Occupational Health AdviserCouncil

Key details

• Reference: 26-33314
• Directorate: Corporate Services
• Service: Health, Safety and Welfare
• Type and hours: Permanent | 37 Hour
• Pay Scale: PS1

Job Advertisement

Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pack

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.

(Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)

For further information about this post please contact Nicola Elizabeth Coulter on 01286 679329 or via e-mail [email protected]

Interview date: 03/12/2026

Application forms are available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

E-Mail: [email protected]

CLOSING DATE: 10:00 AM, 23/11/2026

The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.

If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.

Person Specification

Personal attributes

Essential

•Good communication skills able to demonstrate progressiveness

•Work flexibly with a team framework

•Committed to achievement and able recognise opportunities to improve the service

Desirable

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Qualifications and relevant training

Essential

•Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the register

•Evidence of continuing professional and personal development

Desirable

•Diploma in Occupational Health Nursing

•Training qualification

Relevant experience

Essential

•Minimum two years post registration experience

•Experience of delivering evidence based clinical practice in a previous post

•Multi-disciplinary experience

Desirable

•Experience of working in Occupational Health

•Experience in delivering presentations and / or training sessions

•Experience of conducting audits

•Training and mentoring experience

•Experience of policy development and / or leading on projects

•Past involvement in health promotion initiatives

Skills and specialist knowledge

Essential

•Full understanding on NMC code of Practice and clinical governance arrangements

•Good inter-personal skills and able to deal sensitively with individuals who are suffering physical or psychological illness

•Work effectively under pressure

•Solid presenting skills

•Solid computing skills to include the Microsoft Office package

Desirable

•The understanding on health and safety regulations in relation to health surveillance

Language requirements

Listening and Speaking - Higher

Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.Able to give a pre-prepared presentation and respond to any comments and questions on it in Welsh or English.

Reading and Understanding - Higher

Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.Able to gather information from various sources such as letters, reports, articles through the medium of Welsh and English in order to fulfil the post.

Writing - Higher

Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).

Job Description

Purpose of the post

•To provide an internal advisory occupational health service to the Council and external clients and promote and implement return-to-work plans and take responsibility for providing specialist and professional advice on sickness absences.

•Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the centre of everything we do.

Responsibility for functions

•Professional supervision only for the Occupational Health Officer

Main duties

•Work as part of a small team to formulate, screen referrals and prioritise the Occupational Health Unit's work programme ensuring that the Council's internal needs and external agreements are met.

•Contribute to the assessment of all the occupational health needs of the Council and any other organisation that receives a service from the Unit and to take a key role in planning, implementing and evaluating the arrangements that are in place.

•Advise managers and staff at all levels within the organisation on occupational health issues and refer appropriate matters to the attention of the Occupational Health Physician.

•Supervise the clinical elements (only) of the work of the Occupational Health Officer.

•Undertake assessments of the medical condition of staff when absent from work and monitor progress regularly.

•Assist managers to undertake risk assessments involving occupational health hazards.

•Undertake checks of pre-employment questionnaires to come to a conclusion regarding the health condition of prospective staff.

•Support employees in the workplace or after returning to work and advise individuals and managers as appropriate, and avoid attempting to provide medical care normally undertaken by the GP.

•Organise and implement a health surveillance programme.

•Undertake specific health surveillance tests, e.g. respiratory, skin, hearing.

•Organise and act on health promotion campaigns within the Council.

•Organise and deliver health programmes to respond to national health campaigns within the Council's workforce, e.g. a seasonal flu vaccination programme.

•Take responsibility for all professional advice offered to individual managers and staff.

•Take responsibility for keeping appropriate records in relation to all advice, tests or treatment given and that those records are handled and retained in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.

•Develop developmental/proactive policies and projects, deliver and coordinate specific training for Council stakeholders relating to the health of the Council's workforce and/or reducing absences.

•Consult and closely collaborate with Personnel Officers and Health and Safety Advisers and with Human Resources Advisers to provide the best possible service to the customer.

•Responsible for self-development.

•Coordinate and implement applications for retirement due to illness.

•Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.

•Operate within the Council’s policies and procedures in relation to equal opportunities and equality.

•Responsibility for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management standards and guidelines. Ensure that personal information is handled in accordance with Data Protection legislation.

•Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s carbon footprint.

•Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.⁠

•Responsible for reporting any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.

Special circumstances

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