Main area: Working Well
Grade Band: 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref: 828-PROVIDE3403
Employer: Provide CIC
Employer type: NHS
Site: HQ
Town: Colchester
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 Pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
Job Overview
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 supporting 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 and business networking events. It is essential that the post holder has a driving licence 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.
Working for Our Organisation
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.
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.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
1. Support the specialist work of the Essex Working Well team, ensuring sound and up-to-date knowledge of workplace health and wellbeing.
2. Providing input and support to other members of the team and service development.
3. Liaise and work with new and existing workplaces and partner organisations to identify appropriate in-house training and support packages, in line with existing resources.
4. Supporting workplaces to complete a range of in-house and national Workplace health and wellbeing Awards and Accreditation.
5. Maintain accurate record keeping and workflow data to ensure relevant information is captured to ensure effective reporting on key outcomes.
6. Support in the analysis of a range of programme data and production of reports, including Staff Needs Assessment Surveys.
7. Working with key partners to promote and increase the range of workplace support available.
8. Identifying and supporting workplace wellbeing events to promote the service to new businesses.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria:
* Foundation degree/NVQ level 5 (or equivalent) and other demonstrable work-based experience.
* Making Every Contract Count training (or willingness to undertake it).
* RSPH workplace health champion training or equivalent.
Desirable Criteria:
* Evidence of commitment to CPD (health improvement, project management, IT packages).
* Understanding Health Improvement Level 2.
* NCSCT qualification or willingness to undertake it.
Work Related Knowledge and Experience
Essential Criteria:
* Demonstrable experience of project management or a similar role which has involved the management of multiple workstreams and achievement of KPIs in a business environment.
* Experience in a workplace health improvement role.
* Demonstrable experience of analysing basic data and providing feedback on findings and recommendations.
* Demonstrable understanding of behaviour change theory and health inequalities.
* Evidence of delivering presentations.
Desirable Criteria:
* Experience of working in a public health, community-focused setting i.e. volunteering.
* Experience of using online booking systems i.e. Smoothbook, Eventbrite etc.
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential Criteria:
* Demonstrable experience of planning and organising complex activities or programmes using a range of IT packages i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, Word, and survey platforms.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise with people at all levels.
* Solution-focused attitude, ability to work on own initiative to plan and capture data required.
* Proactive in working collaboratively to achieve service outcomes.
* Ability to follow processes and procedures to ensure the completion of workflow and data capture required.
Desirable Criteria:
* Group facilitation skills.
Circumstances
Essential Criteria:
* Car owner and ability to drive and travel to various sites in Essex. Ability to drive the Provide Outreach vehicle.
Further Information
How will we contact you?
* All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
* As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
* If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
* If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after the interview, their details are provided within the advert.
Checking Progress on Your Application?
To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.
Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK Clinical Registration Required for the Role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID-19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
Anti-Fraud
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attend the interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices, and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators. The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations. #J-18808-Ljbffr