PS/221/BCH Wellbeing Advisor

***Please note that this vacancy has now closed and is available to redeployees only; it will not be checked on a regular basis by the recruitment team. It is therefore essential that if you apply for this role, you e-mail BCHCareers@herts.pnn.police.uk to notify us that you have submitted an application. We will then process it for shortlisting. If you do not notify us by e-mail that you have submitted an application, it will not be picked up. Please also ensure that you notify your allocated Change Advisor of any redeployee applications that you have submitted.

***An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced Wellbeing Advisors to join the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary multi-disciplinary Occupational Health, Safety & Wellbeing team.
We are currently seeking to recruit two full time Wellbeing Advisors. One of these posts will be based, at the Welwyn Garden City southern OHSW hub and one at northern OHSW hub based at Sandy.

This is a unique opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team providing health and wellbeing advice to police officers and staff; you will work closely with other professionals to provide a customer focused service which supports both the organisation and, it’s most important resource, the people who work within it.

You will be able to work on your own initiative with a high degree of autonomy and demonstrate high levels of personal motivation, drive and resilience and the ability to manage a varied workload with ever changing priorities.

You will provide a proactive Occupational Wellbeing service to officers and staff identifying psychological risks and making recommendations on potential resolution. You will provide short term counselling in line with departmental guidelines and provide specialist advice to OH colleagues and managers on fitness for work.

Developing awareness of our Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) process you will support the TRiM managers and assessors and assist in promoting and auditing the programme.

You will need excellent communication and influencing skills both written and verbal and must be confident in using IT packages such as Microsoft office and databases.

Qualification and skills required are outlined in attached role profile.

There is a requirement to commit to professional supervision to maintain high standards of professional practice for both the practitioner and the client.

Driving licence required as the post holder will be required to travel between the three forces.

For more information about these roles, please contact Rosemary Jeffers, Occupational Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager on 01707 354132.

For the purposes of the application you will be expected to provide evidence against the four personal qualities below and the entry requirements:

• Leading Change
• Managing Performance
• Professionalism
• Decision Making

There is a word count limit of 500 words per section.

Please note, if you are shortlisted for interview you will be expected to evidence against all personal qualities and the entry requirements stipulated in the role profile.

Please note that this advert will be live to Redeployee's through out the recruitment of this advert. Any redeployee that applies will only need to evidence against the minimum entry requirements of the role profile. They will take priority over other candidates at any point during the recruitment process up until a final offer is produced and you will be notified if this happens.