Health and Wellbeing Advisor

Aureos; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A health and wellbeing company is seeking a Health and Wellbeing Advisor to support their wellbeing programmes across the UK. The role includes promoting safe working standards, delivering health checks, and collaborating with internal teams to enhance wellbeing initiatives. Ideal candidates will possess strong interpersonal skills and a valid driving license, ready to travel for site visits. This position offers career development opportunities and a generous salary, providing a fulfilling environment for individuals passionate about health and wellbeing.

Benefits

Generous Salary

25 days Holiday plus Bank Holidays

Pension

Learning & Development opportunities

Assistance and Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Strong ability to work autonomously and flexibly within the UK and Ireland.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work overtime if required.

Responsibilities

• Promote safe working standards and equipment.
• Deliver health and wellbeing workshops.
• Support the HWB Manager with planning and scheduling.

Skills

Driving Licence

Active listening skills

IT systems proficiency (Microsoft 365)

Time management skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Education

Relevant industry educational qualifications (e.g., NEBOSH)

Tools

HSQE specific systems

Job description

Aureos is seeking a Health and Wellbeing Advisor to join our growing team. This role supports all aspects and delivery of the Health & Wellbeing programmes and align to the HSQEW strategy, supporting evidence-based practice.

We will consider candidates based anywhere within the UK, as this is a UK wide role with regular travel involved. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is passionate about health and wellbeing with progression and career development.

Primary tasks and duties

• Promotion of safe equipment, standards and method of working.
• Showing the behaviours expected, providing challenge where required and not walking by, leading by example each and every time.
• UK Travel for site visits to support HWB delivery.
• Deliver Thrive health & wellbeing checks and Prostate Specific Antigen tests.
• Ongoing promotion of health and wellbeing support avenues / initiatives.
• Support delivery of workshops and toolbox talks.
• Support TCUP 1 & 2 delivery (these are our inhouse training days for employees).
• Support POPS manual handling delivery.
• Carryout DSE Assessments.
• Support and maintain HWB activity database.
• Support, develop and maintain the HWB communications programme : HWB intranet page & HWB campaigns calendar.
• Support the delivery of the health and wellbeing KPI’s against the strategy.
• Collaborate, maintain and develop links with internal support teams including social values : sustainability, inclusion; learning & development, health & safety and communications.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with site teams, clients and other stakeholders
• Actively continue HWB own personal development and keep competencies up to date.
• Attend an annual GPS review with HWB Manager.

Secondary tasks and duties

• Support the HWB Manager with day-to-day planning and scheduling of HWB programme.
• Encourage use of HSQEW reporting systems and quality contributions.
• Comply with all procedures and instruction contained within the Aureos’s Business Management System (BMS).
• Support maintenance and improvement of ISO 45003.
• To conduct yourself in a professional and polite manner at all times ensuring excellent customer service and the companies hard earned reputation are maintained.
• Look after all equipment and other Aureos owned property including vehicles

Qualifications, Training and skills

Essential

• Driving Licence
• Ability to use IT systems including Microsoft 365, and HSQE specific systems.
• Active listening skills.
• To conduct yourself in a professional and polite manner at all times ensuring excellent customer service and the companies hard earned reputation are maintained.
• Time management and relationship skills, comfortably working effectively within a broad range of working environments.
• Strong interpersonal skills able to communicate clearly to inform and influence others; uses appropriate, effective methods to deliver messages, non-judgemental.
• Embraces and drives continuous improvement, challenging the status quo for the benefit of the business, supporting learning and development.
• Work autonomously and flexibly within the UK and Ireland – UK wide travel is essential.
• Positive attitude towards supporting and working with people.
• Hands on approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Be self-motivated, can work within a team and individually.
• Ability to use IT systems including Microsoft 365.
• Ability to work overtime if required.
• Presentation skills.Excellent standard of written and numerical literacy.

Desirable

• Mental Health First Aid trained.
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST.)
• Demonstrate relevant industry educational qualifications e.g NEBOSH.
• Background knowledge in physiology, psychology, healthcare, sports science or health & safety or similar.
• Experience of workplace health and wellbeing
• Experience in delivering a personal health check including measurement of finger prick cholesterol and glucose testing; BP; body composition using BIA; weight; height; waist; grip strength dynamometer : a risk CVD risk calculation software.
• Experience in motivational interviewing for personal health checks and behaviour change techniques including brief interventions
• Working knowledge of safeguarding / previous training in safeguarding
• Workplace health and wellbeing programmes and health promotion
• Data entry and use of web enabled database systems
• Passion for health, fitness, wellbeing related interest and experience

In return you will receive

• Generous Salary
• 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holiday
• Pension
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Assistance and Wellbeing support

Equal opportunities

Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.