Senior Occupational Health Advisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Senior Occupational Health Advisor to join the Employee Wellbeing Service at Barts Health. The role involves providing a comprehensive occupational health service, focusing on case management of management referrals and offering quality, evidence-based reports. You will also undertake clinics, provide immunisations, phlebotomy, and monitor blood-borne viruses. The position includes line management responsibilities for a small team of occupational health staff.
Essential criteria
- 2 years occupational health experience post OH qualification or equivalent.
- Health care setting, audit and use of evidence based practice.
- Sickness absence/return to work assessments.
- Experience of managing people
- Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills.
Desirable criteria
- Management or leadership qualification
- Experience in writing reports and collating statistics using excel
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Proven ability to deal effectively with difficult and sensitive issues
- Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good skills in dispute resolution
- Previous line management experience
- Microsoft word and power point Microsoft Excel
- Current OH issues within the NHS
- Health and Safety legislation
- People Management Processes
- Registered Nurse (Adult)
- Occupational Health
- Certificate/Diploma/BSc or equivalent
- Management qualification
- Evidence of OH post qualification study at BSc/MSc level
- Effective communication for people management
- Spirometery Qualification
- Audiology Qualification
- 2 years occupational health experience post OH qualification or equivalent.
- Health care setting, audit and use of evidence based practice.
- Sickness absence/return to work assessments.
- Experience of managing people
- Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills.
- Management or leadership qualification
- Experience in writing reports and collating statistics using excel
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Proven ability to deal effectively with difficult and sensitive issues
- Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good skills in dispute resolution
- Previous line management experience
- Microsoft word and power point Microsoft Excel
- Current OH issues within the NHS
- Health and Safety legislation
- People Management Processes
- Registered Nurse (Adult)
- Occupational Health
- Certificate/Diploma/BSc or equivalent
- Management qualification
- Evidence of OH post qualification study at BSc/MSc level
- Effective communication for people management
- Spirometery Qualification
- Audiology Qualification
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.
Posted 12d ago · Closes in 5d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Barts Health NHS Trust
Senior Occupational Health Advisor
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
We have a great opportunity for a Band 7 senior Occupational Health Advisor to join us at the Employee wellbeing Service at Barts Health. You will be working with an established, friendly team that offers an innovative model to preventative health for all Barts staff.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team of occupational health specialists.
- Work flexibly remotely and occasionally onsite
- You will have the opportunity to undertake clinics (consulting with staff on their new roles and ensuring that they have the correct immunisations requirements).
- Providing immunisations
- Phlebotomy
- Monitoring of blood borne virus'
- Complete Health surveillance. Training or updates can be provided
- Be a case manager for management referrals, including complex dependent on experience. Current model if for no more than 6 management referrals per day
- Take part in peer audit with regular access to teaching from experienced OHAs
- Have access to clinical supervision and a multi-disciplinary team
- To provide line management responsibilities to a small group of occupational health staff.
Main duties of the job
To participate in an efficient, effective, comprehensive, high-quality Occupational Health service using evidence based Occupati
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