Senior Occupational Health Advisor

Go back Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 04 February 2026

Are you an Occupational Health nurse looking for a new challenge? Are you excited about developing your leadership skills and playing a key role in managing the delivery of an expanding Occupational Health and Wellbeing service to NHS staff? Would you like to work in a team with a collective goal to improve clinical standards within a service that’s always striving to be the best?

If so, this may be the position for you.

Playing a key role in:

• Developing and reviewing the Occupational Health and Wellbeing service delivery
• Promoting excellence in nursing and maintaining and improving clinical standards
• Supporting the creation of a service that is patient focused and inspires patient and employer confidence
• Leading on all elements of clinical governance
• Staff development and training

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.

Our Excellence Values

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone’s full potential.

UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

• Registered NMC General Nurse
• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent level of training, education, or experience)
• Part 3 Registered Occupational Health Specialist Nurse Qualification/Working towards (or equivalent level of training, education or experience)
• Immunisation Training
• Venepuncture Expansion of Practice
• NEBOSH/IOSH Qualification
• Chain of Custody Training
• Audiometry Training /Spirometry Training

• Experience of working within an NHS occupational health setting at Band 6
• Experience of supervising and supporting a junior clinical team with day-to-day matters
• Experience of supporting workplace physical and mental health
• Experience and knowledge of basic clinical audit process
• Operational Experience of using eOPAS/G2

• IT proficient in using Microsoft packages and clinical systems
• Demonstrates positive leadership behaviours to motivate, supervise and support the junior clinical and administration team
• Flexible and able to respond to changing situations and manage potentially distressing and sensitive situations, encounter healthcare workers who may have complex physical and/mental health issues or have been exposed to occupational exposures/incidents
• Good self-awareness and self-care /compassion strategies in order to be able to address complex multi- dimensional issues (as above) and provide support to the team in a professional and compassionate way.
• Clinical expertise in venepuncture, administration of vaccinations, Mantoux testing, Management of Contamination injuries, management and health surveillance screening including healthcare workers living with a blood borne virus.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and listening)
• Presentation skills to be able to deliver informal and formal teaching or to present information

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