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Job summary

Main area
Occupational Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-NM13092
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Occupational Health Service, Education Centre
Town
London
Salary
£56,276 - £63,176 Per annum inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/08/2025 23:59
Interview date
10/09/2025

Employer heading

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Band 7 Senior Occupational Health Nurse Public Health

NHS AfC: Band 7

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Are you an Occupational Health nurse looking for a challenge. Are you motivated to work in the heart of London for the largest NHS occupational health, safety and wellbeing (OHSWB) service in the country? Are you excited about developing your leadership skills and playing a key role in managing the delivery of an expanding public health service to NHS staff and commercial customers? 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. 

A career in the OHSWB at Guy’s and St Thomas’ will give you the opportunity to learn from the best, thrive and be at the forefront of shaping the Occupational Health agenda in the UK. Join us and be part of a diverse, committed and exceptional team!

Closing date: 10/08/2024

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role:

Playing a key role in:

  • Developing and reviewing the OHSWB Public Health 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

For further details please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification on our website. 

Working for our organisation

      We can offer you:

  • Unparalleled learning and career development opportunities, in a supportive and inclusive environment
  • An experienced, knowledgeable and friendly multidisciplinary team of over 100 colleagues, including: doctors, nurses, health and safety specialists, psychologists, physiotherapists, dieticians, manual handling advisers, researchers and administrators
  • The opportunity to be part of delivering and building a broad and varied Public Health portfolio
  • Access to our wide ranging  'showing we care about you'  staff health and wellbeing programme, as well as a generous benefits package.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What we want from you:

  • Have knowledge of recent NHS/DH/HSE/UKHSA legislation & 
    recommendation
  • Awareness of emerging trends and changing emphasis within the sphere of OH and public health
  • Excellent communication and teamworking skills
  • Commitment to driving clinical governance standards 
  • Ability to be flexible, responsive and dynamic 
  • Motivation and commitment to continuous learning and development.

Person specification

Previous experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial RGN, post registration experience in acute setting
  • Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice
  • People management skills including supervisory skills and evidence of student supervision
  • Has knowledge of recent NHS/DH/HSE/UKHSA legislation & recommendations
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working within a large organisation
  • Knowledge of immunisations

Education/ Qualificatio ns Professiona l/ Statutory Registratio n

Essential criteria
  • registered nurse on the NMC register
  • Specialist community public health nursing NMC registration (SCPHN) Occupational Health Specialist Practitioner Nursing or relevant Occupational Health/Public Health qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching or mentorship course
  • Management qualification or equivalent experience

Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability

Essential criteria
  • Substantial evidence of clinical skills/knowledge/ability to deliver all aspects of occupational/public health provision as detailed in the job description
  • Excellent verbal communication & interpersonal skills with the ability to prepare and produce concise and insightful communications for cascade to a broad range of stakeholder
  • Excellent report writing skills using both analytical and judgement skills
  • IT literate and experienced in the use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Able to prioritise own workload and assist others in developing these skills, whilst achieving balance between clinical work & other aspects of the post
  • Ability to work autonomously and as a member of a team, and of a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of organising and chairing meetings
  • Teaching & supervisory skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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
Beverly Ganpot
Job title
Matron, Trust Service
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0207 188 4152
Additional information

ZOUBIRI, Lilian (GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST) <[email protected]>

Head of Nursing

 

BEXLEY, Sarah (GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST) <[email protected]>; on behalf of; Bexley Sarah <[email protected]>

Head of Nursing

 

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