Senior Occupational Health Advisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This temporary Senior Occupational Health Advisor role supports the delivery and development of occupational health services within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The position involves taking a leading role in maintaining audit processes, data analysis, and ensuring compliance with SEQOHS accreditation requirements. It offers professional development within a high-performing, award-winning team, covering a period of maternity leave.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out nursing procedures.
- Deliver core OH clinical services, including managing your own caseload, health clearances, and duty-nurse activities.
- Support junior members of the clinical and administrative teams.
- Maintain routine clinical audit activity necessary for OH quality standards and safe practice.
- Lead on process review, development, roll-out, and associated training for ongoing safe and effective clinical practice.
- Update clinical guidelines to ensure the delivery of best OH practice and currency.
Essential criteria
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- Specialist Occupational Health Qualification
- Part 3 NMC Register: SCPHN
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- 3 years+ wide range of OH nursing including 1 year+ NHS OH experience
- 2 year+ OH Team Leader / Mentor / Manager
- [contact details removed] knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Qualification Diploma / Degree in Health & Safety, Wellbeing / Health Promotion / Business Management
- 5 years OH experience including 3 years+ NHS OH experience
- Experience and understanding of the SEQOHS accreditation process and revised standards, or willingness to undertake SEQOHS training to develop the required knowledge.
- Project management
- Leadership skills
- Project management skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
ICHNT understands the importance of ensuring good staff health and wellbeing, to individual and Trust success, and ultimately to positive patient outcomes.
Working in a well-resourced multi-disciplinary OH team, across a period of maternity leave, the incumbent of this temporary position will support occupational health service delivery, and development, and take a leading role in the maintenance of the established audit processes and associated data collection & analysis, as well as ensuring the annual quality standard \[SEQOHS\] requirements and ongoing accreditation.
Although significant topic-related understanding and experience is required, this role offers the right person an opportunity for professional development within a high-performing award-winning team.
Main duties of the job
- You will maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out nursing procedures.
- Responsible for the safe custody of medication, including checking and administration.
- Ensure compliance with our clinical governance framework, you will motivate colleagues, champion service user safety and dignity and drive continuous improvement.
- Deliver core OH clinical services undertaken by all ICHNT OH B7 SNR OHAs, including own caseload, health clearances and duty-nurse activities.
- Support junior members of the clinical team, and the administrative team, as required.
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