Senior Occupational Health Business Partner | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Southend University Hospital NHS Trust
Salary:	£66,582 - £77,368 Fringe Allowance (5%) / Recruitment & Retention Premia £5,000 p.a
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Basildon, SS16 5NL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Sept 2026
Closing date:	9 Oct 2026

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Summary

Senior Occupational Health Business Partner

Are you an experienced Occupational Health leader ready to make a strategic impact across one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country?

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Occupational Health Business Partner to support and develop Occupational Health services across all three Mid and South Essex sites. Working with a high degree of autonomy, you will provide operational and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality Occupational Health services.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, overseeing service performance, staffing, skill mix and case management, while driving continuous improvement, efficiency and innovation. Working closely with senior leaders, you will support the commercial growth of Occupational Health services through market insight, customer engagement and contract development opportunities.

As a visible role model, you will champion the Trust's values, promote workforce wellbeing and support the delivery of organisational priorities. You will also deputise for the Associate Director of Occupational Health when required.

This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking Occupational Health professional with strong leadership skills, commercial awareness and a passion for service development to help shape the future of Occupational Health across Mid and South Essex.

Provide strategic and operational leadership for Occupational Health services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, effective and responsive clinical and case management services.

Lead on complex case management, sickness absence management and workforce health initiatives, providing expert occupational health advice to managers, senior leaders and key stakeholders.

Oversee service performance through the development, monitoring and reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs), ensuring continuous improvement and achievement of service objectives.

Lead clinical governance activities, including audits, risk assessments, incident investigations and compliance with professional, regulatory and organisational standards.

Drive the development, implementation and review of Occupational Health policies, procedures and health and well-being strategies to support workforce health and organisational priorities.

Manage, support and develop the Occupational Health team, promoting professional development, workforce planning, recruitment and high levels of staff performance and engagement.

Lead innovation and service improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance service delivery, efficiency and employee health outcomes.

Contribute to the commercial development of the service through contract management, external partnerships and stakeholder engagement, representing Occupational Health at a senior level both internally and externally.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached Job Description.

This role will also in addition be remunerated with + Fringe Allowance (5%) + Recruitment & Retention Premia £5,000 per annum

We look forward to your application!

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.

This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Sep 2026

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