The Vale Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort

Occupational health services
All Enquiries 029 20836700

Providing effective solutions for all your business needs Via a team of physicians and nurses trained in occupational health, we aim to provide a high quality occupational health advice to clients through a focussed, flexible and competitive approach, enabling us to tailor our services to your business needs.

Working both on and off site and in conjunction with The Vale Clinic we can also provide rapid access to specialist orthopaedic and medical opinions and physiotherapy services, helping to drive down the costs associated with lengthy spells of absence.

Services include advice regarding:

• occupational disease and injury
• sickness absence
• fitness for work
• Disability Discrimination Act 1995
• vocational rehabilitation
• ill health retirement
• first aid

We are also able to undertake:

• needs assessments
  Risk assessment
• Health surveillance
• legislative medicals
• policy formation

Who's in our team:-

Dr Joanna Lever MBBS,DA(UK),DRCOG, DOccMed.
Formerly a general practitioner has recently started working in occupational medicine. She has experience in absence management and fitness for work within local councils. She is able to provide specialist advice regarding fitness for driving duties through her role as a Medical Adviser for the DVLA.

Dr Sue Ensaff

B BCh., DCH, MRCGP, DOcc Med.
Dr. Sue Ensaff is a part time GP working in occupational health since 1999. She has experience in retail, white goods and the electronic industry. She has been an appointed doctor for lead. Her special interest is the Disability Discrimination Act and it's implications on fitness for work and rehabilitation

Vale Clinic on-site physiotherapy

Is a private clinic providing physiotherapy and osteopathy services by experienced State Registered clinicians. The Vale Clinic is also the base for eight orthopaedic consultants covering a wide range of specialities. The services of the clinic are supported by on site radiology and MRI facilities.

Maintaining a healthy workforce is vital in order to maximise productivity and reduce sickness and absence. Given the varied roles that the employees undertake, it is an unfortunate consequence that injuries may occur. For staff, who are unable to perform their work due to physical incapacity will enter a cycle of reduced strength and mobility leading to greater pain and further reduction in function. This can lead to increased pressure of work on their colleagues with its concomitant detrimental effects. The aim of The Vale Clinic's managed care program is to interrupt that cycle early in order to return your staff to their role as quickly as is possible. In situations where that may not be possible, we are able to fast track patients to one of our consultant surgeons or physicians specialising in the relevant area.

The proposed scheme of therapy support is flexible and can be tailored to the requirements of the company and financial budgets. The Vale Clinic clinicians are experienced in providing on site services liasing with existing occupational health services. This can often include workplace assessment, ergonomics, and best practice assessment for repetitive or heavy tasks. Lectures and talks on back care and healthy posture in the workplace can also be arranged for staff.

Vale Healthcare

The Vale Clinic is part of Vale Healthcare. For more information about Vale Healthcare and their specialist sports injury, back pain, joint pain (incuding shoulder, knee, hip, foot and ankle, hand and wrist clinics), breast care and all of the above services call 029 2083 6700 visit Vale Healthcare at www.vale-healthcare.com