Occupational Health Advisor

As an Occupational Health Advisor, you’ll deliver the application of evidence based OH practice to a high standard in the workplace. You’ll be responsible for assessing the fitness of individual job applicants and workers for specific tasks, ensuring a good fit between applicants and job, recommending suitable adjustments to enable a person to undertake the work they have been selected to perform safely and effectively. You’ll case-manage workers who are on sick leave, working with other health professionals to ensure the earliest return of functional capacity and return to work. You’ll provide advice on the provision of safe and healthy conditions by informed clinical assessment of the physical and psychological aspects of the working environment.

By promoting compliance with relevant health and safety legislation, you’ll asses potential cases of occupational injuries and illness; investigating, managing, and reporting individual cases appropriately and establishing if this is a single case or if there is wider incidence. You’ll assist in the organization of health promotion activities and events and provide education and training on various departments within Harrods on matters related to occupational health and wellbeing.

This is a hybrid role that will be working 2-3 days from our office. 

About us

There’s no place like Harrods. Harrods has a reputation for excellence, artistry and being the world’s leading Luxury Department Store. Today, we are so much more than our beloved Knightsbridge store. Our wide-ranging portfolio and services include everything from dot com, to Harrods Aviation, to our in-store wellness clinic to world class Restaurants, to Virtual Personal Shopping, to our Corporate Health Service.

About you

You’ll be motivated in supporting innovative ways in delivering and OH service and able to set standards for delivery of care, seeking continuous improvement to achieve set targets. You’ll be dedicated to being a key part in the development of provision of commercial health services from clinical perspective. You should be able to ensure clinical governance and Data Protection compliance, actively maintaining inter-departmental communication between doctors, nurses and other departments.

More specifically, we are looking for:

• A Registered Nurse with a BSc (Hons) or BA (Hons) Occupational Health and be a Specialist Community Nurse Practitioner on the Nursing Midwifery Council register.
• A good team player with exemplary communication skills and ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Can deal with pressure and demanding situations and remains composed under such circumstances.
• Computer literate with a good knowledge of Word and Excel and medical/occupational health electronic systems.
• Flexible and adaptable in order to cope with the ever-increasing needs of the OH department.
• Possesses excellent communication skills and is able to communicate to Harrods Employees at all levels within the company.

Our promise to you

Culturally, we value difference and individuality. Your ideas and energy are going to shape every aspect of our people success in your division, but we’re not going to dictate how you achieve these results. Rather, we will give you the freedom to imprint your operating style on the role and help us create a remarkable, magical and memorable business for our customers.

As well as the support of a highly respected team of HR experts, you will find our business transformation creates a stimulating day-to-day environment and opens up a wealth of long-term career potential. Alongside this, you can look forward to an excellent package of benefits. This includes a company pension, flexible working, 25 days’ holiday and your birthday off, up to 33% in-store discount and a season ticket loan.

Uniquely You

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart.  We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive.  What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram.