Health Surveillance Practitioner and Administrator

Human Resources

This part-time post (22 hours per week) is available immediately on a fixed term basis for two years.

About the role

The University of Exeter is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of its staff. The University Occupational Health Service is an in-house nurse led service, which is involved in ensuring that university staff are working safely and that their work is not impacting on their health. 

The Occupational Health team support all employee Health Surveillance requirements. These are employees who need regular checks to ensure that work is not impacting on their health. Other work in occupational health includes supporting employees at work and providing advice to managers on how to effectively support employees with work.

This role is a vital part of the team as the post holder will support certain university staff to receive their health surveillance test. This will involve administration in setting up appointments, setting up the clinic space and equipment and directly carrying out specific tests in the clinic, such as audiometry and spirometry tests. Training would be provided.

If you are someone who likes supporting others, is customer focussed, calm and highly organised with excellent attention to detail, this could be an exciting role for you. 

The main elements of the role will include conducting health surveillance testing (audiometry and spirometry); acting as a central point for Health Surveillance administration, management of paper and electronic clinical records via the Occupational Health Service Data Management system and assisting the OH Admin Lead with management of HS data and programmes.

The Occupational Health team is small and friendly team of experts, who are each committed to supporting the wellbeing of university employees. It’s a friendly team based on the main university campus (Streatham) and occasional travel may be needed to St Lukes (Exeter) campus.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Benefits  

• 39 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

For an informal conversation or more information please contact: Erika Morgan, Occupational Health Admin Lead. Tel: 07866 139 677 Email: e.l.t.morgan@exeter.ac.uk or Toni Searl, Occupational Health Manager. Email: t.searl@exeter.ac.uk

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