Occupational Health Nurse

Department: Occupational Health

Location: Kettering

Salary: £22,128 to £28,746 pa

As part of the Trust’s approach to staff health and wellbeing, we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated and occupational health nurse to participate in the development and maintenance of a full Occupational Health and Wellbeing service to the staff of Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and other contracted clients.

The post-holder, under the supervision of senior colleagues, will have day to day responsibility for a designated case load or external contract and will be expected to provide employees within this group with a comprehensive and confidential OH service, whilst working within his/her level of competency.

The ability to recognise the need to refer on to an OH Specialist, is an essential requirement of this post Excellent communication and team-working skills are required as well as knowledge of standard IT systems.

Contract demands may involve a requirement to work evenings, early mornings or nights on occasions.

For informal information please call (01536) 452347 and ask for Liz Robison, Head of Occupational Health and Wellbeing Services

In addition to the position offered, please be advised that you will automatically be enrolled onto our Staff Bank and will hold an additional assignment as a bank worker.

The offer of a Bank assignment will allow you to work additional hours on your own unit, and also the opportunity to undertake work flexibly across others areas of the Trust as and when it is available, and subject to the required grade and training requirements.

We welcome applications from people, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status or pregnancy or maternity status. We would encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. In particular, applications from disabled people (with both visible and non-visible disabilities), people from black and minority ethnic communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) people. NHFT is committed to building a diverse workforce, ensuring staff are treated fairly at work and ensuring all staff have the learning and development they need on equality in order to undertake their job role. We aim to use monitoring information provided by our staff and by job applicants to ensure that we do not discriminate in employment and to use this information to plan any Positive Action to address inequality. NHFT supports three staff equality networks to help us to develop our equality practice, as well as providing peer support for staff. These are: • NHFT Staff Disability & Allies Network • NHFT BME Staff Development Network • NHFT LGBT & Allies Network

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