Health and Wellbeing Facilitator

The Fedcap Group; Reading; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A not-for-profit organization is seeking a Heath & Wellbeing Facilitator to support customers facing health-related barriers to employment. The role involves providing evidence-based advice, running wellness workshops, and collaborating with various teams to help clients achieve sustainable employment. Candidates should possess experience in health promotion and a strong results-focused mentality.

Benefits

Minimum 33 days’ holiday entitlement

Up to 5% pension contribution

Free life assurance cover

Qualifications

• Experience in health promotion or public health.
• Experience supporting individuals with health conditions.
• Knowledge of local specialist networks.

Responsibilities

• Provide health and wellbeing advice to customers.
• Deliver lifestyle and well-being workshops.
• Develop action plans based on biopsychosocial assessments.

Skills

Health promotion

Public health

Target-driven

Workshop facilitation

Building rapport

Job description

Job Description

Salary: £27 - £30k

Location: Onsite in Reading, Slough & Staines. You will be expected to travel to the three sites during the week.

Who We Are

Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving people’s economic wellbeing. Delivering a range of employability programmes and services, we passionately believe that good work is part of a healthy life. In the past five years, we’ve supported more than 35,000 people across the UK back into work, helping families get out of poverty and improving their quality of life. We’re part of The Fedcap Group, a pioneering US-charity formed in 1935.

The Role

The Heath & Wellbeing Facilitator will support customers with health and wellbeing related barriers to employment. The Facilitator will use a holistic health and employment approach whilst integrating into Fedcap’s employability teams, and progressing customers closer to work and into sustainable employment.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based health or wellbeing advice using clinical expertise and judgement for customers to address barriers to employment
• Meet Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets regarding customer activity, such as the number of 1-1 and group interventions per month
• Promote positive self-care and wellbeing strategies to maintain customer engagement, motivation, and resilience
• Deliver lifestyle and well-being groups and workshops through face-to-face and digital platforms, including Confidence Building, Managing Stress & Resilience, Sleep & Routine, Assertiveness, and Managing Interview Nerves, and participate in planning workshop activities
• Perform biopsychosocial assessments and deliver one-to-one sessions to help customers improve their well-being and develop tailored, employment-focused action plans
• Work closely with Employment Advisors and wider teams to manage customer referrals and supporting activities, ensuring action plans are aligned and updated via regular case conferences
• Develop relationships and networks with key stakeholders, including employers, jobcentre teams, GPs, and other healthcare providers

Essential Skills & Experience

• Ability to embrace our company values: Kindness, Respect, Integrity, and Innovation
• Experience in health promotion or public health
• Results-focused and able to thrive in a target-driven environment
• Experience supporting individuals with physical and mental health conditions in participant-facing environments
• Experience presenting and delivering health or wellbeing group interventions, facilitating workshops or training sessions face-to-face and digitally
• Ability to build rapport, engage, and coach individuals towards progress
• Knowledge of local specialist networks and provisions

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of the employability sector and local labour market
• Experience supporting customers with health issues in back-to-work, vocational rehabilitation, or occupational health settings
• Working towards full professional registration with HCPC, NMC, BACP, or BABCP (desirable)

Your Benefits

Alongside dedicated health and wellbeing support, including access to our 24/7 employee assistance programme, we offer clear stages of accredited development and learning, as well as a wide range of benefits including:

• Minimum 33 days’ holiday entitlement and up to 5% pension contribution
• Monthly benefits scheme worth up to an additional £500
• Free life assurance cover, totaling four times your annual salary
• And much more

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to equal opportunities and adheres to its Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy, as well as the Equality Act 2010. We are a Disability Confident Leader employer, ensuring reasonable adjustments are made during recruitment to support applicants with disabilities.

About Us

Mission: To create opportunities for people by designing and delivering innovative, sustainable solutions and creating measurable changes for those who are socially disadvantaged.

Fedcap Employment and Fedcap Employment Scotland deliver employability solutions across the UK, supporting underserved groups such as single parents, formerly incarcerated individuals, and those with health or mental health challenges.

Our programs provide targeted employment support, and we are part of The Fedcap Group since 2018.

Website: http://www.fedcapemployment.org/