Speciality Doctor - Occupation Health

Job overview

This is a new Specialty Doctor role, created to expand and strengthen the established in-house Occupational Health (OH) multidisciplinary team. You will join an existing group of clinicians including doctors, nurses, therapists and psychologists to provide the full range of Occupational Healthcare care to the Trust staff.

The Department of Occupational Health and Wellbeing is a long established service within Kings College Hospital providing occupational health services to some 15,000 Trust staff. In addition to being service provider to the host, Trust the department provides occupational health to a number of public and private third party organisations.

The main service is currently based in the Jennie Lee House premises in Camberwell, close to the Trust’s Denmark hill campus with a satellite unit based at Orpington. The department’s multi-disciplinary team include Consultants, Head of Nursing/General Manager, Specialty Doctor, Sessional Doctors including a liaison psychiatrist, principal nurse advisors, senior and specialist nurse advisors, physiotherapists and an occupational therapist.

A business and administration team supports the department. King’s College Hospital Occupational Health and Wellbeing Department is fully accredited to the standards for Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Services.

Main duties of the job

This is an on-site role based in Jennie Lee House, Denmark Hill. There may be opportunity for some remote working in line with the Trust’s Flexible Working Policy.

Occupational health services include pre placement screening (pre-employment screening), employment immunisations and screening, surveillance services, standard fitness for work case reviews, ill health retirement advice, workplace visits, management advice, policy and organisational health risk assessment input with committee and case conferences.

Additionally physiotherapists provide assessment and treatment and the occupational therapists provide functional assessments, work-place visits and treatment. Clinical governance, research and teaching are key and expanding areas of work for the department. The department has liaison psychiatrist affiliated to it.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• SPECIFIC AREAS

This is an on-site role based in Jennie Lee House, Denmark Hill. There may be opportunity for some remote working in line with the Trust’s Flexible Working Policy.

Occupational health services include pre placement screening (pre-employment screening), employment immunisations and screening, surveillance services, standard fitness for work case reviews, ill health retirement advice, workplace visits, management advice, policy and organisational health risk assessment input with committee and case conferences. Additionally physiotherapists provide assessment and treatment and the occupational therapists provide functional assessments, work-place visits and treatment. Clinical governance, research and teaching are key and expanding areas of work for the department. The department has liaison psychiatrist affiliated to it.

• CLINICAL ORGANISATION

Multidisciplinary Occupational Health Team

The Medical team is led and clinically managed by the Lead Consultants who are Occupational Health Physician and who have overall clinical accountability for the department. They lead on clinical development work and supporting of standards setting.

The department is managed by the Head of Nursing/General Manager (HoN/GM). The HoN/GM is accountable for the day to day operational delivery of the service, has budgetary responsibility and overall management responsibility for the nursing, administrative and therapy team. Therapists also have professional accountability to the respective leads.

The HoN/GM and Lead Consultant have a key professional relationship in terms of service and clinical delivery. They report directly to the Associate Director of Workforce and sit within the People Directorate.  For the medical team there is a professional accountability line through the Lead Consultant to the Medical Director, Denmark Hill.

The HoN/GM and Lead Consultant are supported by a Clinical/Operational Lead Nurse and a Clinical Nurse Specialist.  They are also supported by senior nurses and practice nurses. In addition to the clinical team, the service is supported by a Business Support Manager and team of administrators.