Health and Wellbeing Manager

About Shaw Trust  

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Role Purpose

We recognise that access to good employment is critically dependent on what happens in people’s formative years and the opportunities they then have. To address this, we provide a broadened framework of complementary services of which Health and Well Being (H&WB) is a key component, alongside Education and Skills, Children and Young People’s Services and Employability.

We are looking for a individual who can manage and develop our H&WB training offer both internal and externally and take responsibility for the Shaw Trust staff wellbeing practitioners ensuring that at all times the wellbeing of our staff and participants are put first.

You will line manage a team of trainers and staff wellbeing practitioners who look after the wellbeing of staff across ST group and will work with the team to embed H&WB into the culture of the organisation through annual wellbeing surveys / training / support. You will manage the team to;

• revise policies and processes ensuring wellbeing is featured where necessary;
• develop wellbeing initiatives for staff to engage with to support their emotional wellbeing;
• develop and ensure compliance with the wellbeing escalation process;
• develop and manage the Loop Wellbeing page and content, and external Shaw Trust website to ensure accurate and up-to-date emotional wellbeing information, advice and guidance;
• ensure compliance and governance of ethical standards and practice

You will be involved in the escalation of staff wellbeing concerns process ensuring all case information is brought to the panel and actions followed up. You will work closely with the safeguarding team to ensure concerns are jointly investigated and deliver training ensuring staff are suitably skilled and emotionally able to undertake their roles effectively.

You will work with the Senior H&WB Lead to drive growth in commercial sales of our services including

• Driving internal and external participation of our Mental Health Accredited First Aid training and the management of the team delivering this.
• Coordinating the training dates, feedback, observation of training and improvements
• Designing and delivering Health and wellbeing bespoke training to internal staff and external stakeholders
• Emotional wellbeing support for employees, ensuring the in-house service is promoted effectively across the Shaw Trust group and that opportunities to expand this commercially are taken forwards.

You will hold a training qualification and have experience in the design and delivery of training and management in a health and social care setting.

Download the Job Description for full details and Person Specification.

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.  We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format, email: resourcing@shaw-trust.org.uk to make alternative arrangements.

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.