Occupational Health Technician

Folkestone, England, United Kingdom

12/18/2024

We have exciting opportunity for an Occupational Health Technician to join our team. The vacancy is predominantly Working on one client site in Folkstone but there will be a requirement to travel further afield with prior notice and occasional overnight stays. You will ensure the delivery of class leading service, conducting health surveillance, fitness for work health screening and health promotion to clients. The work is delivered at in a suitable room on client sites or from mobile screening units or RPS Clinics.

The salary for this role will be £25,000 - £27,000 per annum, with the option for overtime to take you to around £30,000 per annum.

Who We Are

Join RPS Occupational Health, a dynamic workplace that prioritises employee support and development. Our team fosters a culture of trust, respect, and collaboration, with shared goals for individual and company success.

We emphasise quality over quantity, limiting case management assessments to six per day for manageable workloads and superior service, boosting staff morale and retaining our staff for the long term. With extensive induction, ongoing training, and peer support, our staff excel as trusted experts, empowered to make decisions autonomously.

Enjoy excellent reward packages, a diverse and inclusive culture, and ample opportunities for career advancement within our organisation, including internal promotions where possible. Experience flexible working arrangements and a supportive community culture, while tackling a variety of work with nationwide clients. Join our team of Occupational Health professionals and discover why we're the top choice in our field.

We’re RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. And where you’ll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Health Surveillance
• Audiometry and Spirometry
• Skin assessments and Hand Arm Vibration (Tier 1 & 2)
• Fitness for work medicals (i.e. driver, working at height medicals or vision screening)
• Drug & alcohol testing
• Wellbeing medical and health promotion
  
  

Who We’re Looking For

• Previous Occupational Health experience inc. health surveillance and/or fitness for work medicals. Ideally previous experience of Rail medicals.
• Able to complete overnight stays and extensive travel throughout the UK (overnight stays maybe Monday – Friday depending on client requirements)
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Competent IT user (MS office suite and/or electronic medical records systems)
• Ability to work autonomously
• Great communication skills
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We support our people to innovate, collaborate and build meaningful careers. Here you’ll find true support and encouragement. We’re an accredited training provider and we support learning and development for everyone. A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

RPS, a Tetra Tech Company

RPS, part of Tetra Tech since January 2023, is a global firm that defines, designs, and manages projects in urbanisation, natural resources, and sustainability. As part of Tetra Tech’s 28,000-strong team across 550 offices in over 120 countries, we deliver solutions that create lasting value in an increasingly urbanised and resource-scarce world. By leveraging our global expertise, we enable our clients to develop winning solutions for their clients and communities.

As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to provide market-leading development and project opportunities for our people, supporting their growth while addressing the challenges that matter. Our people drive our success, and this is where you come to build a career.

What happens next?

If we feel you are a good match you will have an initial chat with one of our clinical staff. If we still feel we could work together you will then be booked in for a more formal competency-based interview.

If this opportunity suits your career journey, we’d love to hear from you. All applications will be considered. Ready to apply? Please have your CV ready and continue with your application online.

We know we develop better solutions together. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.

Recruitment Agencies We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.