Health Practitioner

Sappi

  • Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
We are hiring!We're on the lookout for an experienced Occupational Health Practitioner to ensure the maintenance of a sustainable, healthy workforce. This role is responsible for establishing support functions that enhance employee health, safety, and productivity, while implementing systems that ensure compliance with all relevant legislation in an agricultural/rural environment.As a Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for:Occupational Health
  • Monitor employee health, implement remedial actions, and correct deviations.
  • Ensure compliance with legal requirements relating to occupational health and safety.
  • Identify and control occupational and environmental hazards through continuous assessment and preventative measures.
  • Manage adverse health effects arising from workplace conditions, including work-related injuries, illness, rehabilitation, reintegration, and compensation.
  • Ensure appropriate staff deployment aligned with inherent job requirements and potential exposure risks.
  • Provide employee training and education relevant to workplace health and safety risks.
Primary Health Care
  • Deliver a Primary Health Care programme to employees, including:
  • Assessing, diagnosing, and treating non-work-related illnesses and injuries.
  • Family planning, vaccination, and immunisation programmes.
  • Monitoring chronic conditions and facilitating access to medication.
  • Health education initiatives.
  • Providing non-occupational emergency medical support.
Clinic Management
  • Provide professional health and wellbeing advice to line management.
  • Assist in the development and implementation of health policies and procedures, ensuring legal compliance.
  • Build and maintain constructive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensure accurate, timely reporting of occupational health issues.
  • Maintain quality data collection, benchmarking, analysis, and reporting.
  • Manage clinic budgets responsibly.
  • Drive continuous improvement through formalised, data-driven monitoring and evaluation processes.
What are we looking for?
  • National Diploma/Degree in Nursing
  • Diploma in Occupational Health
  • Registered Audiometrist
  • Certificate in Spirometry
  • Dispensing Certificate
  • Registration with the South African Nursing Council (SANC) and the South African Society for Occupational Health Nurses (SASOHN)
  • Code EB driver's licence (manual)
  • At least 3 years' experience in the Occupational Health field
  • HCT (Health Care Initiated Testing) training
  • HIV Management course
What's in it for you?
  • Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence.
  • Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi.
  • Opportunities to travel (dependent on upon the role).
  • Market leading leave benefits.
  • Employee well-being benefits.
We are hiring!We're on the lookout for an experienced Occupational Health Practitioner to ensure the maintenance of a sustainable, healthy workforce. This role is responsible for establishing support functions that enhance employee health, safety, and productivity, while implementing systems that ensure compliance with all relevant legislation in an agricultural/rural environment.As a Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for:Occupational Health
  • Monitor employee health, implement remedial actions, and correct deviations.
  • Ensure compliance with legal requirements relating to occupational health and safety.
  • Identify and control occupational and environmental hazards through continuous assessment and preventative measures.
  • Manage adverse health effects arising from workplace conditions, including work-related injuries, illness, rehabilitation, reintegration, and compensation.
  • Ensure appropriate staff deployment aligned with inherent job requirements and potential exposure risks.
  • Provide employee training and education relevant to workplace health and safety risks.
Primary Health Care
  • Deliver a Primary Health Care programme to employees, including:
  • Assessing, diagnosing, and treating non-work-related illnesses and injuries.
  • Family planning, vaccination, and immunisation programmes.
  • Monitoring chronic conditions and facilitating access to medication.
  • Health education initiatives.
  • Providing non-occupational emergency medical support.
Clinic Management
  • Provide professional health and wellbeing advice to line management.
  • Assist in the development and implementation of health policies and procedures, ensuring legal compliance.
  • Build and maintain constructive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensure accurate, timely reporting of occupational health issues.
  • Maintain quality data collection, benchmarking, analysis, and reporting.
  • Manage clinic budgets responsibly.
  • Drive continuous improvement through formalised, data-driven monitoring and evaluation processes.
What are we looking for?
  • National Diploma/Degree in Nursing
  • Diploma in Occupational Health
  • Registered Audiometrist
  • Certificate in Spirometry
  • Dispensing Certificate
  • Registration with the South African Nursing Council (SANC) and the South African Society for Occupational Health Nurses (SASOHN)
  • Code EB driver's licence (manual)
  • At least 3 years' experience in the Occupational Health field
  • HCT (Health Care Initiated Testing) training
  • HIV Management course
What's in it for you?
  • Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence.
  • Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi.
  • Opportunities to travel (dependent on upon the role).
  • Market leading leave benefits.
  • Employee well-being benefits.
Sappi is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At Sappi, we encourage and support vaccination.Sappi is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. At Sappi, we encourage and support vaccination.ABOUT SAPPISappi is a leading global provider of everyday materials made from woodfibre-based renewable resources. As a diversified, innovative and trusted leader focused on sustainable processes and products, we are building a more circular economy by making what we should, not just what we can.

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