About

Lindsay Risley (Specialist Occupational Health Nurse Advisor)

My nursing career began in 2001 when I joined the British Army as a Private soldier. What followed was a career spanning more than two decades, taking me from the early stages of military nursing through clinical practice, operational deployments and senior clinical leadership. In 2023, I retired from the Army at the rank of Major, having progressed through the ranks from where my military career began as a Private.

I qualified as a nurse in 2005 and went on to complete a specialist degree in Critical Care in 2008 and a PGCert in Pain Management in 2010. During my military career, I deployed operationally on three occasions, once to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan.

Those experiences played a significant part in shaping me as both a clinician and a leader. Working in demanding environments taught me the importance of staying calm under pressure, making balanced clinical decisions, and understanding the relationship between a person's health, their work, and the environment in which they work.

As my career progressed, I moved into clinical leadership roles within critical care before making the transition into Occupational Health in 2018. I subsequently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Health Nursing (Occupational Health), building on my wider clinical and leadership experience with specialist occupational health practice.

Since moving into Occupational Health, I have held senior clinical leadership roles, led regional occupational health services and been involved in developing and writing occupational health strategy. I continue to support organisations in developing their occupational health approach, helping them create services that are clinically robust, practical and aligned to the needs of both their workforce and organisation.

Why I established ServiceLine Occupational Health

My experience has taught me that good occupational health is about much more than producing a report or deciding whether someone is fit for work.

At its best, Occupational Health should provide employers with clear, impartial and evidence-based clinical advice that enables them to make informed decisions, while ensuring employees are treated fairly, professionally and with respect.

That principle sits at the heart of ServiceLine Occupational Health.

I established ServiceLine to provide employers with a responsive and personal Occupational Health service, combining more than two decades of nursing and clinical leadership experience with a practical understanding of the challenges organisations face when managing health and work.

As an independent practitioner, I want clients to know who they are dealing with and to have confidence in the advice they receive. Through ServiceLine Occupational Health, I provide a range of services including management referrals, pre-employment and fitness assessments, health surveillance, medicals and occupational health consultancy, alongside support for organisations looking to develop or strengthen their occupational health provision and strategy.

After more than two decades in nursing, clinical leadership and Occupational Health, I remain passionate about providing a service that is clinically credible, independent, pragmatic and personal.

For me, ServiceLine brings all of that experience together. It allows me to offer organisations high-quality Occupational Health advice while retaining the personal, responsive approach that I believe makes a genuine difference to clients and their employees.

Lindsay Risley
Head of Occupational Health
ServiceLine Occupational Health Ltd

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