Occupational Health Advisor
Occupational Health Advisor – Make a Visible Impact in Workplace Health
Join Tetra Tech Occupational Health as an Occupational Health Advisor supporting our Ford contract in Daventry. This is a varied, site-based role where your clinical judgement will help protect health, promote wellbeing and support safe, effective working across a high-profile manufacturing environment.
Purpose and Scope of the Role
Working two days per week, you will deliver emergency response and treatment services, health surveillance, health screening, fitness for work assessments and health promotion activity. You will work closely with employees, client stakeholders, Clinical Management, the Lead Occupational Health Adviser and Service Delivery Management to ensure a responsive, compliant and high-quality service.
You will be part of a wider multidisciplinary Occupational Health team of Nurses, Doctors, Technicians and Advisers, with a culture built on trust, collaboration and manageable workloads.
Your Impact in this Position
In the short term, you will help maintain a safe and effective clinic service, supporting employees with practical, timely occupational health advice. Over time, you will build strong relationships across the site, contribute to wellbeing initiatives and support management information through accurate clinical activity updates.
Longer term, you will have the opportunity to develop within a respected Occupational Health team, broaden your exposure to manufacturing health risks and contribute to service improvements that make a measurable difference to employee wellbeing and client outcomes.
Core Capabilities
Clinical Practice and Governance
- Deliver evidence-based occupational health services in line with NMC requirements, contractual standards and relevant workplace legislation.
Emergency Response and Treatment
- Provide confident treatment services, including emergency call-outs, clinical assessments and appropriate escalation or signposting.
Health Surveillance and Screening
- Undertake fitness for work, health surveillance, executive medicals and Health MOTs, ensuring accurate recording and timely sign-off.
Communication and Collaboration
- Build effective working relationships with employees, client contacts and clinical colleagues, contributing to safety walks, reviews and service updates.
Planning and Self-Management
- Manage a varied clinic workload independently, maintaining quality, confidentiality and clear priorities across daily activities.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
You will be a Registered General Nurse, ideally holding or working towards a post-registration Occupational Health qualification at certificate, diploma or degree level. Practice Nurse experience is essential, with Occupational Health, acute nursing and health surveillance experience desirable.
You should bring strong verbal and written communication skills, good IT capability across Microsoft Office, email and occupational health systems, and the confidence to work alone or as part of a team. Desirable skills include project management, prioritising team workloads, supporting a small team, managing service activity and commercial awareness through identifying client needs or chargeable opportunities.
Work Patterns and Location
This role is based at the client site in Daventry for two days per week, with flexible start and end times. Due to the clinical and client-facing nature of the role, regular on-site attendance is required, with flexibility discussed in line with service needs. #LI-SY1 #OccupationalHealth
Why join Tetra Tech?
Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting and engineering services working across the full project lifecycle worldwide. We have a wide range of expertise across our teams, providing a global support network with a personalised approach to client relationships to better understand where we can add value. We provide a collaborative environment that supports individual performance, innovation, and creativity.
We support public and private sector clients on local, national, and international projects to deliver sustainable and resilient solutions. Our operations in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands include more than 6,000 employees who are Leading with Science® to solve our clients’ most complex problems.
In alignment with the Equality Act 2010, we will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates and employees requiring additional arrangements. This could include adaptations to work schedules, training approaches, or the physical workspace. Please inform us if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process or in your day-to-day role.
