Job summary
Employer heading
Bank-Wellbeing Mindfulness Development Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of a 'Healthy Caring Powys' and help us transform the way we provide health and care, so our communities can Start Well, Live Well and Age Well.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Job overview
The post holder will have a key professional role in leading projects relating to developing, managing, implementing and delivering multi-stranded Wellbeing Mindfulness and resilience development programmes for individuals and groups of the workforce.
Working collaboratively with the Workforce Future Experience and Wellbeing Manager and internal and external stakeholders, the post holder will be contributing to the Health Board’s Health and Wellbeing framework with the aim of improving overall Employee Experience and emotional health, performance, and effectiveness, contributing to the modernisation of the workforce and delivery of the Integrated Medium-Term Plan.
Act as key professional project lead for Wellbeing Mindfulness across all Workforce Futures partners, including paid and unpaid workforce.
Main duties of the job
Lead responsibility for designing, developing, delivering, evaluating, coordinating and maintaining Mindfulness and resilience programmes both for the Health Board and for the Workforce Future Partnership ensuring any interventions are fully aligned to the Health Board’s Health and Wellbeing framework and for the Wellbeing theme within Workforce Futures (WFF).
Design and deliver creative teaching and development sessions linked to specific projects for small, medium and large multi-disciplinary staff groups. This will require the ability to present highly complex and often conflicting information in an understandable way.
Working with the Workforce Future Wellbeing and Experience Manager, plan, organise, co-ordinate and manage a schedule of Employee Experience interventions, ensuring effective synchronicity of programmes with other Wellbeing, Occupational Health, and OD activity.
Provide Mindfulness coaching internally and externally. This requires specialist training and highly developed empathy and motivational skills with the ability to challenge others about their leadership beliefs and behaviours in a highly sensitive manner enabling them to build on strengths and recognise and address unhelpful coping strategies.
When required, act as the professional lead representation for Wellbeing Mindfulness on the Health Board’s Wellbeing at Work group and Workforce Future themes.
Working for our organisation
Being the smallest Heath Board in Wales means that you won’t get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.
As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We’re also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy ’life work’ balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.
To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/. There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see full details in the job description via Trac.
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Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in mental or physical health care, education or social care, or equivalent substantial life experience, that is relevant to the role
- Master’s level equivalent acquired through knowledge, training and experience
- Highly specialist knowledge of Organisational Development and Learning & Development functions
Desirable criteria
- Coaching qualification
- Counselling Qualification
- Membership of a professional body / association e.g. The British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of Organisational Development (OD) and Learning & Development
- Experience of project management
- Experience of organising and co-ordinating events and activities
- Experience in OD intervention design e.g. Mindfulness / resilience programmes
- Significant experience of dealing with highly sensitive, complex health and wellbeing matters / interactions
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working within the NHS
- Analysis and interpretation of data
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Advanced keyboard skills - Microsoft Office e.g. PowerPoint, Excel and Word
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak or learn Welsh
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate PTHB Values
Other
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated
- Able to work on own initiative and work well within a team
- Excellent attention to detail
- Able to organise own workload and keep to deadlines
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
- Willing and able to travel across PTHB / Workforce Future partnership site
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Powell
- Job title
- Assistant Director of People and Culture
- Email address
- [email protected]
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