MFT Employee Health and Wellbeing (EHW) service provides specialist advice and support regarding employee health issues to MFT employees and managers as well as to a variety of external clients. The EHW Service continues to provide an efficient, highly professional and cost-effective servicewhilst focusing activity on meeting the common challenges faced by a large Acute NHS Trust we now look after over 28,000 employees making us the biggest Trust in the UK.

The EHW Service is a multidisciplinary team (MDT) comprising of Senior Managers, Occupational Physicians, Fitness for Work Advisers (including Occupational Health qualified nurses/specialist practitioners, Mental Health nurse, Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist), Clinic Nurses, Psychological Support Therapists and EHW Physiotherapists delivering the Musculoskeletal service. Working with our Service Support team, the main priority is to create a dynamic approach to maximise employee health, wellbeing and productivity.

We are currently recruiting experienced practitioners to deliver our multidisciplinary fitness for work service and work alongside our expert colleagues in providing an EHW service to our highly skilled organisation.

Are you the person we are looking for to help with this vision?

Main duties of the job

The candidate will be highly motivated and competent to deliver the Occupational Therapy aspect of the fitness for work service, supporting both physical and mental health. They must be able to provide quality workplace assessments, functional capability assessments, supporting with reasonable adjustments and return to work plans and guidance to MFT staff, including reports to management and be able to engage with all relevant stakeholders. The candidate will need to have an Occupational Health background and experience of working in an MDT setting and approach. There will be a requirement to engage with managers including provision of guided sessions on the importance of effective self-care, rehabilitation and strategies required to support any staff member with a health condition.

Taking a business partnership approach, you will work alongside EHW colleagues to provide proactive EHW services to the Trust as well as supporting external contracts. We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and motivated individual, who is IT literate and able to contribute to system and process development.

As a key member of the team, this role provides a unique and exciting opportunity to assist in the design and delivery of a highly professional and customer focused, EHW service.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of �2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
• Current registration with relevant professional body

Desirable

• Occupational Health experience/qualification
• Report writing training
• Teaching / mentor qualification

Knowledge

Essential

• Professional and legal knowledge in relation to fitness for work assessments and the writing of management feedback reports
• Policy, process and protocol development

Desirable

• Health and lifestyle initiatives

Training and Experience

Essential

• Designing, implementing and monitoring employee rehabilitation programmes including return to work plans
• Working within an Occupational Health / Employee Health & Wellbeing or case management setting
• Case Conferences / Multi-Disciplinary Team discussions
• Proven report writing skills
• Audit and evaluation of professional practice

Desirable

• Working with IT database systems or specific OH systems
• Delivering workplace and ergonomic assessments
• Delivering functional capability assessments
• Delivering training and education programmes
• Networking

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Proficient in employee rehabilitation programmes
• Proficient in case conference meetings and multi-disciplinary team discussions
• Proficient in report writing
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Effective time management
• Ability to work on own initiative, unsupervised and independently whilst working as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to engage with key stakeholders
• Good IT skills e.g. Microsoft packages, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Desirable

• Management information collating and reporting
• Presentation skills

Attributes

Essential

• Commitment to achieving personal, departmental and organisational objectives
• Innovative and creative when looking for solutions
• Persistent and resourceful
• Team player
• Able to adapt approach and style to meet needs of audience

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oxford Road Campus

Manchester

M13 9WL

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