Consultant in Occupational Medicine

Job description

Job summary

Are you an experienced Occupational Health professional looking for an exceptional leadership opportunity where you can truly influence the future of staff health, wellbeing, and workforce sustainability?

We are seeking an inspiring and forward-thinking Clinical Lead for Occupational Health Services to join our dynamic and evolving team. This is an exciting senior leadership position offering the opportunity to shape, develop, and transform Occupational Health services at a pivotal time of change.

Working within a highly skilled and supportive multi-disciplinary team comprising Specialist Occupational Health Nurses, a Mental Health Practitioner, Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, and other healthcare professionals, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership to drive excellence in service delivery while advancing a preventative, person-centred approach to employee health and wellbeing.

This is a unique opportunity to join a service that has recently participated in the Vanguard Programme, supporting innovative approaches to keeping people healthy, engaged, and in work. As we continue our journey towards a preventative model of care, you will play a critical role in shaping the future direction of Occupational Health across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

In this influential role, you will:

• Provide strategic and clinical leadership across the Occupational Health Service.
• Enhance, develop, and continuously improve Occupational Health provision in line with best practice, organisational priorities, and workforce needs.
• Lead the ongoing transformation towards a preventative model focused on promoting health, reducing risk, and supporting long-term workforce wellbeing.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure the effective delivery and management of high-quality Occupational Health services.
• Promote the highest clinical standards in Occupational Health practice and ensure services are delivered safely, effectively, and compassionately.
• Actively contribute to the development of strategic and operational business plans, ensuring Occupational Health is recognised as a positive and influential partner within the organisation.
• Lead and strengthen a comprehensive health surveillance programme that safeguards staff health and meets statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Support initiatives that improve staff retention, attendance, wellbeing, and workplace performance.
• Participate in teaching, mentoring, and clinical supervision activities, supporting the growth and development of the Occupational Health workforce.
• Actively contribute to clinical governance, quality assurance, risk management, and audit programmes.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As Clinical Lead, you will be instrumental in promoting the success and continued development of the Occupational Health Service, ensuring that staff and clients receive an outstanding service built upon the principles of clinical governance, innovation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.

You will provide visible clinical leadership, acting as a senior expert, educator, advisor, advocate, and role model for the wider team. You will inspire and empower colleagues to deliver high-quality, integrated care while fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and professional development.

Working in partnership with the Nursing Lead, Psychologist, Specialist Occupational Health Nurses, and wider stakeholders, you will ensure the effective leadership, management, and delivery of a modern Occupational Health service that responds proactively to organisational needs and supports the health and wellbeing of employees throughout their working lives.

Job description
Job responsibilities

As Clinical Lead, you will be instrumental in promoting the success and continued development of the Occupational Health Service, ensuring that staff and clients receive an outstanding service built upon the principles of clinical governance, innovation, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.

You will provide visible clinical leadership, acting as a senior expert, educator, advisor, advocate, and role model for the wider team. You will inspire and empower colleagues to deliver high-quality, integrated care while fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and professional development.

Working in partnership with the Nursing Lead, Psychologist, Specialist Occupational Health Nurses, and wider stakeholders, you will ensure the effective leadership, management, and delivery of a modern Occupational Health service that responds proactively to organisational needs and supports the health and wellbeing of employees throughout their working lives.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and risk management
• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice and entry on the Specialist Register as an Occupational Medicine Specialist or within 6 months of CTT
• Membership of the faculty of Occupational Medicine (MFOM)
• Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
• Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
• Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of 'Good Medical Practice' set out by the general medical council

Desirable

• Other higher medical degree
• Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FFOM)
• Management training or qualification
• Evidence of original

Experience

Essential

• Experience in clinical guideline development
• Comprehensive clinical experience in Occupational Medicine
• Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services

Desirable

• Health surveillance programmes
• Experience of undergraduate and post graduate training
• Experience in setting up 'hub and spoke' services

Knowledge

Essential

• Health and safety legislation and requirements of health surveillance for acute Trusts
• Expert in Occupational medicine and evidence based practice

Desirable

• Previous NHS Occupational Medicine experience

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good computer skills
• Ability and initiative to develop the role

Desirable

• HAVs and ionising radiation qualification

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and risk management
• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice and entry on the Specialist Register as an Occupational Medicine Specialist or within 6 months of CTT
• Membership of the faculty of Occupational Medicine (MFOM)
• Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
• Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
• Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of 'Good Medical Practice' set out by the general medical council

Desirable

• Other higher medical degree
• Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FFOM)
• Management training or qualification
• Evidence of original

Experience

Essential

• Experience in clinical guideline development
• Comprehensive clinical experience in Occupational Medicine
• Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services

Desirable

• Health surveillance programmes
• Experience of undergraduate and post graduate training
• Experience in setting up 'hub and spoke' services

Knowledge

Essential

• Health and safety legislation and requirements of health surveillance for acute Trusts
• Expert in Occupational medicine and evidence based practice

Desirable

• Previous NHS Occupational Medicine experience

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good computer skills
• Ability and initiative to develop the role

Desirable

• HAVs and ionising radiation qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust
Address

Royal London Hospital

Whitechapel road

London

E1 1FR

United Kingdom

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