Senior Occupational Health & Wellbeing Manager

Senior Occupational Health & Wellbeing Manager

Location: Birmingham
Salary: £67,500–£77,474 + Package
Working pattern: Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office or on site
Employment type: Permanent

Bryan & Armstrong is supporting HS2 with the recruitment of an experienced Senior Occupational Health & Wellbeing Manager to join its Birmingham-based Occupational Health and Wellbeing team.

This is a senior and influential opportunity to help shape, develop and deliver occupational health and wellbeing services across one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure programmes.

The successful candidate will provide specialist advice across the business, lead occupational health assurance activity and work closely with senior stakeholders, delivery teams and supply-chain partners to improve health outcomes and support the continued development of HS2’s Occupational Health and Wellbeing strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of the Occupational Health and Wellbeing strategy.
• Manage and monitor Occupational Health and Wellbeing service providers.
• Lead occupational health assurance activity across the supply chain.
• Undertake contractor prequalification and tender evaluations.
• Collect, analyse and report occupational health data to identify trends and improve performance.
• Develop occupational health standards, policies and improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of services, interventions and wellbeing programmes.
• Provide expert advice to senior stakeholders, HR, Health and Safety teams, engineering functions and joint-venture health leads.
• Promote early intervention, prevention and improved health outcomes across the organisation and wider programme.

Essential requirements

• Registered General Nurse with a recognised Occupational Health qualification at degree or master’s level, or a BSc in Community Nursing Occupational Health with specialist practitioner status recorded by the NMC.
• Experience managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing services within a major project, programme or similarly complex organisation.
• Strong experience implementing occupational health and wellbeing strategy.
• Experience undertaking assurance of third-party providers and supply-chain organisations.
• Strong project-management, analytical and data-reporting skills.
• Excellent influencing, negotiation and stakeholder-engagement capability.
• Up-to-date knowledge of occupational health legislation, regulatory requirements and best practice.
• Ability to operate confidently as a senior subject-matter expert.

The opportunity

This role offers the chance to make a meaningful contribution to the health and wellbeing of employees and supply-chain partners across a nationally important infrastructure programme.

You will work in a visible role with significant autonomy, helping to improve standards, strengthen assurance and ensure occupational health is treated with the same focus and importance as safety.

For a confidential discussion, please apply or contact Paul Armstrong.

All applications will be handled in the strictest confidence.

Bryan & Armstrong Ltd is a specialist Health & Safety recruiter, supplying Health & Safety professionals on an interim and permanent basis across the following disciplines: Health & Safety, Health, Safety & Environment, SHEQ, CDM, Fire, Environmental, Quality Management and Health, Safety, Environment & Quality Systems.

Bryan & Armstrong Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers.