Occupational Health Manager
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South Wales Police brings together thousands of people with the same aim – to keep South Wales safe.
We want to be the best at understanding and responding to our community’s needs. To do this we need the very best candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to become part of our policing family.
We are looking for someone to #JoinUs as an Occupational Health Manager. You will provide clinical leadership and facilitate ongoing professional development across the team of experienced Occupational Health professionals. Could you be who we are looking for?
You will bring fresh ideas and explore unique ways of developing the service as well as ensure compliance with OH standards of operational practice. Your role will play a major part of our on-going commitment to support police officers and staff to be healthy, safe and well.
About the team/Department you will be joining:
Utilising a wide range of skill sets you will act as the focal point to lead the day to day clinical activities of OH Practitioners who work autonomously in the unit, remotely and out on site. They undertake a wide range of duties which can extend from undertaking pre-employment medicals, health surveillance and health screening, administering vaccinations, assessing fitness for work, health promotion, client consultations, general and routine attendance management through to complex case management.
This wide range of tasks means that you will have an excellent opportunity to provide both strategic and management support to the Head of Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing including deputising and delegated leadership responsibility for core areas of work across the expanded team. Attend leadership and management meetings as required. You will engage with multi-disciplinary teams delivering police specific programmes, lead occupational health initiatives, scope, prepare and present business cases that support the Health and Wellbeing Strategy and National Police Occupational Health Standards. You will liaise with other medical practitioners to ensure high quality OH standards of practice.
About the role and your key responsibilities:
You will lead the continuous improvement of occupational health services in a high risk environment, setting and maintaining appropriate standards for service provision and establishing effective systems of delivery of the clinical service. You will need to plan for changes to service demand and allocate resources accordingly. You will manage the arrangements for the collection of health data, efficiency and development of the electronic occupational health system to enable better health decisions to be made both by OH and by the organisation.
You will oversee OH projects, manage response to BBV exposure and other infection control outbreaks and oversee the clinical aspects of the SMP/IRMP process in collaboration with the OH Support Officer, ensuring efficient management of these cases. You will also ensure the team are working towards achieving the enhanced police occupational health standards, that the practitioners achieve compliance with regulatory CPD requirements, as well as ensure appropriate clinical governance and auditing arrangements.
You will engage with external and internal practitioners, interacting with colleagues including HR and Chief Officers who will often look to Occupational Health to support them with a wide range of cases.
Undertaking benchmarking with other forces and organisations to provide a better understanding of what the role entails in order that we can deliver our services proactively, as well as tailoring our services to meet specific organisational and operational needs.
Working within the boundaries of confidentiality, close working relationships are nurtured to support employment practices that ensure workers are medically fit to carry out their role safely.
What skills and experience do we need you to bring to the role:
You must be a State Registered Nurse/Registered General Nurse and will ideally possess the MSc/BSc in Occupational Health or OH Diploma.
You must have post qualification experience in a clinical setting along with proven ability to practically apply medical knowledge and experience within a complex organisation with specialist requirements
There are numerous benefits to working for South Wales Police, from learning and development opportunities to schemes which aim to improve your lifestyle and wellbeing, as well as generous Local Government Pension Scheme / Police Pension Schemes, paid annual leave, flexible working and family friendly policies and many more, click here for more information.
South Wales Police is currently underrepresented with candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds. As a result, we are able to offer Positive Action support in all aspects of our recruitment process to candidates that identify as minority ethnic, click here for more information.
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The successful Candidate must be willing to undergo vetting to MV/SC Vetting.
Please note, if you are an internal candidate and subject to an ongoing PSD investigation, your appointment or placement in the role may be delayed pending an outcome. Whether the role is held open will be considered on a case-by-case basis