Occupational Medicine ST3 

Occupational Medicine is an applied branch of medicine combining clinical practice with public health and organisational health and management There are a variety of occupational sectors which offers exciting opportunities to work in real life settings and to make a difference to the lives of the working age population. A varied career with movement across sectors is common, providing excellent experience and ongoing interest.  

This is for completion of CCT subject to satisfactory progression. 

Reasonable adjustments and Guaranteed Interview Scheme  

Please submit your request through your Oriel application form with your supporting documentation. For more information regarding the disability confident scheme please refer to https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

Eligibility Criteria for recruitment to Specialty Training

All applicants applying to medical specialties are required to have essential competences or equivalent depending on the level they are applying for. For more information on Occupational Medicine ST3 competences, please review the Occupational Medicine Eligibility Criteria

For applicants needing to complete an Occupational Medicine Certificate of Completion of Common Professional Capabilities, this can downloaded from “Files” page of this advert.  Note, we have attached a word document to enable you complete the form and a PDF to retain the content.

Please upload all required evidence of competences to your online application form when completing the application form online. For those experiencing difficulties when uploading evidence, please ensure you contact the London recruitment team.

Please note that there is a strict application policy that applications cannot be accepted after the deadline.

The training programme is equally open to those who may, either from the outset or subsequently, wish to train flexibly or job share.

Self-Assessment  

You will be required to complete a self-assessment as part of your Oriel application.

As part of the application process you must upload supporting evidence to justify the self-assessment achievements you claim on your application form. Failure to upload your supporting evidence may result in losing score. You should plan to have your documents ready to upload at point of application, the document upload window is available to view in the Occupational Medicine Applicant Guide. Guidance will be available Oriel on how to upload documents and it will be very important that applicants adhere to this to enable their evidence to be verified.

Eligibility Criteria for recruitment to Specialty Training – Immigration Requirements 

All medical practitioners are on the shortage occupation list, so all specialty recruitment applicants will be exempt from the resident labour market test

Key dates & information

For the full recruitment timeline, please refer to our recruitment website.

Interview dates:  Friday 28th March 2025 (subject to change)

Interview venue:  Online – Please ensure you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera. Further instructions will be supplied should you be invited to interview. 

Posts commence from: August 2025 

Interview process: All interviews will be held remotely.  For more information, please refer to https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/medical-specialty-training/occupational-medicine/occupational-medicine-st3/overview-of-occupational-medicine/overview-of-occupational-medicine

Preferencing Posts

Preferencing will be made available via Oriel, more information will follow at a later stage.

Contacts / Enquiries  

Please visit the Applicant Support Portal where you will find a series of FAQs, and you will be able to submit an enquiry to the London Recruitment Team. 

Fitness to Practise   

If you have made a positive declaration in the FTP section, you must contact the London office via the support portal by the close of the application window. Failure to provide the outlined information by the close of application may result in your application being withdrawn.  Please submit your Fitness to Practice request via the London Support Portal link.

Programmes 

Indicative post numbers for each region can be found on the Medical Training Recruitment website. Actual post numbers will be confirmed when invited to select programme preferences later in the round.