Central HR Wellbeing Advisor

Metropolitan Police; Greater London; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

The Metropolitan Police are seeking a Central HR Wellbeing Advisor to manage local wellbeing activities across BCUs or OCUs, supporting delivery of the MPS Occupational Health and Wellbeing strategy. You will embed trauma risk management programmes and collaborate with senior stakeholders to standardise wellbeing provision.

You will be responsible for data reporting to OHWB leadership, driving improvements and ensuring governance aligns with national standards.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of mental health conditions
• Knowledge of trauma risk management programmes
• Experience delivering wellbeing initiatives in a large organisation

Responsibilities

• Local Wellbeing point of contact for assigned BCU/OCU cluster
• Coordinate trauma risk management programmes (TPS, TIPT, WSO)
• Collaborate with OH & Wellbeing leadership to deliver strategy
• Governance: report on local wellbeing activities and risks
• Support line managers on OH service concerns and referrals
• Promote and signpost internal and external wellbeing pathways

Skills

Listening & Empathy

Communication

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Job description

Salary: The starting salary is £48,995, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.

The salary is broken down as £45,986 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £54,863. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Southwark

Purpose of the Role

The Central HR Wellbeing Advisor team will be responsible for the management of local health and wellbeing activities across either the BCUs or OCUs, to support delivery of the New Met for London 2 wellbeing commitments and MPS Occupational Health and Wellbeing strategy.

Each Central HR Wellbeing Advisor will be required to either cover a BCU cluster (3 BCUs) or a cluster of OCUs across Met Operations, Specialist Crime or Professionalism and will play a key role to embed a formalised approach to standardise delivery of trauma risk management programmes: Trauma Peer Support (TPS), Trauma Informed Prevention Techniques (TIPT), Welfare Support Officers (WSO) and wellbeing provision. This will ensure alignment to the wellbeing governance structure and enable assurance against delivery of organisational priorities and national standards.

Working collaboratively with Superintendent Wellbeing leads, local Wellbeing coordinators, LROs, PPIT, OH & Wellbeing Team and key stakeholders, will be essential in driving forward a standardised wellbeing provision that effectively supports the health and wellbeing of our workforce.

The role holder will have responsibility for ensuring data reporting is complied with by local wellbeing coordinators to conduct analysis and insights to the OH & Wellbeing senior leadership team for assurance on a strategic level.

Key Responsibilities

• Local Wellbeing point of contact: Responsibility for assigned BCU or OCU cluster, with geographical rotation to embed with local leadership teams and wellbeing co-ordinators to ensure regular engagement and collaborative working
• Assigned cluster point of contact for wellbeing and trauma risk related matters
• Working in collaboration with local stakeholders to ensure alignment to the MPS Health and Wellbeing strategy.
• Supporting implementation of MPS Health and Wellbeing Strategy within local plans
• Governance framework: Collate and report on local wellbeing activities, including Blue Light Champions (BLC) and Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) to OHWB Wellbeing Manager to assure locally delivered wellbeing provision. Escalation of issues and emerging officer/staff welfare risks to the appropriate OH&WB SLT lead.
• Attendance at meetings as identified within wellbeing governance structure
• FLP BCU / OCU Risk Register: Collaborative working with Supt wellbeing lead / SLT wellbeing lead, to identify mitigations, lead with implementing and monitor to manage wellbeing risks identified.
• PPIT engagement: Partnership working with PPIT to ensure identified wellbeing and welfare concerns resulting from impact of absence management and HR process are raised and addressed.
• Met communities engagement: Liaison with respective leads to provide feedback from local insights and support with raising awareness of the Met communities
• Local wellbeing requests: manage local requests for OH and Wellbeing input; triage local requests for other wellbeing training services and input for CPD days.
• Local wellbeing activity: Manage proposed local wellbeing initiatives.
• Manage requests to access 3rd party charity services
• Support line managers in addressing OH service concerns/complaints and navigating appropriate referral pathways.
• Safety, Health and Wellbeing maturity matrix – wellbeing thematic: support Command with conducting audit and monitoring to achieve required standard
• Promoting support services: Identifying and signposting to internal and external wellbeing support pathways; educate and raise awareness of OH services.
• Command comms: Liaise with the Comms Lead, to coordinate and publish accurate, timely content on the Command SharePoint platform including promotion of wellbeing campaigns and national NPWS wellbeing Survey.
• Team resilience: Provide cover for other HR Wellbeing Advisors when required
• Line management responsibilities: HR Wellbeing Advisors working within a BCU cluster will line manage 3 local Wellbeing Coordinators
• Trauma Peer Support Programme (TPS): Manage the surge of additional demand for TPS facilitators.
• Trauma Risk Management Programmes data reporting: Responsible for collating received data from the Commands’ local wellbeing coordinators, to review and identify any risk and ensure appropriate escalations
• Continuous Improvement: Conduct trend analysis from the trauma risk management programmes to identify any trends that would impact the Command or Business Group and any organisational learning from incidents, required to be reported via governance structure.
• Major incidents: Support OH response to major incidents/operations
• Support for trained cadres: Responsible for overseeing wellbeing of TPS and WSO trained cadres is implemented
• Support wellbeing local coordinators with facilitation of training arrangements for trauma risk management programmes
• Op Hampshire cases: Oversee and monitor signposting and wellbeing support offered; identify areas for improvement

This role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance. If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on11th October 2026.

• Knowledge and understanding of mental health conditions
• Knowledge and understanding of trauma and impact within policing roles
• Knowledge of MPS Trauma Risk management programmes
• Knowledge of early intervention and prevention strategies
• Knowledge of crisis response – Risk assessments
• Understanding of MPS wellbeing and trauma referral pathways for support

Skills

• Excellent listening, empathy and non-judgemental skills
• Self-aware and reflective
• Ability to work under pressure
• Passionate to improve wellbeing outcomes and creating a positive workplace culture.
• Ethical and professional
• Ability to manage multiple work priorities and achieve required deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for effective partnership collaboration with stakeholders
• Ability to co-ordinate and manage internal and external partnership working relationships.
• Ability to manage identified welfare risks
• Proficiency in digital communication tools – including Box and excel spreadsheet capabilities
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Data analytical skills and data management
• Strong team ethic
• Management of work activities upwards and accelerate issues assertively
• Ability to prepare and write concise management reporting products
• business partnering
• senior stakeholder relationship management

The following competencies will be tested against during sift

• We are emotionally aware at level 2
• We take ownershipat level3
• We collaborateat level2
• We support and inspireat level2

The following values will be tested against during sift

• Empathy
• Integrity
• Respect

Disability Confident Statement

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If youneed any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about police fitness standards .

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