Health and Wellbeing Officer

Job description

Job 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification or relevant experience.
• Related qualification in a health and wellbeing subject or demonstratable equivalent experience in this area (minimum level 3 qualification)
• Evidence of continuing professional development in a health and wellbeing related subject and a willingness to complete additional qualifications once commenced in role.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a health and wellbeing related role
• Experience of coordinating health and wellbeing projects.
• Experience of effective multidisciplinary working

Skills

Essential

• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a high level of emotional intelligence.
• Has the ability to communicate effectively with others on contentious and emotive issues and challenge appropriately
• Ability to engage constructively with a wide range of staff to develop shared agendas and action plans.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with a broad spectrum of people, highlighting benefits, finding alternatives, and gaining active support and commitment
• Strong planning and organisation skills including the ability to prioritise where necessary and being able to direct activities of others.
• Proven ability to manage resources effectively. Well organised and able to work under pressure and deliver to deadlines.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to convey complex information and data in a form that is accessible to a wide range of people.
• Experience of supervising others.

Others

Essential

• Excellent communication skills-both verbal and written.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to influence and negotiate at all levels.
• Car driver/independent means of transport for regular travel between sites.
• Non-smoker in work hours.
• Flexible to meet the needs of the service.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Warwick Hospital

Warwick

CV34 5BW

Employer's website

https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)