Workplace Wellbeing Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
66861 - 74290 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Monday 03 July 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £74,290Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Coaching Consultant/Workplace Wellbeing Consultant to join our team.You will develop and implement effective wellbeing programs, provide counselling and support services to colleagues and work closely with team managers to ensure a healthy and positive work environment.
In the role you will support people to help them identify and achieve personal outcomes, providing psychological support and performance counselling.
You will develop strategies to help colleagues overcome illnesses, injuries, and personal setbacks and advise line manager to be able to support their colleagues in their daily lives, on mental health approaches and providing support when required.
You will provide individuals with strategies to manage work and non-work stress, anxiety, and pressure which will enable them to achieve high performance consistently throughout the year.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Workplace Wellbeing Consultant
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £67000 - £74000
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Workplace Wellbeing Consultant to join our team.
This is an exciting new opportunity to join our hard-working Chief Security Office (CSO) team and promote a culture of mutual support and care between individuals and teams. You'll have the opportunity to establish and maintain the overall mindfulness and wellbeing strategy and develop the role in line with the strategic direction of the teams.
What will your role as a Coaching Consultant look like?
The primary goals of this role will be to develop and implement effective wellbeing programs, provide counselling and support services to colleagues and work closely with team managers to ensure a healthy and positive work environment. You'll assist colleagues to help them identify and achieve personal outcomes, providing psychological support and performance counselling.
You'll be responsible for developing strategies to help colleagues overcome illnesses, injuries, and personal setbacks and advise line manager to be able to support their colleagues in their daily lives, on mental health approaches and providing support when required.
Building a rapport with people using structured conversations to enable and empower them to identify their priorities and goals will be central to this role. You'll encourage colleagues to be the creators and ambassadors of the team’s ongoing approach to wellbeing and adopt approaches that ensure a responsible work/life balance for colleagues. You'll provide individuals with strategies and resources to manage work and non-work stress, anxiety, and pressure which will enable them to achieve high performance consistently throughout the year.
The role also involves the following:
- Active delivery of individual and group-based psycho-educational courses.
- Participate in local team activities that promote positive mental health awareness and assistance to challenge stigma and discrimination.
- To maintain positive working relationships with other team members, including primary HR, Occupational health and group legal.
- To keep accurate and up-to-date written records of work in keeping with policies and procedures.
- To gather record and collate data, including case studies/colleague stories in a prescribed format for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
- Build, develop and maintain a network of expertise that can be utilised to additionally support the role and the colleagues.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
Ideally, you'll have the following skills and experience:
- Previous experience of working with people in demanding situations would be desirable.
- An understanding of coaching principles.
- Great communication skills and builds rapport easily.
- Understanding of diverse backgrounds including neurodiversity.
- Previous mental health training
- Able to work independently in a proactive manner.
- Able to sustain contact with individuals and line managers to encourage and motivate them.
Even better if you also have:
- Basic IT skills, solid understanding of office 365 desirable.
- Knowledge and experience of Agile methodology
What you'll get in return
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
