Job description

Job responsibilities

Management & Leadership

• Manage and lead the Health & Wellbeing service, including day to day support of service staff, including recruitment, appraisals, implementation of People & Workforce aligned policies and procedures, absence monitoring, training, education and development planning and service coverage across multiple sites.
• Working in partnership with People & Workforce Business Partners
• Build a network of wellbeing representatives in the wards and departments to act as conduits so that wellbeing information is effectively distributed to staff in different formats and responses fed back to the wellbeing lead.
• Alongside the SLTs, help organise and take part in recruitment events to attract new staff from all backgrounds.
• Develop and organise training packages alongside day-to-day coaching and mentoring of our staff.

Operational Responsibilities

• Be a contact point for staff outside of the management team and liaise with relevant managers on their behalf, with their consent.
• Regular liaison with the Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Business Partners and People & Workforce Business Partners
• Develop and lead a service that offers Wellbeing conversations to individual staff, to support them with signposting to the most appropriate support such as Occupational Health, counselling, or other services.
• Plan, arrange and coordinate strategic activities within the organisation with a focus on Health & Wellbeing service improvement.
• Coordinate activities within the organisation with a focus on Occupational Health service improvement.

Communication and Relationships

• The post holder will be approachable and display high levels of communication and relationship skills, being able to communicate with staff across complex multi-professional team structures using different medias.
• The post holder will be able to understand and manage appropriately, highly sensitive information with regards to our staff teams and their personal lives.
• Accommodating both senior and junior team members by adapting language as necessary. The post-holder will have the skills to comfort, reassure, empower, and motivate both individuals and teams to create a positive working environment.
• Be able to provide presentations to the staff group and the SLT and visiting agencies such as the CQC.
• Support strong relationship development and maintenance between individuals and teams within the services.
• To undertake presentations to internal and external colleagues, conveying complex information, as required.

Staff Safety and Support

• Staff safety remains a priority and the post-holder and the team they manage, will have an overview of plans to address risk assessments, flexible working, compliance with infection prevention and control policy as well as drawing on the range of preventative health and wellbeing support available.
  • These may include offering support and signposting to staff:
    • who have experienced violence or at work.
    • who become distressed by events at work or at home.
    • who must attend Court or Coroners Court.
    • involved in investigations or who are in disciplinary procedures.
    • Implementing Temperature Checks on wards and Departments and advising managers when levels of stress in departments are high and need revie

Physical and Mental effort

• Have a detailed understanding of what a health working environment looks like and develop strategies to support managers and teams to create these.
• Form useful partnerships with organisations to provide the best value for staff for example discounted tickets and access to wellbeing events provided by organisations.
• Drawing on a broad base of contemporaneous knowledge, regularly provide health and wellbeing information to the service as a whole and to individual staff
• Advise and signpost staff about resources available to improve health and wellbeing and refer staff when appropriate
• Ability to work in rare situation where circumstances can be distressing.
• There will be occasional exposure to distressing circumstances when supporting staff with wellbeing issues.
• There will be a frequent requirement for concentration where the post holder is expected to manage conflicting priorities.

Recognised and Rewarded

• Develop an understanding of what staff would value within a reward scheme and work with GEH & SWFT People and Workforce teams to implement this.
• Organise wider events for staff to connect with each other and build morale.
• Work with Managers and the Estates Department to scope out staff facilities to ensure they are warm, welcoming, and well equipped so that staff can take rest breaks in tranquil environments.

Have a Voice that Counts.

• To use a wide range of methods to encourage staff to take part in information gathering such as the NHS Staff Survey.
• To develop and support implementation of meaningful action plans to address areas of improvement following analysis of complex data such as the staff survey.
• To organise regular Listening Events providing staff with opportunity to give contemporaneous information about how they are feeling, what is working well and what needs improving.
• Directly link with EDI Business Partners to support synergy in People & Workforce strategic aims for the organisations.
• To collate the information from these events and discuss with the SLTs to find timely solutions to issues raised.
• To publish You said - We did information.
• To work with local teams and SLTs champions to implement action plans for improving the wellbeing of the workforce.
• The post holder will have responsibility to develop and implement policies for GEH & SWFT in respect of employees wellbeing.

Financial Accountability

• To effectively manage the staff wellbeing budget ensuring value for money as available.
• To monitor the financial expenditure of the OH service aligned to the Service Level Agreement with our third-party provider
• Meet regularly with the allocated finance personnel.
• Keep the Head of People |& Workforce at GEH and SWFT regularly updated about the budget status.
• To co-ordinate applications for bids for staff wellbeing monies, ensuring these are appropriate and create a legacy of future wellbeing support.

Person Specification

Qualification(s) and Professional Training

Essential

• First degree or equivalent experience
• Master's Degree/ Level 7 qualification in a health related or leadership subject or equivalent experience at master's / level 7 or be willing to undertake a qualification within 2 years of commencing in role
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Leadership Qualification (minimum Level 5)

Desirable

• A Counselling Qualification (minimum Level5)
• A Public Health Qualification (minimum Level 5)
• Coaching qualification (minimum Level 5)
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring.
• Occupational Health Management Qualification (minimum Level 6)
• Project Management Qualification
• Professional Qualification e.g. Nurse, AHP, Paramedic etc

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• A broad base of knowledge and experience
• Managerial experience and experience of managing HR matters.
• Experience of multi-professional team working
• Previous budget holder experience
• Previous experience working in Health & Wellbeing role
• Project manager experience
• Previous Business Partner experience
• Previous Occupational Health Management experience

Skills and Abilities

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
• Good analytical skills. Able to analyse reports and complex data, identify trends and patterns and develop solutions.
• 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.
• Leadership & Management Experience

Other

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.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to work autonomously.
• Practical and calm under pressure
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Adaptable and flexible
• Innovative and intuitive
• Able to work well as part of a multidisciplinary team

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 .

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 .

Employer details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

College Street

Nuneaton

CV10 7DU

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