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The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) released its Jobs Outlook for the first half of 2019 and it found:-

The net balance of employers’ confidence in the prospects for the UK economy improved by 3 percentage points

The UK workforce increased by 0.1% in February–April 2019

Self-employment rose by 74,000 (1.5%) quarter-on-quarter to 4,913,000 (15.0% of the workforce)

The UK unemployment rate was 3.8% in February–April 2019 – At 1,304,000

15% of UK employers had made redundancies in the year to March–May 2019 – significantly lower than a year earlier (20%).

39% of UK employers who hire temporary agency workers stated that agency worker pay rates were higher than the permanent equivalent

50% of UK employers that hire agency workers rate their use as important for managing fast-changing organisational requirements

Occupational Health News

Reported in Global railway review it was said:-

Despite the steps taken by the rail industry to take care of its workforce, more needs to be done to ensure the health of employees is a priority.

It has been highlighted that there are serious occupational and mental health issues that the workforce need to be protected from

Keith Morey, a member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s (IOSH) Railway Group, believes recently-published figures from the UK’s Office of Road and Rail (ORR) are a “wake-up call” for the industry.

In 2018 – 2019 There was:

91 reported cases of hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS)

483 injuries relating to manual handling – 157 led to sickness absence

1,054 cases of shock or trauma, relating to someone who has tried to commit suicide or has been affected by someone who has attempted it.

Morey said that these figures are a wake-up call and in terms of occupational health, anyone who suffers from HAVS it is unacceptable that people are suffering when it is entirely preventable, he goes on to say as an industry, we need to ensure that proper controls are in place

OH Staffing Updates

In an effort to continue striving to be the BEST OH Recruitment agency Occupational Health Staffing have added an instant online chat facility to our website www.ohstaffing.co.uk check it out

We currently have 120 live Occupational Health vacancies on our website

We are looking for Occupational health:-

Nurses, Advisors, Managers, Physicians, Therapists, Technicians and Administrators

Across the UK

Job of the Week

Job Ref: SR-5257

Senior Occupational Health Advisor

Location: Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire  

Job Type: Full Time Permanent

Occupational Health Staffing are looking to recruit a Senior Occupational Health Advisor to work on a full time permanent basis in Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire which is just North of Sheffield. Working as part of an OH team in an in-house role the Senior OHA will manage a small team (3 x OHA’s and 1 x OH Tech) whilst reporting into the OH Manager

Duties include:

• Strategic development of OHA delivery
• Line management responsibility for a small team of OHAs providing leadership, coaching, mentoring and clinical supervision/governance
• Development, implementation and maintenance of a robust audit process to ensure advice provided is consistent, complies with confidentiality requirements and codes of professional practice
• Review and support policies and processes
• Clinical delivery of OH services including fitness for work, preplacement, attendance management, health surveillance, vaccinations, contamination incidents etc.
• Advice and support for HR/managers regarding services and the management of specific cases

To apply for this role:-

• Professionally qualified in Occupational Health Nursing (Degree or Diploma) – along with significant understanding and practical experience in the health sector.
• Proven managerial experience providing leadership and supervision with evidence of developing and implementing improvements in delivery.
• Case management experience.
• Hours are 37 per week 

Salary: £40K – £44.7K

Contact us:

Landline: 0208 952 6278

Steve Roberts – 07970 075 115 – steve@ohstaffing.co.uk

Priya Kanji – 07957 925 532 – priya@ohstaffing.co.uk

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Centrica announced it is planning to cut around 700 management and back office jobs as it faces “growing challenges”.

Trade union GMB hit out at the firm’s boss Iain Conn, claiming his “rotten leadership” has resulted in the loss of people’s livelihoods.

The company said staff had been told about the cuts

A spokesman said: “This difficult decision was made because we need to respond to the growing challenges we face. The energy market is going through continued rapid change, competition is fierce, our energy customers are leaving us and we’re operating under a price cap.

Unions said the job losses were a “terrible blow” for the workforce.

Occupational Health News

It has long been held that being in employment benefits people’s wellbeing but how much work is good for us and at what point do we start to suffer through too much or too little work?

Researchers from Cambridge and Salford universities published a paper looking at how much paid work is needed for mental health and wellbeing

The researchers, led by Brendan Burchell at Judge Business School, Cambridge University, analysed data from 85,000 people from the UK Household Longitudinal Study from 2009 to 2018, seeking answers to two questions. What is the minimum amount of paid employment needed to deliver some or all of the wellbeing and mental health benefits that employment has been shown to bring? And what is the optimum number of working hours at which the mental health of workers is at its highest?

The study found that even a small number of working hours, of between one and eight hours per week generates significant mental health and wellbeing benefits

The researchers concluded was little variation in wellbeing between those who worked one to eight hours per week through to those who worked 44-48 hours per week.

OH Staffing Updates

In in effort to continue striving to be the BEST OH Recruitment agency Occupational Health Staffing have added an instant online chat facility to our website www.ohstaffing.co.uk check it out

We currently have 120 live Occupational Health vacancies on our website

We are looking for Occupational health:-

Nurses, Advisors, Managers, Physicians, Therapists, Technicians and Administrators

Across the UK

Job of the Week

Job Ref: SR-5282

2 x Occupational Health Nurses Advisor

Location: Corby, East Midlands

Job Type: Full Time Permanent

Occupational Health Staffing are looking to recruit 2 x occupational health nurse advisors on a full time permanent basis as  part of an OH team working for a manufacturing client in Corby, east Midlands. As the Occupational Health Nurse on site, you will be required to provide a comprehensive and pro-active Occupational Health Service, providing expert advice and support to the Business on all aspects of Occupational Health and Occupational Health Legislation. Duties include:-

• Health surveillance including Pre-Placement and Safety Critical Medicals, Due Cause Testing and routine health surveillance / screening.
• Provide expert advice in the management of sickness absence cases, assessing individuals for fitness to work and rehabilitation programmes
• Refer cases to Medical Officer and Physiotherapy services
• Organise and deliver health promotion campaigns as appropriate.
• Advise and counsel individuals on Occupational Health matters
• Assess and evaluate patients in cases of illness or accident, providing immediate first aid treatment

To Apply:

• You will need to be a Registered General Nurse and will ideally possess the Diploma / Degree in Occupational Health, with proven experience in an Occupational Health setting.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are an essential pre-requisite for this role, alongside a proven ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels within the organisation.
• You will need to be able to demonstrate strong organisational skills and will possess sound business awareness.

Salary: £Negotiable + 35 days holidays per annum, Company Bonus, contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution), Private Healthcare, Annual Pay Review and Employee discount scheme

Contact us:

Landline: 0208 952 6278

Steve Roberts – 07970 075 115 – steve@ohstaffing.co.uk

Priya Kanji – 07957 925 532 – priya@ohstaffing.co.uk

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According to a new government people plan called “The interim NHS people plan” launched in a bid to address the NHS’ workforce, states that it is important to provide better culture and retention but experts warn managers need to ‘start with their own behaviour’ to enact change – The NHS needs to rapidly become a better place to work, as well as address growing staff shortages

The interim NHS people plan which has been developed by the British Medical Association (BMA), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), NHS managers and staff unions argues that more needs to be done to improve keeping existing healthcare staff and transform ways of working on top of recruiting new workers.

The plan, focuses on three key areas – recruiting more staff; making the NHS a better place to work; and equipping it to meet the future challenges

Occupational Health News

Mental Health issues leading to staff absences cost the Home Office £12 in 2018 b

Other departments have reported losing hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of staff time to stress alone.

Senior Whitehall officials have suggested that increased workloads and stubbornly high harassment levels were causing this issue

Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake, who compiled the data, said the impact of Brexit was also likely to be a contributing factor due to harassment of civil servants and loss of focus from other policy work.

OH Staffing Updates

In an effort to continue striving to be the BEST OH Recruitment agency Occupational Health Staffing have added an instant online chat facility to our website www.ohstaffing.co.uk check it out

We currently have 120 live Occupational Health vacancies on our website

We are looking for Occupational health:-

Nurses, Advisors, Managers, Physicians, Therapists, Technicians and Administrators

Across the UK

Job of the Week

Job Ref: SR-5237

Peripatetic Treatment & Occupational Health Nurse

Location: London – various Sites

Job Type: Full Time Permanent

Occupational Health Staffing is looking to recruit a Treatment & Occupational Health Nurse on a full time permanent basis to work on a number of their client sites in London. Working for a high profile health care provider the successful individual will be required to work in a multidisciplinary team providing Occupational Health screening, treatment and emergency response services across client sites across the London Region.

This role requires an ability to assess and manage minor injury and illness, deliver health and wellbeing initiatives, and work with external organisations and other healthcare professionals.

Main duties of the role include:

• Assess new clients presenting to Occupational Health.
• Assess individual’s fitness to work for the appropriate job role.
• Provide clinical assessment of clients presenting with minor illness and injury
• Provide health surveillance.
• Write letters to GP/Specialists in line with the Access to Medical Reports Act and GDPR
• Support the OH Manager to advise, monitor and assess the clinical practice of the OH team
• Prioritise and manage the clinical caseload generated by the various clients
• This role will be roughly 50% safety critical medicals/Health Surveillance, 30% mini health checks and treatments, 10% Health Education and 10% Drug and Alcohol testing. 

To apply you will be a registered nurse with NMC Part 1 and have experience within OH, A&E and/or an acute/practice area

This is a full time role, where the successful applicant will work Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours per day between the hours of 8.00am and 4.00pm

Salary: £34 – £36K + 25 days holiday

Contact us:

Landline: 0208 952 6278

Steve Roberts – 07970 075 115 – steve@ohstaffing.co.uk

Priya Kanji – 07957 925 532 – priya@ohstaffing.co.uk