Workplace Health & Wellbeing Training Practitioner

Provide Community; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

A community interest company in Chelmsford is seeking a Training Practitioner for a 2-year fixed-term contract. The role focuses on developing health training programs aimed at improving workplace health and mental well-being. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in health improvement roles. Salary ranges from £31,049 to £37,796 pro rata, with part-time hours of 30 per week.

Qualifications

• Degree or NVQ Level 5 qualification and equivalent experience.
• Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development.
• Experience in a health improvement role.

Responsibilities

• Develop, update, and deliver health training and webinars.
• Complete detailed analysis and reports on training effectiveness.
• Research workplace needs to provide updated support.

Skills

Group facilitation skills

Communication skills

IT skills

Education

Degree/NVQ Level 5

Train The Trainer qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

Overview

Main area: Training Grade Band 5. Contract: 2 years (Fixed Term). Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week. Job ref: 828-PROVIDE3677. Employer: Provide CIC. Employer type: NHS. Site: Community. Town: Chelmsford. Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata. Salary period: Yearly. Closing: 08/10/2025 23:59.

Job Overview

Working Well is commissioned by Essex County Council and sits within the Essex Wellbeing Service. The programme aims to support the holistic health and wellbeing of any workplace based in Essex. We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated training practitioner to join our team as part of a 2 year fixed-term contract to update our existing eLearning and organise and deliver additional training, webinars and guest speaker sessions.

The 2 year contract will focus on reducing health inequalities and improving mental health literacy of the Essex routine and manual workforce, in line with Essex County Council's Everyone's Essex, Public Health and Communities Business Plan 2025-2028 and the new national NICE Guidance (212) around workplace mental health.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the work within the specialist area of workplace health improvement. Working with key partners to develop, update and deliver a wide range of guest speaker sessions, webinars, online training, eLearning modules and factsheets.
• Support the delivery of in-house MHFA England training courses using in-house and external trainers.
• Research current workplace needs and trends and provide up-to-date information to support managers and employees.
• Complete a detailed analysis report on training developed, delivered, ensuring evidence of impact against key project outcomes.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people's homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Researching current workplace needs and trends and provide up to date information to support managers and employers on a range of topics including: stress, mental health, men's health, women's health, neurodiversity, financial wellbeing, mental health and suicide prevention.
• Reviewing and developing eLearning modules, online training and factsheets, ensuring all programmes are up-to-date and evidenced based, that will meet the changing needs of the Working Well programme.
• In collaboration with partners develop a range of mindfulness tools that will engage and support the Essex routine and manual workforce.
• Support the management and delivery of in-house MHFA England training programmes
• Complete detailed analysis and report on training developed and delivered, ensuring evidence of impact against key outcomes.

Person specification

Qualifications And Education

Essential criteria

• Degree/NVQ Level 5 (or equivalent) and other demonstrable equivalent work based experience
• Train The Trainer qualification or equivalent level or knowledge or experience
• Evidence of commitment to CPD

Desirable criteria

• Understanding Health Improvement Level 2 or equivalent experience
• Trained Mental Health First Aid England Trainer

Work related knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in a health improvement role
• Experience of delivering face to face and/or online environment on wide range of health, wellbeing and workplace subjects
• Experience of analyzing data and providing feedback, findings and recommendations
• Experience of project management within a similar role, involving managing multiple workstreams
• Demonstrable understanding of behaviour change theory
• Clear and demonstrable understanding of health inequalities
• Demonstrable administrative experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a public health community focused setting
• Experience of delivering MHFA England training programmes
• Experience of using online booking systems such as Smoothbook

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable evidence of group facilitation skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and plan and organise complex activities or training programmes
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise with people at all levels
• Demonstrable IT skills across Microsoft packages including Excel, Powerpoint and Word
• Ability to develop, follow and manage multiple processes and procedures to ensure the completion of workflow and data capture required

Desirable criteria

• Ability to use and manage multi-media platforms including webinars, Speechify, Jellypod etc

Circumstances

Essential criteria

• Car owner - must be able to travel to various areas of Essex as part of the job

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via [e-mail]
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or [e-mail].

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.