Job summary
Employer heading
Wellbeing Programme Lead
Band 8a
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Occupational Health and Wellbeing team as Wellbeing Programme Lead.
The post holder will lead on the design, development and delivery of a comprehensive staff wellbeing and support programme in line with the Trust's Wellbeing Strategy.
At Occupational Health, we aim to improve the health, safety and general wellbeing of all staff. Our priorities focus on:
- Physical health
- Psychological health
- Screening, Surveillance and Vaccination
The successful candidate will join the OH Senior Leadership Team and will provide line management, support and oversight to the OH Wellbeing team - driving demand-led evidence-based Wellbeing activities under these three pillars and measuring the impact of these.
The Occupational Health and Wellbeing team is a large, friendly team based in a purpose-built building opposite Long Road Sixth Form College.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have the enthusiasm, reliability, organisational and people management skills to drive this important programme of work forwards.
The post holder will work closely with the large, multi-disciplinary OH team and with colleagues across the Trust to identify and respond to staff wellbeing needs.
In addition to providing leadership to the OH Wellbeing team, the focus will be on designing, planning, co-ordinating and executing a comprehensive programme of wellbeing activities accessible to all staff.
These activities will be evidence-based and the post holder will proactively use data and harness innovation to inform programme activities.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 17th July 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 30th July 2024
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Degree or equivalent professional qualification evidence of middle to senior management experience
- Recognised leadership or management qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Willingness & ability to work toward Master’s
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate qualification e.g. health service management
- Master’s degree
- Project management qualification
- Qualification in service transformation
- Qualification in advanced communication skills, psychology, coaching, mediation, counselling, mental health/psychological first aid, TRiM or public health
- Qualified clinical professional e.g. nurse or Allied Health Professional
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge and experience in a directly relevant speciality/subject area
- Recognised as an expert in the field of practice or relevant area with the ability to assess and plan
- Significant knowledge of workplace health and wellbeing
- Proven experience in project management
- Proven experience of planning and leading service and or behaviour change
- Experience of managing and or leading a team
- Managing a budget
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues
Desirable criteria
- Practical experience of delivering programmes at scale/services and policy development
- Experience of working in [aspects of] workforce health improvement and/or public health improvement
- Knowledge/experience of NHS Health and Wellbeing Framework
- Audit or research experience
- Awareness of hospital and/or Occupational Health services and systems and information governance
- Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention
- Patient and public involvement
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive
- Effective communicator with proven ability to influence all levels of staff using a range of channels
- Ability to work autonomously as an independent practitioner, organising workload
- Proven leadership and team leading skills
- Proven ability to manage and progress own professional development
- Presentation skills
- Planning and operational delivery skills. Able to respond to change and apply themselves to development in practice
- Group facilitation skills
- Able to effectively manage and diffuse conflict in an open manner
- Able to build relationships across organisational and professional boundaries
- Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to meet multiple and competing deadlines
- Problem solving/trouble shooting skills
- IT skills (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
- Ability to consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationship in employment and service delivery and to take actions which support and promote this agenda
Desirable criteria
- Training and/or coaching skills
- Risk management
- Budget and resource management
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Highly motivated
- Committed to continuous service development and quality improvement
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and targets
- Reliable and supportive
- Ability to synthesise information, consider and evaluate risks and options when making difficult decisions
- Ability to occasionally work outside of normal working hours and at weekends e.g. to support events
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ailsa Bowring
- Job title
- Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
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