Senior Occupational Health Advisor

Senior Occupational Health Advisor

Are you an experienced Occupational Health and Wellbeing professional excited to play a key role in delivering our Health and Wellbeing Strategy?  Are you excited by the opportunity to lead and inspire your team to deliver and evolve the service to meet the requirements of a diverse workforce? We're seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Occupational Health Advisor to join our in-house Occupational Health and Wellbeing team — a rare opportunity to shape the future of workplace health while practicing autonomously.

Your role

In this role, you’ll lead our multidisciplinary OH team, which includes nurses, technicians, and coordinators. You’ll manage day-to-day service delivery, deputise for the Head of Health and Wellbeing, and ensure business KPIs are met — all while maintaining a 50% clinical caseload.

You’ll supervise the operation of the team, liaising with external providers and collaborating closely with internal stakeholders to deliver our newly developed Health & Wellbeing Strategy. This is a diverse and rewarding role where your leadership will directly impact the health, safety, and resilience of our workforce.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator.  We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers.  Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.  Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What you’ll bring

You will:

• Have proven experience in Occupational Health, ideally within operational, construction or manufacturing settings
• Be a qualified specialist community public health practitioner – occupational health (SCPHN (OH))
• Have experience managing health and wellbeing initiatives and projects
• Have strong team management skills with the ability to meet KPIs and ensure efficient service delivery
• Be competent in health surveillance and case management across a range of conditions
• Be aware of current health and wellbeing legislation
• Have basic IT skills (Excel, Word); experience with OH systems preferred
• Have a full UK driving licence and access to a car

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.  Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gyms, retail vouchers
• Commitment to learning and personal development 
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our employee assistance programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!