Occupational Health Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 5

• Occupational Health
• NHS AfC: Band 5
• Permanent
• • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
• 319-7471895JN

• North Tyneside General Hospital
• North Shields
• £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum
• Yearly
• 15/10/2025 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes.  If you use AI, and it poses a risk  to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process. 

Job overview

Occupational Health are looking for enthusiastic and motivated staff to join their team! The OH service provides quality advice and support for staff and employers, looking after Northumbria Healthcare, Northumberland County Council and smaller employers in the Northumberland and North Tyneside region. We hold SEQOHS accreditation and are a member of the NHS Health at Work Network.

The Occupational Health Nurse provides a vital role in assessing fitness to work, providing vaccinations and health screening to ensure staff are prepared for their role. The job also involves health surveillance according to Health and Safety Regulations, National guidance and local policy and also is a first contact giving advice on health and work.

We are a close team of Specialist Nurses, OH Nurses, Occupational Health Physicians, Psychologists and Counsellors, Physiotherapists who are dedicated to providing staff and employer support. Days can be very varied and rewarding!

The OH department works over North Tyneside and Northumbria to support staff. This means that you will have an identified work base, however needs of the service may mean you need to travel to cover clinics elsewhere, for example, Hexham, Alnwick or Berwick, or provide one-off clinics, for example, staff flu vaccinations for council workers.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be primarily based at North Tyneside General Hospital. The role will include tasks such as health clearance of new staff, vaccinations, and venepuncture. The successful candidate must be able to run their own clinic, managing booked appointments, while also showing flexibility when needed to support drop-ins and urgent assessments.

The role also includes taking part in health promotion activities, working closely with the wider OH team to champion wellbeing strategies. Staff need to be able to refer and signpost to a variety of supportive services, showing resilience in identifying a client's needs in sometimes difficult circumstances. Good IT literacy is required, alongside excellent communication skills.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This Post contributes to the Occupational Health team in providing a service that covers all aspects of occupational health care to staff within the Trust and to external contracts.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 1st Level Live NMC Registered Nurse
• Newly qualified staff will be required to undertake the Trust preceptorship programme within the first year in post.
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period unless post is bank only).

Desirable criteria

• Experience of Audiometry
• Experience of Lung function
• Knowledge of blood borne viruses
• Certificate of competence or working experience in venepuncture
• Previous Occupational Health experience
• Experience in the management of sharps injuries
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students

Other

Essential criteria

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.  The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

• Name
• Laura Mckenna
• Job title
• Occupational Health Nurse Manager
• Email address
• laura.mckenna@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
• Telephone number
• 0191 2934373
• Additional information

• David Patterson OH Nurse Practitioner

  david.patterson@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk

  01670 529213

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