Health Checks

Please select a letter from the A-Z list below:

On starting employment, you can choose to access a special Healthcare policy through ‘Healthsure’, starting from under £2 per week, which will provide you with health cheques towards an extensive range of essential healthcare expenses. If you wish to join, please contact the HR Department for further information.

After completion of one year’s service, you will automatically benefit from a Leeds Hospital Fund Healthplan at no cost to you. This is paid for by the University and allows you to claim back expenses on certain medical treatments. The HR Department will contact LHF once you have completed a year’s service and you will be sent a pack which contains details of your allowances.

For more information on the Healthplan

Health Checks through Occupational Health

York St John University values the contribution of all staff and is committed to promoting and maintaining the health and wellbeing of all our employees. Therefore through our Occupational Health Policy we will seek to ensuring that the potential for ill health or injury arising from university activities or premises is minimised at source to the lowest level that is reasonably practicable.

Some staff because of their role may be exposed to specific workplace hazards which could potentially cause harm and as a result the University will arrange health checks or health screening in respect of these hazards to seek to identify any indications of adverse affects and to take action to prevent or minimise these in future. Currently health screening is offered to certain university Technicians, and to our Maintenance and Grounds Teams to screen for:

Hand/Arm Vibration
Noise
Lung Function

This Health Screening is arranged by the Health & Safety Officer in conjunction with HR and is additional to the normal access to Occupational Health which all staff have the potential to access through HR to assist in the early identification and management of occupational ill health.

More information on our Occupational Health Policy and associated guidance for staff and managers is available from the HR website: Occupational Health Policy

For additional information on Occupational Health and Health Screening/Healthchecks go to:

HSE guidance http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ohindex.htm
UCEA/HSE publication ‘Improving service delivery in universities and colleges through better occupational health’ http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/misc743.pdf