Health and Wellbeing Advisor

St John; Redcar; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Hybrid working

Flexible working hours

Local Government Pension Scheme

Salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing platform

Staff network groups

Job summary

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is recruiting a Health and Wellbeing Advisor to join the Human Resources Team in a hybrid role. You will advise managers and employees on health, attendance and wellbeing policies, and support cases involving long-term sickness and rehabilitation plans.

You will promote the Better Health at Work Award, deliver health promotion events and coordinate employee benefits and recognition programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Human Resources role.
• Understanding of employment law and rehabilitation plans.
• Experience advising on complex HR issues and absence management.
• Knowledge of stress risk assessment management.

Responsibilities

• Advise managers and staff on HR policies and absence issues.
• Proactively manage absence cases and rehabilitation plans.
• Promote and deliver Better Health at Work and health promotion events.
• Coordinate employee benefits and discounts programmes.
• Support reward and recognition and long service initiatives.
• Organise health promotion activities throughout the year.

Skills

HR experience

Employment law

Health and wellbeing

Customer focus

Influencing skills

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Human Resources Team, working within a specialist Health, Safety and Wellbeing team and closely with the wider team of HR Advisors.

We are looking to recruit an experienced Human Resources member of staff, who is highly motivated, passionate, customer-focused and ambitious Health and Wellbeing Advisor.

You will work closely with managers and employees, providing them excellent advice in line with our Health, attendance and wellbeing policy, alongside other HR policies and procedures, as appropriate. You must have an understanding of employment law, reasonable adjustments, rehabilitation plans and understand the importance of stress risk assessment management.

We are seeking a Health and Wellbeing Advisor, to provide a key role in the delivery of:

Proactive management of Absence Cases

The job role, which adopts a flexible, hybrid working approach, supports Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council employees if they are absent from work due to long-term sickness, supporting employees back into the workplace or exploring alternative options. You will require a proven track record of advising on complex HR issues and providing customer focused HR solutions, using influencing and persuasion skills at times.

Your passion should include reducing the number of days absence across the authority by offering and supporting employees and management alike.

Better Health at Work Award

The award-winning team are also involved in the achievement of maintaining excellence of the Better Health at Work Award, which has been achieved for 10 + years. Therefore, the role would include promoting, delivering, organising health promotion events throughout the year. How would you encourage participation?

Employee benefits and discounts

The team are responsible for all employee benefits and discounts, including, car lease scheme, Viv-up payroll pay schemes, bike scheme and much more.

Reward and Recognition Programme

With the Reward and Recognition programme, you will play a supporting role in recognising employees outstanding achievements, including being proactive in supporting the long service programme.

Do you have significant experience in a Human Resource type role, Are you passionate about Health and Wellbeing? Would you like to support employees, through health promotion, reward and recognition and support managers/employees within absence meetings? Is this post for you?

The hybrid approach enables you to manage the pressures of life alongside a rewarding career. We have changed our flexi-time policy too, meaning even greater flexibility in working hours, so that you are supported to take time for those important things in life when you need to.

The post is a 2 year fixed term role and is full time, 37 hours per week, working Monday to Friday.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held either week commencing 23rd or 30th November.

Our workforce is our greatest asset, and to show we mean this we offer many benefits including generous holiday entitlement, flexible hybrid working that meets your needs, as well as those of the people we serve. Take a look at our comprehensive rewards and benefits package – Total Rewards Brochure.

• Generous annual leave of up to 34 days per year
• Hybrid Working (where appropriate)
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to numerous other salary sacrifice schemes
• Access to our employee health and wellbeing platform, which includes an exciting range of staff benefits, including, spreading the cost of home and electronics, bike shop, car scheme, gym membership, lifestyle savings
• A range of Staff Network groups