to commence course and placement for health care students

Occupational Health actively promotes and supports the University community to maintain good health in the workplace as well as providing support when health issues occur.

Duties of the Role

This is a campus-based role. The post holder will be responsible for delivering, in partnership with the rest of the Workplace, Health Safety and Wellbeing (WHSW) team, to provide a professional, high quality, occupational health provision to Health Care students. This would include delivery of a vaccination programme, completing pre-course health assessments, advice for students on placement, as well as leading on health promotion activities.

Experience and Qualifications Required

The post holder should be able to coordinate and deliver an Occupational Health programme, carrying out preplacement health screening and fitness for course assessments for health care students at our Southend and Colchester campuses. They will also coordinate and deliver a vaccination and phlebotomy programme for health care students in advance of placements and liaise with the relevant schools and placement teams. They will also support the promotion of health and wellbeing initiatives in the University. This will include health checks, weight management programmes, menopause support and smoking cessation.

The postholder will need to have excellent interpersonal skills in working within the team and supporting staff and students that we provide a service for. They should be computer literate and able to manage and organise their own workload, determining operational priorities in order to optimise service delivery. 

Applicants should be a qualified registered nurse and hold current registration with the NMC.

Please use the 'Apply' button to read further information about this role including the full job description and person specification which outlines the full duties, skills, qualifications and experience needed for this role. You will also find details of how to make your application here.

Our website http://www.essex.ac.uk contains more information about the University of Essex. If you have a disability and would like information in a different format, please email resourcing@essex.ac.uk.

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