Job summary
Working Well is commissioned by Essex County Council and sits within the Essex Wellbeing Service. This fast paced, innovative programme supports the national and local agenda around workplace health and wellbeing, ensuring that the Essex workforce is healthy and productive.
This specialist role requires experience and knowledge of health and wellbeing in the workplace, project management and excellent communication and IT skills.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a close-knit team the post holder will be responsible for promoting, onboarding and support Essex workplaces to develop a holistic health and wellbeing programme.
The role is home based, but there are regular team meetings at Provide sites, as well as workplace visits ,including the delivery of our SiSU Digital Health Check stations, and attending business networking events. It is essential that the post holder has a driving license and access to a car, as well as a good working knowledge of Essex.
The post holder will need to possess excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook and be willing to learn in-house booking and survey software.
The post holder should demonstrate a solution-focused attitude and an ability to work independently, but also collaboratively to meet project outcomes.
About us
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people's homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision:Transforming Lives
Values:Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission:An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men's Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of the job description and main responsibilities of this role, please see the attached job description. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of the job description and main responsibilities of this role, please see the attached job description. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Foundation degree/NVQ level 5 (or equivalent) and other demonstrable work-based experience
Desirable
- Evidence of commitment to CPD (health improvement, project management, IT packages)
- Understanding Health Improvement Level 2
- NCSCT qualification or willingness to undertake it
- Making Every Contact Count Training or willingness to undertake it
- RSPH Workplace Health Champion training or equivalent
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrable expereince of planning and organising complex activities or programmes using a range of IT packages i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, Word and survey platforms
- Complete in-depth employer wellbeing survey analysis and prepare a Wellbeing Action Plan with employers, taking into consideration the complexity of economic pressures and legal requirements and local considerations
- Understand the national and local/sector benchmarking data and providing input that will support an effective Wellbeing Strategy
- Proactive in working collaboratively to achieve service outcomes
- Ability to follow processes and procedures and make recommendations for changes to practice
Desirable
- Group facilitation skills
Circumstances
Essential
- Car owner and ability to drive and ability to drive and be able to travel various sites in Essex. Ability to drive the Provide Outreach vehicle
Work Related Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of project management or a similar role which has involved the management of multiple workstreams and achievement of KPIs in a business enviironment
- Experience in a workplace health improvement or HR role
- Demonstrable experience of analysing complex data and providing feedback on findings and providing bespoke innovative recommendations to employers
- Demonstrable understanding of behaviour change theory
- Clear and demonstrable understanding of health inequalities and explain how a wellbeing programme can reduce health risks and inequalities
- To be able to escalate clinical risks identified by the digital health check programme to employees and employers
- Experience of delivering presentations and guest speaker sessions at networking and business meetings
Desirable
- Experience of working in a public health community focussed setting i.e. volunteering
- Experience of using LMS and booking systems
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Solution Focused attitude
- Ability to work on own initiative using judgement skills to plan out work whilst meeting the required deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise with people at all levels in the workplace and with partner organisations
- Ability to communicate sensitive health information to employers and employees
Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to work occasional evening and weekends and travel and work throughout Essex
- Ability to effectively deliver and install the digital health check stations
- Car owner/driver and ability to drive to various locations
Desirable
- Ability to drive the Provide CIC Mobile Outreach Vehicle
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Foundation degree/NVQ level 5 (or equivalent) and other demonstrable work-based experience
Desirable
- Evidence of commitment to CPD (health improvement, project management, IT packages)
- Understanding Health Improvement Level 2
- NCSCT qualification or willingness to undertake it
- Making Every Contact Count Training or willingness to undertake it
- RSPH Workplace Health Champion training or equivalent
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrable expereince of planning and organising complex activities or programmes using a range of IT packages i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, Word and survey platforms
- Complete in-depth employer wellbeing survey analysis and prepare a Wellbeing Action Plan with employers, taking into consideration the complexity of economic pressures and legal requirements and local considerations
- Understand the national and local/sector benchmarking data and providing input that will support an effective Wellbeing Strategy
- Proactive in working collaboratively to achieve service outcomes
- Ability to follow processes and procedures and make recommendations for changes to practice
Desirable
- Group facilitation skills
Circumstances
Essential
- Car owner and ability to drive and ability to drive and be able to travel various sites in Essex. Ability to drive the Provide Outreach vehicle
Work Related Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of project management or a similar role which has involved the management of multiple workstreams and achievement of KPIs in a business enviironment
- Experience in a workplace health improvement or HR role
- Demonstrable experience of analysing complex data and providing feedback on findings and providing bespoke innovative recommendations to employers
- Demonstrable understanding of behaviour change theory
- Clear and demonstrable understanding of health inequalities and explain how a wellbeing programme can reduce health risks and inequalities
- To be able to escalate clinical risks identified by the digital health check programme to employees and employers
- Experience of delivering presentations and guest speaker sessions at networking and business meetings
Desirable
- Experience of working in a public health community focussed setting i.e. volunteering
- Experience of using LMS and booking systems
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Solution Focused attitude
- Ability to work on own initiative using judgement skills to plan out work whilst meeting the required deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise with people at all levels in the workplace and with partner organisations
- Ability to communicate sensitive health information to employers and employees
Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to work occasional evening and weekends and travel and work throughout Essex
- Ability to effectively deliver and install the digital health check stations
- Car owner/driver and ability to drive to various locations
Desirable
- Ability to drive the Provide CIC Mobile Outreach Vehicle
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
