Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Part time hours considered)
- Job ref
- 164-7232038
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City Campus
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Occupational Health Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
Are you confident, self-motivating & able to work at pace?
Do you enjoy working as part of a team but is equally comfortable working on their own and with minimal supervision?
Do you relish a challenge and what to work in a stimulating and rewarding area of nursing. That will allow you develop a completely new skill set. Whilst at the same time helping your colleagues stay healthy and well at work?
If so then we want to hear from you?
The Occupational Health Department of Nottingham University Hospitals are looking to recruit a suitably experience registered nurse with current UK NMC registration to join our established nurse advisor team.
Main duties of the job
Key elements of the role;
Fitness for work assessments.
Work place Immunity Assessments.
Vaccination clinics.
Management of sharps and contamination incidents.
Health Surveillance.
Support the promotion of workplace health initiatives.
Participate in department clinical audit and service development work.
We are a paper light department so excellent IT skills are a must and you will also need to be comfortable communicating with clients both face to face but also virtually e.g. telephone and emails.
You will work from our departments based on the Queen’s Medical Centre and City Hospital Campus but you should be be willing to travel to cover occasional clinics at external locations.
While Occupational health experience would be an advantage we can provide you with the training required.
Working for our organisation
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country. We are, a large, complex, person-centred organisation with an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of patient care, research, education and innovation. For more information about the Trust, visit our website.
The Occupational Health Team are part of the Corporate HR department and is comprised of a multi disciplinary team. We are a SEQOHS accredited service comprising a team of Occupational Health Doctors (Consultants & Registrar’s), specialist nurses, nurse advisors, occupational health technicians & counsellors all supported by a team of medical administrator’s. In addition to the services we provide to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust we also provide Occupational health services to a number of other NHS trusts and to a number private companies in the region.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current UK NMC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate depth of nursing experience. Alternatively, have worked as a practice/community nurse or within an accident and emergency/urgent care setting.
- Confident in undertaking nurse led clinics.
- Administration of vaccinations and/or be able to undertake phlebotomy
- Must be able to demonstrate substantive experience of working with IT systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within Occupational Health.
- Experience of providing clinic advice over the telephone
- Experience of using Occupational health clinical I.T databases e.g., OPAS G2
Communication and relationship
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate clear and effective verbal and written communication skills
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to prioritise and adjust as appropriate, own workload to ensure tasks are progressed/completed in timely manner
- Ability to analyse and resolve patient problems and queries.
Desirable criteria
- Experience managing a clinical case load
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Smith
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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