Occupational Health and Wellbeing Lead

Our client is a reputable Tier 1 contractor within Construction, Building and Rail. They are looking for an Occupational Health and Wellbeing Lead to join their team in St Albans with the expectation to travel across the country between different sites.  

This role is a one-year contract to cover maternity leave. It is full-time and based in the UK. Flexibility required in travelling to other client's locations across the UK, but there may also be requirements to travel to Ireland and mainland Europe on occasion.  

Key Responsibilities  

- Administration and coordination of various initiatives, including intoxicants testing, health screening, flu vaccination programmes, safety critical worker medicals etc.  

- Research, design and delivery of effective health protection programmes to address construction-related hazards such as noise, vibration, chemicals, dusts etc.  

- Support and promote mental health programmes and initiatives that align with the company-wide strategy.  

- Creation of occupational health-related policies, procedures and guidance to form part of their OHS Management System.  

- Conduct DSE Assessments and lead on the wider DSE Assessment programme.  

- Design and delivery of Occupational Health and Wellbeing content at corporate inductions.  

- Management of Occupational Health content.  

- Collation of metrics and data relating to Occupational Health programmes and activities to feed into Power BI dashboards.  

- Work closely with third party occupational health service providers in effective delivery and management of services.  

- Any other duties associated with occupational health and wellbeing.

- Knowledge and understanding of work-related health hazards and exposures.  

- Experience of coordinating health screening programmes.  

- Experience in research, design and delivery of occupational health programmes.  

- High level of planning and organisational skills  

- Ability to work on multiple tasks and to strict deadlines  

- Excellent attention to detail  

- Good IT literacy, especially Excel  

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal  

- Good technical writing skills  

- Strong presentation skills  

- Ability to work closely with internal and external stakeholders and to create strong working relationships  

- Strong interest in workplace health promotion and mental health  

- Training & CPD  

Required  

- Qualification in occupational health, health and safety, or other relevant health-related discipline or working towards a relevant qualification  

Desirable  

- IOSH qualification  

- DSE Assessor Training  

- Occupational Hygiene  

- Mental Health Awareness Training