Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to:

·        Have strong knowledge of workplace health and wellbeing, with understanding of internal and external practices, information, and support.

·        Participate in relevant meetings, take notes, collate and share information.

·        Contribute to improving the planning, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of projects to improve the health and wellbeing of colleagues.

·        Collate data and information to contribute to Senior Management Reports.

·        Participate fully as a team member, sharing knowledge and information, working effectively with wider multidisciplinary teams.

·        Support the objectives of the team, department, division and Trust.

·        Undertake any other administrative or organisational duties as required. 

Communication Skills and Working Relationships:

Communicates confidently and regularly with colleagues at all levels, e.g. delivering training, facilitating interventions, contributing to senior management reports, participating in multidisciplinary meetings, supporting vulnerable colleagues. 

Analytical and Judgement Skills:

Makes judgements on a range of health and wellbeing matters, e.g. methods of planning/implementing/coordinating/evaluating interventions, advising on appropriate pathways for colleagues requiring health and wellbeing support, understanding and responding to emerging themes in data and information. 

Planning and Organisational Skills:

Coordinates key health and wellbeing work, e.g. multi-disciplinary meetings, training programmes, targeted interventions, contributing to methods of meeting objectives of the team, department, division and Trust with respect to health and wellbeing. 

Freedom to Act:

Works largely independently to coordinate work against defined health and wellbeing objectives, supported by the Health and Wellbeing Business Partner using a hybrid model, to ideate solutions to key challenges, whilst maintaining adherence to best practices, e.g. Health and Safety at Work Act, Equality Act, NHS Health and Wellbeing Framework, internal policies and procedures. 

Management Responsibility:

Management of the day to day running of the health and wellbeing service. This may also include supervising colleagues gaining apprenticeships or other work experience in the team. 

Responsibility for Patient Care:

This role does not hold any responsibility for patient care. 

Responsibility for Policy/Service Development:

Participates in the development of policies and services that directly impact colleague health and wellbeing, providing commentary on best practice and effective implementation aligned to defined health and wellbeing objectives. 

Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources:                                

Manages stock, ordering and procuring health and wellbeing materials, e.g. signposting resources, branded materials, noticeboards. Monitors

budget use for health and wellbeing materials with support of Health and Wellbeing Business Partner. 

Responsibility for Information Resources:

Collates data and information for identification of trends and contribution to Senior Management Reports, e.g. health provider data, project or intervention data,  anecdotal feedback and qualitative data, external insights and developments, minutes for formal meetings (e.g. Operational Delivery Group).

Responsibility for Research and Development:

Responsible for indirectly supporting research and development into workplace health and wellbeing, providing justification for projects/initiatives undertaken, ensuring appropriate evidence based and data-driven approaches are recorded (Discover, Plan, Do, Check). 

Physical Skills/Physical Effort:

Mixed approach to sedentary and active work, with more frequent desk-based duties e.g. in-person events and initiatives, carrying light to moderate equipment or resources, traveling across large sites, traveling to and from sites, hybrid working. 

Mental Effort:

Consistent independent and multidisciplinary working, e.g. frequent meetings with colleagues at all levels, contribution to or reading of detailed reports, creating or checking communications, planning/implementation/coordination/evaluation of projects, working to deadlines or fixed timescales. 

Emotional Effort:

Directly and indirectly exposed to challenging health and wellbeing matters, e.g. signposting colleagues to appropriate support, working with multidisciplinary teams to resolve complex issues, understanding determinants of health both internally and externally, chairing difficult meetings with conflicting views.