Senior OH Physician Manager E&T

Role: Senior OH Physician Manager
Location:  Hybrid/ Borough high street
Band: Band 4 Up to 130k depending on experience
Contract Type:  Permanent

About the role 

The role holder is responsible for providing leadership and management to a clinical team, ensuring that OH advice is of a high quality, to meet the needs of the organisation so that management decisions can be made around health issues. Providing leadership, direction for clinical education and training for all clinical specialties; including meeting organisational requirements relevant to legislation and professional requirements. The impact of the work done by this role potentially extends to £ millions per year, in absence prevented, improved employee performance, employer liability claims prevented or minimised, employment tribunals prevented or won by TfL Group. The role is delivered through demonstrating TfL behaviours in the context of the TfL strategy. There is a focus on delivering high quality, effective and efficient OH services and emphasis on a continuous cycle of improvement.

Key Accountabilities 

• Accountable for provision and quality of advice and guidance given by their clinical team to managers and employees to ensure a high quality of service is provided to the business.
• Lead a team of multidisciplinary clinicians to influence key stakeholders, driving consistency and maintaining strategic oversight of professional guidelines and standards.
• Accountable for leading annual training needs analysis and developing an education and training programme for Occupational Health & Wellbeing (OH&W) clinical staff.
• Accountable for identifying and encouraging research and development opportunities for the benefit of TfL this includes disease prevention and health promotion. Leading on data analysis to drive decision making and activities to bolster the standing of OH&W within the organisation.
• Responsible for leading a Continuous Professional Development Programme for OH&W in line with professional guidelines and standards.
• Responsible for evaluating the contribution of training and development to the maintenance and increase in the quality of clinical care delivery by ensuring that high standards are maintained and driving consistency.
• Ensuring that clinical standards, quality assurance and clinical governance agendas are mapped to clinical education within OH&W.
• Leading, developing and influencing the design and delivery of other learning and training programmes required by TfL which relate to OH&W role and function.
• Representing TfL externally as the OH&W subject matter expert for OH&W clinical training and development. Ensure to develop a maintain external networks and relationships.
• Lead staff and build a culture of coaching and development across the team, ensuring the development of staff succession plans, identification of skill needs and securing of appropriate training and development.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Skills 

• Excellent planning, presentation, time, project management skills and be able to work under pressure (desirable)
• Able to interact with colleagues at all levels across the business, able to manage, motivate and inspire others without direct authority (essential)
• Professional clinical competence, judgment and reasoning for a wide range of occupational health issues (Essential)
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and statistics. (Essential)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills including through written reports, presentations to senior management, leading discussion and debate to achieve session goals and collective agreement. (Essential)
• Ability to contribute to developing and updating of medical standards for safety purposes. (Essential)
• Planning & Organising - to ensure service resilience and meet customer expectations (desirable)
• Give clear, evidence based clinical opinions on complex cases & support/advise others in the OH team (Essential)

 Knowledge 

• High level of clinical knowledge and expertise in UK Regulatory framework in the practice of occupational health management (essential)
• Member Faculty of Occupational Medicine (MFOM) - accredited specialist (or equivalent) (essential)
• Academic qualification in education and training (desirable)
• Trained clinical supervisor (desirable)
• Operating at a Consultant level (essential)
• Occupational Health clinical knowledge across a broad field of subjects (essential)
• Knowledge of medical standards applicable in railway environments (desirable)

Experience 

• Experience of developing and delivering a clinical education and training programme in a large complex, organisation (desirable)
• Experience of providing supervision for professional staff (Essential)
• Experience of delivering Occupational Health professional advice in complex organisations (Essential)
• Occupational Health experience in a safety critical working environment (desirable) Able to demonstrate professional competence with an extensive range of complex occupational health issues and delivering advice in a large organisation (>15,000 employees), where safety critical activities are undertaken (Essential)

Application Process  

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience listed in this advertisement and cover them in your CV.
  

The closing date for applications is 14th November  @ 23:59 

Benefits

• The opportunity to positively impact the lives of millions of Londoners from day one
• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest free loan
• 35 hour working week
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holiday
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient childcare payments
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

NPL Applications

Applications to internally advertised roles can only be accepted from temporary workers who are on PAYE terms via agency, or PAYE via Umbrella Companies. Temporary workers who are paid through their own limited companies are not covered by the Agency Worker Regulations and are ineligible to apply.  

NPL members of staff are not eligible to apply to secondment opportunities.

Equality and Diversity 
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We want our team to be reflective of the diverse population of Londoners that we serve: there is a space for you in our team to express your views and make a positive difference. The advertised roles are on a full time, part time or job share basis.  

We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.  

We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.