Contract
25 Aug 2023
London , United Kingdom
Occupational Health Physician (Consultant) & Medical Adviser
Occupational Health Physician and Medical Adviser Location: London, UK Hybrid - ...
Occupational Health Physician and Medical Adviser
Location: London, UK
Hybrid - Ideally 3x week in the office
Start date: August or September 2023
Duration: 3 months minimum
Hours of work: 9am - 5pm local time
Reports to: UK Health Manager
Purpose
To provide expert medical advice, guidance and support in specific fields of occupational and environmental health to management and staff of our company in line with our Health standards, protocols and business performance monitoring and reporting.
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To undertake a variety of occupational health assessments including but not limited to; preemployment, offshore medicals, transfer medicals, short- and long-term business assignment medicals worldwide, consultations, fit to return to work medicals and ill health retirement and pension criteria reviews.
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To support us with new health business initiatives where practically feasible and provide input into ways of working that helps delivers efficiencies.
Personal Characteristics
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In an ever-changing world where priorities vary on a daily basis, this job demands a person who is reliable, flexible, can deal with many different strands/elements of work and possesses excellent tacit and soft skills.
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Technical knowledge of the occupational health is not sufficient on its own.
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The individual needs to demonstrate their ability to innovate and help the business through development of digitalisation, simplification and worker welfare.
Nature and Scope of Position
? To work as a member of the Shell Health Occupational Health Team based in London but working across a wider UK OH team.
? The Shell London Occupational Health Department provides occupational health support, a health screening service and clinical advice to Shell UK Employees.
? Advice and assistance is also given to offshore medics.
? The Medical Adviser will be under the supervision of the UK Health Manager, and will work in Shell Centre, London.
? The current workload requires 1 part time Medical Adviser.
? The role is working within the Oil/Gas/Energy Industry.
Experience and Qualifications
? Fully registered Medical Practitioner with the GMC and has a recognised qualification in Occupational Medicine.
? Experience working in the field of Occupational Medicine in the Oil and Gas Industry is a plus.
? Keyboard skills and familiarity with common Microsoft packages.
? An Oil & Gas UK registered doctor is a plus.
? Experience in travel medicine would be preferred.
? Candidate should have medical background (requires to be an OEUK registered doctor).
Principal Accountabilities
1. Fitness to work planning, assessment and screening as per the Health fitness to work standards and protocols and the OEUK Medical Aspects of Fitness for Offshore Work Guidance.
1. All types of health surveillance required as per the Health Medical Surveillance protocol and in compliance with UK legislation.
2. Sickness Absence Case Management including periodic review with Management and Human Resources. Return to work rehabilitation. This requires managing a database with monthly reporting of sickness absence in terms of days lost, incidence new cases and nature of illness.
3. Proactive liaison with General Practitioners and Medical Specialists in relation to employee illness and medical incapacity.
4. Provision of Medical Emergency support at London, where the need arises. It should be noted that immediate first aid will be provided by the floor stewards and security.
5. Liaison with Health Providers and major contractors in respect of Medevac and incident management.
6. Advice and medical assistance to offshore medics and other HSE personnel.
7. Assessment, diagnosis, investigation and incident reporting of Occupational Illness cases as per the Minimum Health Management Standards and protocols.
8. Maintain records of all consultations and input health data into the health records and One Health IT tool.
9. Communication and presentations to management and employees on health related topics.
10. Review and analysis of health data for benchmarking and management reports in relation to early and successful return to work. Preventable medevacs, identification of hot spots within the business in relation to sickness absence and proactive management.
11. Business partnering with us on shared vision aspects with regards continuous improvement, ongoing efficiency savings with a focus on delivering value for money and cost saving opportunities.
12. Perform a leadership role within the clinic to ensure that continued progress against plans are made.
13. Involve themselves in 1 or more of the project items from the Health (priorities on a page) POAP.
14. Attend required regional and global health meetings along with regular attendance at clinic/team meetings and any wider HSE team meetings in order to continue the understanding of the business and keep traction on areas of work and demonstrate progression of these.
15. Comply with company and health policies & procedures.
16. Assist in any training/development opportunities for staff.
17. Attend any meetings on behalf of the health manager.
18. Develop knowledge of our Performance, monitoring and reporting system and participate in any internal/external investigations e.g. Incident review panels.
19. Manage health surveillance and provide training/education around this to the clinical team.
20. Expected to participate in clinical governance, audit and regular clinic meetings.
