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Occupational Health and Wellbeing
People are the greatest asset of any business
Our job as an Occupational Health and Wellbeing service is to work in partnership with you to help safeguard the health and wellbeing of your employee. Employers that focus on the health and wellbeing of their people are more likely to attract and retain the very best. This is why we designed our services, to help you build resilience into your work place, reduce absence, improve productivity, and increase the morale and motivation of your people.
We’re here to help, whether your needs are current or in the future with no obligation. You can request a call-back from Occupational Health to answer any query you have. Alternatively, you can contact us by telephone for an informal chat, drop us an email or complete the enquiry request form, it's that simple.
Solent NHS Trust is able to offer a flexible competitively priced, quality occupational health services to businesses. A good occupational health service provider can help you to keep your people well, happy and safe, and there is no better partner than the NHS, universally trusted!
As Solent NHS Trust Occupational Health and Wellbeing services we benefit from a good working knowledge of the NHS helping our clients to navigate clinical pathways and access to wider health expertise when this is needed. We aim to provide a flexible service that offers a range of different services to support your health, safety and wellbeing at work. Support with self–management is encouraged and we provide a range of information and resources.
We can help you with:
- Improving morale, job satisfaction and motivation
- Improved productivity and resilience in the workplace
- Minimising the risk of work related illness, early interventions and rehabilitation
- Reducing absence
- Help you meet your legislative responsibilities
- Provide you with information to help raise awareness on prevention and services available
Please call us on 0300 123 3392 for an informal chat with no commitment or email us through our contact form.
Whether it is a pre-employment health assessment or the rehabilitation of someone returning to work, our Fit 4 Work service can help your people successfully through these transitions.
You can learn more about:
- Sickness absence / Ill-health affecting work performance
- Ill-health retirement
- Advise on workplace adjustments and provision of a fitness for work report
- Self / management referrals
- Fit for work assessment e.g. Driver Medicals, Night Workers
Pre-employment / new entrant health checks:
- An online work health assessment form
- Consideration of health concerns /potential job hazards and any Equality Act implications
- Advise on workplace adjustments and provision of a fitness for work report
- Establish a baseline assessment of work health needs
Rehabilitation:
- Programmes designed to support a return to work after illness and maintain work attendance
- Assessment and treatment programmes delivered in the most appropriate setting to achieve the best outcomes delivered by experienced Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapist
- Advise on workplace adjustments
Focusing on employee wellbeing and creating a healthier work environment could help to save your business money, increase productivity and retain the skills and experience of a motivated workforce.
- Healthy lifestyles
- Wellbeing and engagement
- Resilience
- Prevention / early intervention & self -management
- Healthy work environment
- Campaigns
- Self-help tools
- Information resources e.g. Newsletters, posters, leaflets
- Advice line for managers
- Drop in sessions
- Wellbeing checks
- Back awareness training
- Stress buster workshop
- Mindfulness taster sessions
- Wellbeing champions and welfare initiatives
The health, wellbeing and safety of your people has a direct impact on the productivity and profitability of your business. Occupational Health can help with preventing ill health effects from work hazard/exposure that an employee may experience; whether it is preventing workplace accidents and injuries, providing immunisations or health surveillance required by law. Our NHS staff have experience of working with different types of employers from a range of industries.
Accidents and injuries at work
- Risk assessment
- Clinical / environmental assessment, screening, immunisation
- Prevention awareness and advice
Immunisations
- Protect your employees from harmful exposures to workplace hardards
- Screening to monitor immunity to harmful diseases
- Protection against influenza
Health Surveillance
Examples of work place hazardous covered under health surveillance programmes provided by Solent:
- noise or vibration
- solvents and chemicals
- dust and fumes
- lead
Workplace assessments
- Ergonomic assessment
- Workstation assessments
Contact Information
OHbusinessservices@solent.nhs.uk
Brambles Bungalow, Level A Royal South Hants Hospital, Brintons Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YG
Opening hours
- Monday, 9am - 5pm
- Tuesday, 9am - 5pm
- Wednesday, 9am - 5pm
- Thursday, 9am - 5pm
- Friday, 9am - 5pm
Special Notice
You can request a call-back from Occupational Health to answer any query you have. Alternatively, you can contact us by telephone for an informal chat, drop us an email or complete the enquiry request using the link above.