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Diverse Perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

At HSE we want to create the conditions for all colleagues to be healthy, safe and well at work. To ensure we can achieve this aim we have launched an improvement programme to strengthen how we lead HSW through our people then underpin with effective systems.

As part of our Achieving Cultural Excellence (ACE) improvement programme at HSE we are building a HSW capability to help develop and deliver our health, safety and wellbeing changes.

The ACE programme is a priority for HSE and one that presents exciting and challenging opportunities for colleagues who wish to be part of an HSW change programme that will endure and make a real difference to transforming our health and safety management systems and leadership culture for HSW.

As a Health and Wellbeing Business Partner you will have responsibility for supporting and influencing HSE divisions in building an excellent health and wellbeing culture.

You will work closely with HSW team colleagues, HSW Committees, HSE Divisions, support functions and stakeholders to lead change and advocate health and wellbeing cultural excellence in HSE.

You will use your leadership skills to:

• Influence thinking and actions on Health and Wellbeing culture at divisional and organisational level
• Lead task and finish groups to identify and implement improvements in Health and Wellbeing culture and our policies and procedures.
• Represent the HSW team and HSE at internal and external meetings and events.
• Build and maintain effective Health and Wellbeing support networks.
• Influence, coach and support senior leadership teams to achieve Health and Wellbeing cultural excellence in their Divisions.

As part of the Health Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) team, you will be key in the delivery of embedding the new business partnering approach and raising health and wellbeing (H&W) capability in the wider HSE.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting and influencing HSE Divisions to understand the vision of an excellent Health and Wellbeing culture and enabling them to achieve excellence through the delivery of the HSE Business Plan and the implementation of changes developed from the HSW improvement programme.
• Providing advice, support and direction to Divisional leaders/colleagues through improvements in systems and culture. Performing Health and Wellbeing culture / behaviour evaluations at all three levels – Organisational, Divisional (group) and Individual.
• Playing an integral role in shaping the new Health and Wellbeing culture, maximising contributions from key stakeholders, with due awareness of the role this will play within wider HSE transformation programmes.
• Working with HR Business Partners, other Business Partners and Health and Safety Committees to provide on-going expertise to meet any identified Health and Wellbeing capability and best practice gaps and providing an independent view and objective challenge as required.
• Facilitating/leading on bespoke delivery sessions at Divisional SLT’s.
• Analysing data from a wide range of data sets to make recommendations for improvement, controls or mitigation.

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

The post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for more details about HSE locations please see here.

• You will hold a recognised Health and Wellbeing or HR qualification at Level 5 or, be prepared to work towards a qualification.
• The qualifications and experience are required to provide evidence that the individual can; articulate risk and make recommendations on mitigation; maintain Health and Wellbeing process, policy and procedures; and understand organisational level management information to make recommendations on Health and Wellbeing improvements at organisational and divisional levels.
• Experience of leading multifaceted change projects, delivering on time and to cost and to bring about tangible business improvements.
• Maintaining your continuous professional development and participate in regular learning and development to enable you to build and develop your Health and Wellbeing BP capability.
• Experience of persuading and influencing at a senior leadership level and with stakeholders and networks to drive forward effective improvements and culture change
• Experience of analysing data from a wide range of data sets to make recommendations for improvement, controls or mitigation.
• Experience of implementing policy, process and guidance.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Competitive rates of pay
• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1%, far more than in the private sector.
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
• Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
• Parental leave benefits

Job contact :

Name :
Jeremy Bird
Email :
[email protected]

Recruitment team :

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