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How you'll make a difference

As the council’s lead advisor on the wellbeing strategy you'll make a difference by developing and promoting high quality wellbeing resources, initiatives and continuing to embed best practice across the council.

What will you be doing?

This is a varied role in which the main focus is to drive the delivery of the Wellbeing commitments in the Council Plan and Organisational Reset Programme, specifically actions set in our Wellbeing Strategy and co-ordinate and promote specific wellbeing tools and resources to support staff.

• You will ensure the full cross section of SGC employees have their wellbeing needs understood and met establishing new or utilizing existing forums (for example Mental Health Strategic Cell and an operational group).
• You will develop and promote wellbeing resources, ensuring they are relevant and accessible to the council’s various workforce workgroups.
• You will monitor and report the impact of wellbeing initiatives and programmes ensuring supporting budget is used effectively.
• Working with our Mental Health Champions and Mental Health First Aiders you will co-ordinate and support to establish self-managing networks.
• You will work with staff equality groups to ensure their wellbeing needs are adequately reflected and met in our wellbeing offer.

What we need from you

• We require you to have experience in a wellbeing related role and demonstrable understanding and awareness of mental health and wider wellbeing issues.

• It is essential that you have a relevant professional qualification in a related field this could be HR, Health improvement or Health & Safety, Mental Health.
  
  
• You will be an excellent communicator with the ability to influence colleagues and stakeholders over whom you have no formal authority.
  
  
• It will be your responsibility to measure and report the impact of interventions, skilled in using Microsoft office packages and in the presentation of materials, resources and digital content.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
  
  
• What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
  
  
• As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
  
  
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.