Occupational Health Manager

Salary For This Role:

Starting Salary £53,000

Job Title:

Occupational Health Manager

Reports To:

Graeme Harkess

Closing Date:

13/Oct/2025 23.59 GMT

Job Description:

Occupational Health Manager

Details Of The Role:

Working pattern: Monday – Friday. This is a full-time, permanent position on Crick terms and conditions of employment.

Application closing date: 13th of October 2025

About Us

The Francis Crick Institute is Europe’s largest biomedical research institute under one roof. Our world-class scientists and staff collaborate on vital research to help prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases and neurodegenerative conditions. 

The Crick is a place for collaboration, innovation and exploration across many disciplines. A space where the brightest minds can pursue big and bold ideas and discover answers to crucial scientific questions. We support them in a dynamic environment which fosters excellence with state-of-the-art infrastructure, cutting-edge facilities, and a creative and curious culture. We’ve removed traditional boundaries of departments, divisions and disciplines and instead have an open approach that supports every researcher. This gives us the freedom to take risks and carry out high-quality, pioneering research. Creating a space for discovery without boundaries helps us to turn our science into benefits for human health and the economy. 

About The Role

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Occupational Health Manager, passionate about staff wellbeing to lead occupational health at our world class research institute.

In this pivotal role, you’ll embed and manage our new occupational health service provider and manage the occupational health service contract with the outsourced supplier. As well as the day to day liaison with occupational health provider you will analyse our key performance indicators against service level agreements and be the point of escalation.

As the subject matter expert for all services relating to occupational health, you’ll champion health protection and promotion, support staff with underlying health conditions and disabilities, and work closely with our People Team to ensure services meet the needs of our diverse scientific community.

What you will be doing

As an Occupational Health Manager at the Crick, you will:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive occupational health strategy aligned with the Institute’s goals.
• Provide expert advice to the People Team, senior leadership, and line managers on occupational health matters
• Collaborate with the Health and Safety team on collective initiatives to support a healthy and safe workplace
• Act as the key liaison and contract manager for the external Occupational Health provider, ensuring effective service delivery against KPIs and SLAs.
• Schedule and coordinate services with suppliers to ensure future demand is met. Lead on tendering processes or contract renewal as needed.
• Coordinate and oversee health surveillance programmes in line with statutory requirements (e.g. COSHH, noise, respiratory health).
• Manage the reasonable adjustments budget & process, ensuring that all staff and students requiring adjustments have their needs met in a timely manner.

Please see full job description here

About You

You Will Have:

Essential

• Professional qualification in Occupational Health and/or Health and Safety with experience in Occupational Health matters.*
• Significant experience in occupational health service delivery, including managing external providers.*
• Strong understanding of UK occupational health legislation and workplace health risk assessment.*
• Experience in sourcing and tendering processes, following organisational risk analysis.*
• Experience in successful supplier management including effective handling of any performance issues
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills with proven experience of having worked closely with the Health & Safety team, People Team colleagues, staff networks and staff representatives and senior leaders
• Experience within higher education, scientific research, or a laboratory-based environment (Desirable)
• Familiarity with health hazards in scientific settings e.g. biological, chemical, ergonomic risks (Desirable)
• About Working at the Crick
• Experience within higher education, scientific research, or a laboratory-based environment (Desirable)
• Familiarity with health hazards in scientific settings e.g. biological, chemical, ergonomic risks (Desirable)
• About Working at the Crick

*Essential Criteria

Our Values

Everyone who works at the Crick has a valuable role to play in advancing the Crick’s mission and shaping our culture 

• We are bold. We make space for creative, dynamic and imaginative ideas and approaches. We’re not afraid to do things differently. 
• We are open. We’re highly collaborative and interactive, and make sure our activities are visible to the outside world. 
• We are collegial. We show respect for one another, work cooperatively and support the wider community. 

At the Francis Crick Institute, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to driving innovation and scientific discovery. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed, regardless of their background, identity, or personal circumstances. We actively encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ethnicities, abilities, and experiences. We are a Disability Confident: Committed employer and want to ensure that everyone can apply and be part of our recruitment processes and so we'll make reasonable adjustments if you need them - just let us know when you apply. If you need assistance with applying (i.e., would like to apply by phone or post) please email: karen.au@crick.ac.uk

Find out more about life at the Crick.

What will you receive?  

At the Francis Crick Institute, we value our team members and are proud to offer an extensive range of benefits to support their well-being and development: 

• Visas: Applicants for this role will be eligible for sponsorship to work in the UK 
• Generous Leave: 28 days of annual leave, plus three additional days over Christmas and bank holidays. 
• Pension Scheme: Defined contribution pension with employer contributions of up to 16%. 
• 24/7 GP consultation services. 
• Occupational health services and mental health support programs. 
• Eye care vouchers and discounted healthcare plans. 
• Back-up care for dependents. 
• Annual leave purchase options. 
• Crick Networks offering diverse groups’ support, community and inclusive social events.
• Discounted gym memberships, bike-to-work scheme, and shopping discounts. 
• Pension Scheme: Defined contribution pension with employer contributions of up to 16%. 
• 24/7 GP consultation services. 
• Occupational health services and mental health support programs. 
• Eye care vouchers and discounted healthcare plans. 
• Back-up care for dependents. 
• Annual leave purchase options. 
• Crick Networks offering diverse groups’ support, community and inclusive social events.
• Discounted gym memberships, bike-to-work scheme, and shopping discounts. 

• Health & Well-Being:

• Work-Life Balance:

• Childcare Support Allowance.

• Perks:

• Subsidised on-site restaurant and social spaces for team interaction. 

Please note you must meet the essential criteria listed within the Role Profile, to have your application reviewed.  

We reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any given time due to the number of applications received.