Occupational Health Nurse Occupational Health Therapist

Our client is a successful and well-established manufacturing company with sites nationwide. They are currently looking for an Occupational Health Nurse / Occupational Health Advisor to join them. This vacancy will be on-site at Chippenham, and may have occasional travel to Ireland and other UK sites for cover (this will be rare, a pool car is available for transport if needed). Due to the variety of shift patterns that the company employees do, you must have some flexibility to change your standard shift pattern to cover the needs of the 24/7 workforce. This will of course be notified in advance, with flexibility around coverage. Salary depending on experience (to be confirmed). Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week, flexibility on shift coverage is required. Responsibilities: As the Occupational Health Advisor with the assistance of the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Manager and Physician you will be responsible for supporting the business to grow by providing a quality professional portfolio of services that best meets and matches the business requirements. The main duties and responsibilities of your role are to: - To work closely in conjunction with the HS&E team, line managers and the People Team to provide a proactive and effective occupational health service to the business. - To work as an independent practitioner and be able to provide professional specialist advice and support to the Business. - To conduct health assessments with referred employees and consequently provide timely and clear advice and recommendations to line management, people team and employees. - To provide and manage surveillance and fitness to work programmes in relation to a variety of legislative and best practice needs such as audiology, blood lead, spirometry, night worker assessments and any other relevant types of surveillance. This list is not exhaustive. - To assist in the development of Company surveillance programmes and health/wellbeing/awareness campaigns