Working Well Facilitator in Chelmsford

Main area: Working Well

Grade Band: 4

Contract: 2 years (Fixed term)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 828-PROVIDE4019

Employer: Provide CIC

Employer type: NHS

Site: Kestrel House

Town: Chelmsford

Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 16/04/2026 23:59

Job Overview: Working Well is commissioned by Essex County Council and sits within the Essex Wellbeing Service. This fast-paced, innovative programme supports the national and local agenda around workplace health and wellbeing, ensuring that the Essex workforce is healthy and productive.

Main duties of the job: Working as part of a close-knit team, the post holder will be responsible for promoting, onboarding and supporting Essex workplaces to develop a holistic health and wellbeing programme. The role is home-based, but there are regular team meetings at Provide sites, as well as workplace visits, including the delivery of our SiSU Digital Health Check stations, and attending business networking events. It is essential that the post holder has a driving licence and access to a car, as well as a good working knowledge of Essex. The post holder will need to possess excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and be willing to learn in-house booking and survey software. The post holder should demonstrate a solution-focused attitude and an ability to work independently, but also collaboratively to meet 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.

Vision, Values & Mission:

• 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.

Equal Opportunity: 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.

Person specification:

• Essential criteria: Foundation degree/NVQ level 5 (or equivalent) and other demonstrable work-based experience
• Desirable criteria: Evidence of commitment to CPD (health improvement, project management, IT packages), Understanding Health Improvement Level 2 NCSCT qualification or willingness to undertake it, Making Every Contact Count Training or willingness to undertake it, RSPH Workplace Health Champion training or equivalent

• Essential criteria: Demonstrable experience of planning and organising complex activities or programmes using a range of IT packages i.e. Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel, Word and survey platforms, Complete in-depth employer wellbeing survey analysis and prepare a Wellbeing Action Plan with employers, taking into consideration the complexity of economic pressures and legal requirements and local considerations, Understand the national and local/sector benchmarking data and provide input that will support an effective Wellbeing Strategy, Proactive in working collaboratively to achieve service outcomes, Ability to follow processes and procedures and make recommendations for changes to practice
• Desirable criteria: Group facilitation skills

• Essential criteria: Car owner and ability to drive and be able to travel various sites in Essex. Ability to drive the Provide Outreach vehicle

• Essential criteria: Demonstrable experience of project management or a similar role which has involved the management of multiple workstreams and achievement of KPIs in a business environment, Experience in a workplace health improvement or HR role, Demonstrable experience of analysing complex data and providing feedback on findings and providing bespoke innovative recommendations to employers, Demonstrable understanding of behaviour change theory, Clear and demonstrable understanding of health inequalities and explain how a wellbeing programme can reduce health risks and inequalities, To be able to escalate clinical risks identified by the digital health check programme to employees and employers, Experience of delivering presentations and guest speaker sessions at networking and business meetings
• Desirable criteria: Experience of working in a public health community focused setting i.e. volunteering, Experience of using LMS and booking systems

• Essential criteria: Solution Focused attitude, Ability to work on own initiative using judgement skills to plan out work whilst meeting the required deadlines, Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise with people at all levels in the workplace and with partner organisations, Ability to communicate sensitive health information to employers and employees

• Essential criteria: Ability to work occasional evening and weekends and travel and work throughout Essex, Ability to effectively deliver and install the digital health check stations, Car owner/driver and ability to drive to various locations
• Desirable criteria: Ability to drive the Provide CIC Mobile Outreach Vehicle

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 provide.recruitment1@nhs.net. If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

Checking progress on your application? To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.

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 provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.

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 Coordinators. 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.