Preliminary Market Engagement for Occupational Health Services - Staff and Students

The University of Nottingham (UoN) requires an Occupational Health Service Provider (the Provider) to support the pro-active management of staff and students' health and wellbeing.

The requirement is for the Provider to: Staff/Candidates - • Undertake an ongoing health surveillance programme in line with legislation and UoN requirements (job role dependant).

This includes but is not limited to roles in Estates and Facilities, Laboratory Technicians and Academic staff within Engineering, Social Science, Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences and Arts Faculties. • Undertake health clearance for candidates within a timeframe aligned to the commencement of their hire date. • Provide and undertake a staff referral process to give line managers occupational health advice to support with fit to work processes such as reasonable adjustments, absence management, phased return to work and ill health retirement. • Provide relevant immunisations for staff members within timeframes aligned to best practice/legislation/UoN policy.

Student • Undertake health clearance/fit to study certification for students on relevant courses within a timeframe aligned to the commencement of their course. • Undertake student fitness to practise checks for those on regulated courses as required by professional and statutory bodies • Provide relevant immunisations for students on relevant courses within a timeframe aligned to the commencement of placement activity. • Provide and undertake a student referral process to give Faculty managers occupational health advice to support fitness to study processes, including attendance at university and their attendance on placement where relevant. • Conduct relevant health surveillance in line with legislative requirements.

The main aims of the Occupational Health Services are as follows. • To give the UoN access to market leading occupational health systems and resources. • Provide efficient and customer focused occupational health processes and systems to staff, line managers and students. • Make proactive interventions to improve the UoN staff and student health and wellbeing • Provide the UoN with clinical/expert occupational health advice to support with the management of staff and students. • To support the UoN to be compliant with relevant Health and Safety legislation by providing expert and clinical occupational health knowledge and advice to make sure systems and processes are up to date.

The UoN has over 8000 staff members and 34,000 students.

The UoN has identified the following occupational health risks linked to specific job roles - driving; animal allergens; spirometry; ionising radiation; biological agents; food handling; HAV's; night work; noise; skin/respiratory sensitisers and skin irritants.