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Main area
Working Well
Grade
Band 4
Contract
2 years (Fixed term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
828-PROVIDE4019
Employer
Provide CIC
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kestrel House
Town
Chelmsford
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/04/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Provide CIC logo

Working Well Facilitator

Band 4

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 support 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 ,including the delivery of our SiSU Digital Health Check stations, and attending business networking events.  It is essential that the post holder has a driving license 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.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

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

For a full list of the job description and main responsibilities of this role, please see the attached job description. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Foundation degree/NVQ level 5 (or equivalent) and other demonstrable work-based experience
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
  • Making Every Contact Count Training or willingness to undertake it
  • RSPH Workplace Health Champion training or equivalent

Skills and aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable expereince of planning and organising complex activities or programmes using a range of IT packages i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, Word and survey platforms
  • Complete in-depth employer wellbeing survey analysis and prepare a Wellbeing Action Plan with employers, taking into consideration the complexity of economic pressures and legal requirements and local considerations
  • Understand the national and local/sector benchmarking data and providing input that will support an effective Wellbeing Strategy
  • Proactive in working collaboratively to achieve service outcomes
  • Ability to follow processes and procedures and make recommendations for changes to practice
Desirable criteria
  • Group facilitation skills

Circumstances

Essential criteria
  • Car owner and ability to drive and ability to drive and be able to travel various sites in Essex. Ability to drive the Provide Outreach vehicle

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 enviironment
  • Experience in a workplace health improvement or HR role
  • Demonstrable experience of analysing complex data and providing feedback on findings and providing bespoke innovative recommendations to employers
  • Demonstrable understanding of behaviour change theory
  • Clear and demonstrable understanding of health inequalities and explain how a wellbeing programme can reduce health risks and inequalities
  • To be able to escalate clinical risks identified by the digital health check programme to employees and employers
  • Experience of delivering presentations and guest speaker sessions at networking and business meetings
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in a public health community focussed setting i.e. volunteering
  • Experience of using LMS and booking systems

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Solution Focused attitude
  • Ability to work on own initiative using judgement skills to plan out work whilst meeting the required deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise with people at all levels in the workplace and with partner organisations
  • Ability to communicate sensitive health information to employers and employees

Circumstances

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work occasional evening and weekends and travel and work throughout Essex
  • Ability to effectively deliver and install the digital health check stations
  • Car owner/driver and ability to drive to various locations
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to drive the Provide CIC Mobile Outreach Vehicle

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Positive about disabled peopleAge positiveMINTDisability confident employerEssex Family Friendly EmployersArmed Forces CovenantQNI

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lyn Mowforth
Job title
Essex Working Well Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07961124682
Additional information

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact me via email to arrange a telephone call.

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