SYP – Occupational Health Nurse – January 2022

SYP – Occupational Health Nurse

Role: Occupational Health Nurse

Department: Occupational Health

Location:  Ecclesfield, Sheffield

Salary: Band E £30,777 - £35,484

Hours: 30 per week

Contract Type: Fixed term for 18 months

Role Purpose:

The Occupational Health nurse resides within the Wellbeing Team and is critical to the core function of the overall wellbeing service. The Occupational Health Nurse role is required to deliver a range of OH services to SYP, involving, pre-employment assessments, police officer recruit pre-employment screening, fitness for work medicals, vaccinations, management of contamination incidents, statutory health surveillance and other services as required. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the OH nurse will be able to provide advice to individuals and their managers appropriately so that risks are properly managed and to signpost individuals to the support they need to ensure ongoing medical fitness for the specialist roles they are employed to undertake.

Key responsibilities include the following:

• With supervision and support deliver pre-employment medicals and mandatory medicals for police officers and staff and be responsible for liaising with other areas of the force to ensure periodic medicals are undertaken within agreed timescales to maintain frontline operational policing.
• Under the supervision of an OHA, deliver health surveillance programmes, being competent in spirometry, audiometry and immunisations and venepuncture.
• Under the supervision of an OHA demonstrate good understanding and practical application of relevant health and safety regulations associated with noise, HAVS, lead and occupational asthma and know when to escalate cases of concern.
• Under the supervision of an OHA, be able to interpret legislation, policies and procedures to meet SYP requirements for OH provision
• Assist in protecting the health of South Yorkshire Police officers and staff by undertaking hepatitis B immunisations and carrying out venepuncture as part of the duties pertaining to delivering a vaccination schedule.

Skills and experience:

• Qualified Registered General Nurse
• Experience in delivery of immunisations, and venepuncture
• Experience and competence in audiometry and spirometry is preferable, but not essential as training can be provided.
• Ability to manage a challenging workload
• Thorough understanding and application of professional regulatory frameworks, and adherence to confidentiality and appropriate use of data

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and agile working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
• Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
• Paid Professional Subscriptions when relevant to role
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities
• Generous pension scheme
• Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

• Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

All tattoos and piercings must be in line with South Yorkshire Police’s Appearance and Standards policy.  Tattoos visible on your face, neck, hands or head are not permitted.  Any tattoos which could be deemed inappropriate or cause offence will also not be accepted.  If you have tattoos, you will need to make a declaration at the time of application.

Closing Date:

Monday 31st January 2022 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made with the Talent Acquisition Manager, Recruitment and the Line Manager for the role.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Sara Addison on 07469 412686.  Please do not contact this number for an application form.

Further Information:

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Diversity & Inclusion:

South Yorkshire Police welcome applications from under-represented communities.  For further information on diversity and inclusion within South Yorkshire Police, please visit the diversity and inclusion page:

https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/sign-up/join-team-syp/diversity-in-the-force/

Apply for the role:

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Note to candidates:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage, the relevant internal or external pre-employment checks are required.  These include vetting clearance or review, prior to being appointed to the new role and start date being agreed.

Internal Secondments:

To apply for this post as a secondment, you must have the support of your current Line Manager. This should be sent via email to the Hiring Line Manager.  Please ensure that the role title and the closing date are stated in the subject of your email.

Without support, your application will not be considered any further.