Occupational Health Technician

Job Title Occupational Health Technician (health and wellbeing)

Overall Purpose of job

The overall purpose of this job is to provide a professional occupational health service to the business, including effective and timely health surveillance service and provide advice to managers and colleagues. You will be part of a new in-house occupational health and wellbeing team, that is bringing health surveillance directly to our employees.

Deliver a range of health surveillance activities and other key occupational health requirements to the wider workforce, covering industrial and non-industrial employees, in line with current HSE guidance and company requirements

Work as part of the in-house team, being agile, acting on feedback from the business, continuously improving and delivering a quality service to meet customer requirements

Advise on legislative health requirements and health and wellbeing in general

Carry out monitoring of physical agents and feedback findings to allow the SHE management team to enable better controls to be established

Health Surveillance and Fit for Work assessments

Carry out a range of health surveillance activities, including undertaking health spirometry, audiology, skin assessment and Hand Arm Vibration assessments under indirect supervision of an Occupational Health Nurse/Advisor

Undertake vision, colour vision, height, weight, blood pressure and pulse assessments

Undertake Display Screen Equipment, lone worker and night worker assessments

Generate clear, concise and accurate outcome reports

Report any abnormal findings or causes for concern

Ensure care, correct use and calibration of equipment

Scheduling

Managing health surveillance appointments and recall appointments

Liaising with external providers regarding health surveillance appointment requirements

Liaise between managers, HR and colleagues regarding arrangements for appointments

Maintain recall system

Monitor attendance

Information management

Maintaining health records (filing system, spreadsheet systems, database system)

Support generation of Occupational Health (OH) activity reports

Physical agents monitoring

Undertake physical agents monitoring, e.g. noise assessments, HAVS vibration assessments (Training can/will be provided)

Support activities

Management of enquiries from business

Signpost individuals to appropriate services

Assist with health and wellbeing activities, company service level agreements and achieving targets

Support health and wellbeing projects, policies and procedures

Ordering and maintaining stock

Provide advice on legal responsibilities, requirements and company requirements

Ability to be mobile and travel is essential part of the job

To actively participate in meetings, working groups, or similar

Expertise

Experience in an OH technician role or proven background in an OH setting. Someone with transferable skills may be considered.

Communication

Demonstrate excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills

Support wider team and company communications

Sensitive and professional management of individuals

Flexible approach

Ability to adapt to unexpected and varied circumstances

General

Ability to work under your own initiative, prioritise tasks and work to deadlines

Proven experience in maintaining confidentiality and data protection

Use of databases, OH specific databases

Experienced with Microsoft packages particularly Microsoft Excel and Word

Willingness to undertake appropriate training to support job requirements and activities