Health and Wellbeing Adviser in Portsmouth, United Kingdom

The Role

The Heath & Wellbeing Advisor will manage a caseload of customers in addressing their barriers to employment through evidence-based health or wellbeing advice. You will support with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy across UK employability in developing a holistic health and employment approach whilst progressing customers closer to the labour market and into sustainable employment.

Location: Portsmouth (office-based role with 1 day hybrid)

Salary: £30k – £34k depending on qualifications and experience

You will be……

• Providing evidence-based health or wellbeing advice using clinical expertise and judgement for customers to address barriers to employment

• Promoting positive self-care and well-being strategies to maintain customer engagement, motivation and resilience

• Delivering health education, lifestyle and well-being workshops through face-to-face and digital platforms. These sessions may include Anxiety Management, Managing Stress & Resilience, Sleep & Routine, Assertiveness, Managing Interview Nerves and to also be involved in the planning of workshop activities

• Performing biopsychosocial assessments and deliver 1-2-1 sessions with customers to assist them in improving their wellbeing and support with producing tailored, employment-focused action plans

• Working closely with the Employment Advisers and wider teams to manage customer referrals and supporting activities, ensuring action plans are aligned and updated via regular case conferences

• Developing relationships and networks with key stakeholders including employers, job centre teams, GPs and other healthcare providers

• Observing and adhere to our customer service standards so that all customers are provided with the same high standard of service that maximise their chances of securing sustainable employment

About You

• Ability to embrace our company values which are Kindness, Respect, Integrity, and Innovation

• Qualified health professional registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), or British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)

• Previous experience supporting individuals with physical and mental health difficulties in a participant facing environment.

• Experience of presenting and delivering health or wellbeing related group interventions, facilitating workshops or training sessions face to face and through digital technology.

• Ability to build rapport, engage and coach individuals to progress.

• Ability to develop positive relationships and successfully manage those relationships, with a range of internal and external stakeholders

• Supported customers with health issues in a back to work, vocational rehabilitation or occupational health setting

• This role is a mobile role and will involve travel in and around the Portsmouth and Sussex area. Therefore key to the role is a willingness to work in a range of different offices each week

Key Competencies:

• Adaptability

• Results focused

• Customer centric

• Rapport building

• Resilience

• Quality & Compliance

What else can we offer you?…

…a rewarding career that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives.

• You won’t work on weekends or bank holidays!

• A monthly benefits scheme worth £500 annually with access to over 900 retailers

• A cycle to work scheme that is open all year long!

• Laptop and mobile phone for every employee!

• Employee assistance programme (EAP). A telephone service offering various support services including emotional support, stress helpline amongst others.

• The opportunity of an Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) qualification for all employees

• A two-week Induction and training programme

• Company annual leave, including a buy/sell scheme

• Free life cover!

• Pension with a 5% match from Fedcap

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Disability Confident Employer and Access to Work

Fedcap is a recognised Disability Confident Leader with commitments to aim to recruit, retain and develop disabled people within the company. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and will offer to support with reasonable adjustments where required.

As a Disability confident employer, we work in partnership with other organisations’ to underpin the governments aspiration to support disabled customers into work. This includes but not limited to making reasonable adjustments and providing specialist equipment to those who need it so they can work in a comfortable working environment.

Veterans and service personnel

Fedcap is positive about employing veterans and service personnel spouses or family members as part of our commitment to upholding principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.

Advert expiry: If you are interested in the position we recommend applying at your earliest convenience. Fedcap reserves the right to withdraw a job advertisement at any time.

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