Occupational Health Specialist Nurse

Occupational Health Specialist Nurse The closing date is 04 March 2026

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Do you enjoy the challenge of working in a busy service where no two days are the same? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Occupational Health and Wellbeing Specialist Nurse to join our professional and supportive SEQOHS accredited team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The post is based at The Working Well Centre, Worcester, but will also involve cross-site working, travel to some outside NHS sites and companies for whom we provide an Occupational Health and Wellbeing service.

Working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver a comprehensive, confidential and high-quality occupational health service to managers and staff across the organisation and external clients. This role requires advanced clinical decision-making skills, strong leadership capability, and the ability to manage a complex caseload.

You will contribute to service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement initiatives while ensuring compliance with professional standards and organisational policies.

Previous applicants need not apply.

To support and contribute to the effective provision of a high quality Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service.

To promote and maintain a systematic, holistic approach to occupational health and wellbeing provision, its implementation and evaluation.

To participate in identifying and maintaining a safe working environment and preventing ill health that may be associated with work. Receive, interpret and manage highly complex health information from employees, managers and/or HR.

Provide clear, highly specialised, impartial advice to both managers and employees, following work health assessments in line with professional standards, legal obligations and local policy significantly enhancing workplace health, reducing sickness absence, and preventing work‑related injuries.

Undertake formal clinical audit programmes and evaluation, supporting the strategic direction of the service and provide assurance regarding the quality of clinical care and advice.

Keep up to date with best practice, contribute to policy and protocol development, and support audits for SEQOHS accreditation.

Provide clear visible professional advice to employees within the Trust and external clients.

Support and provide professional leadership to facilitate the development and training of the OH nursing staff to agreed service objectives and deputising for the Deputy/Head of Occupational Health in their absence.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Post

Title:

Occupational Health and Wellbeing Nurse Specialist

Pay Band: Agenda for Change Band 7

Hours: 22.5

Contract: Permanent

Location / Department: Working…