About Us
Make a Difference (UK) Ltd provide nationwide wellbeing services in the Education sector and our passion is to support the education workforce to be happy and healthy. We’re looking for an Occupational Health Service Lead to champion our clinician-led Occupational Health service.
If you are a registered OH professional looking to combine clinical excellence with strategic leadership, this is your opportunity to shape the future of educational wellbeing.
The Role
Reporting to the Head of Wellbeing, you will lead the delivery of an innovative OH service and oversee a team of internal and associate OH professionals. As the heartbeat of our service, you will play a key role influencing strategic decision-making and driving clinical governance to help us grow a high-quality provision that creates positive wellbeing outcomes for our community of Schools and Academies.
This is a remote based role with a requirement to visit our Derbyshire HQ once every quarter.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver core OH services — pre-employment screening, management referrals, and health surveillance. Managing complex case referrals and sickness absence cases, providing clinical decisions and advising on workplace wellbeing
- Provide day-to-day leadership, mentorship and support for OH clinical team; manage reviews, appraisals and clinical complaints/investigations
- Lead clinical governance processes, ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice
- Work closely with senior stakeholders to improve clinical outcomes and service delivery
- Provide expert clinical advice and produce high-quality reports.
- Oversee clinical service delivery to ensure adherence to individual and departmental KPIs and SLAs.
- Contribute to health promotion, policy development, and service improvement.
Experience:
- Must hold a valid NMC registration with an active PIN and a post-registration recognised qualification (eg specialist degree/diploma in Occupational Health)
- Proven track record in clinical leadership, people management and quality assurance auditing within an occupational health environment (or equivalent setting)
- Proven experience managing an autonomous OH caseload, including complex case management
- Experience developing clinical governance frameworks and improving service delivery
- Strong understanding of OH legislation and best practice
- Excellent communication and report-writing skills
- Desirable: Experience in the Education sector or EAP / Wellbeing service environment.
- Desirable: Knowledge of SEQOHS and ISO compliance standards.
Pay: £55,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Work Location: Remote
