Occupational Health Physicians are doctors who specialise in the relationship between health and work. They handle the most complex cases — ill-health retirement, disability and capability decisions, fitness for safety-critical work — and provide clinical leadership to OH teams. Permanent, sessional and remote roles are all common.
OH physicians work for OH providers, large corporates, the NHS and government bodies — permanently, sessionally (by the day) or as remote clinicians running management-referral clinics.
Experienced OH physicians are scarce. We have recently sourced a physician able to deliver remote management-referral clinics for a client who had struggled to fill the role. Permanent, sessional or remote — we will give you an honest view of availability before you commit.
Typically complex referrals and capability cases, clinical oversight and supervision of OH nurses, governance work, and increasingly remote clinics.
GMC registration plus occupational medicine qualifications — typically AFOM or MFOM from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. Consultant roles usually require specialty training.
Yes — many start with sessional OH work alongside general practice and complete the AFOM.
Yes. Remote management-referral clinics are increasingly common, alongside site-based and hybrid roles.
Yes — sessional, contract and permanent.
Completely. Senior conversations are handled personally by a director, and nothing moves without your agreement.
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