Colleague Health and Wellbeing Lead Remote
Job description
Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Full Time (34.5 hours, Monday-Friday)
Salary Range: £42,500-£47,500
Location: Home based
Are you passionate about health and well-being in the workplace?
Do you want to help us deliver the best possible service to people affected by cancer?
Are you looking for an inclusive environment where you can let your skills shine?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a health and well-being specialist to join our team for a year to support the continuous development of colleague health and well-being within our Direct Services teams. The role will enrich the health and well-being of colleagues within Direct Services, ensuring alignment with our organisational values of Heart, Strength, and Ambition.
The person will support the implementation of our health and well-being approach against our strategic themes – mental, physical, social, financial, and environmental health and well-being - ensuring it is evidence led, current, relevant, appropriate, aligned to leading practice, inclusive and meets legislative requirements.
About You
You’ll need a good understanding of the health and well-being needs of large, front facing teams as all our 450 Direct Services colleagues either provide support, information, and advice directly to people living with cancer using a variety of contact channels or support the delivery and development of our services.
You will also need:
- Experience of implementing health and well-being initiatives, including demonstrable experience of an evidence-based approach using data analysis and best practice techniques
- Excellent project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrable evidence of training and continuous professional development in a related field, e.g., employee mental health, health and well-being, safety
- Either a relevant qualification or a willingness to work towards a qualification such as NEBOSH general or Health and Well-being certificate (Desirable)
- Ability to work on your own initiative both autonomously and as part of a team
- Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft skills
As this is a home-based role, you will need:
- A reliable broadband connection with upload and download speeds of at least 3mbps
- To comply with strict data protection rules you must have a private, confidential space to work from.
We will provide all IT equipment needed for the role.
There may be occasions where you will have the option to travel to one of our offices (London, Glasgow, or Shipley – West Yorkshire) for events, training, or meetings.
About Us
We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together, we do whatever it takes for people living with cancer; with heart, with strength and with ambition.
We commit to actively developing you and offer benefits including private medical insurance, life assurance, pension, generous annual leave, and interest free loans for season ticket, gym membership and a vast range of discounts via our benefit platform which helps make our employees’ money go further.
We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.
We want to make our recruitment processes accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you to be the best you can be, including any adjustments to our recruitment processes, please contact the Macmillan People Services Team at [email protected].
Recruitment Process
The application deadline is 4th June, 2023 at midnight. Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies.
Successful candidates will then be invited to a virtual interview on either 21st or 23rd June 2023 via MS Teams.
For an informal chat about the role please contact either Ann O'Flynn, Head of Information and Support on [email protected] or Sam Dewey, Senior Reward Manager on [email protected].
In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.
We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, reflecting the diverse range of people we support.
