Wellbeing Specialist Practitioner

Purpose

Shaw Trust are seeking to recruit 2 new posts of Wellbeing Specialist Practitioner to work within the existing Health and Wellbeing team but with a particular focus on employee wellbeing. We’re supporting our staff as they adapt to a new world in the wake of COVID-19 and we are now recruiting for 2 roles which will help our staff to deliver vital services from home. These roles will primarily focus on supporting employees across the various teams/services to ensure they are supported to undertake the duties of their role and that they are looking after their mental health and wellbeing.

These posts will support the development and delivery of our Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and lead on specific wellbeing initiatives. You will specifically focus on building the health and wellbeing capacity within the workplace and upskill existing and new staff in approaches to better enable them to practice self-help for the betterment of their health and wellbeing. This could include but is not limited to the creation of Wellbeing Champions and MH Supporters, as well as the delivery of workshops/training to staff teams.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Act as a first line support to all staff / volunteers across the various business activities supporting staff wellbeing queries, coping skills, practical advice around health conditions and wellbeing. This will involve working one-to-one with individuals to support them in becoming more successful and effective in delivering their organisational objectives, while also enhancing their personal wellbeing
2. Design, develop and deliver a series of workshops/training sessions to managers, staff and customer service teams around resilience, management of health conditions and wellbeing in the workplace etc.
3. Create and share the health and wellbeing communication plan, working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, to schedule in regular health and wellbeing days, events, sharing of resources and messages out via social media / digital means.
4. Supporting with opportunities to gather insights from the workforce to help inform activity / strategic approach. This could include creation / dissemination of internal short surveys, national surveys, co-ordinating focus groups etc.
5. Design, develop and implement initiatives aimed at helping employees to cope successfully with changes taking place in their workplace, such as restructuring, or new business processes.

   6. Co-ordination and / or delivery of initiatives within the workplace. This may mean creating bespoke webinar sessions for delivery in person or digitally, through to liaising with external stakeholders to arrange for delivery of specialist interventions to the workforce based on need (such as weight management; smoking cessation; mindfulness; approaches to address MSK issues etc.)

   7. Provide advice to business areas for a range of health and wellbeing issues (activity, nutrition, stress, mental health, general wellbeing etc.). Upskilling managers across the business by providing them with the competence and confidence to deliver advice / content to their teams.

   8. Mediate in situations where there is conflict between employees and management or an employment dispute

   9. Co-ordinate the approach to workplace health and wellbeing champions and provide the champions with general support and direction to ensure we have an active and vibrant champion community. This includes; development and delivery of training programmes, refresher sessions and development sessions, delivery of frequent de-briefing opportunities and networking forums

   10. To demonstrate Shaw Trust values each day ensuring this guides and focuses the work you do

   This job description is intended to provide a broad outline of the main duties and responsibilities only. The post holder will need to be flexible in developing the role in conjunction with the line manager. The post holder may be asked to carry out any other delegated duty or task that is in line with their post.