Health, Safety and Wellbeing Project Officer - Caernarfon, United Kingdom - Gwynedd Council

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Job title:
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Project Officer


Directorate:
Corporate Support


Service:
Health, Safety and Welfare


Closing date:
07/12/2023 10:00


Job type/Hours:
Temporary year | 37 Hour


Salary:
£29,269 - £31,364 a year


Pay Scale:
S2


Location(s):
Caernarfon


Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pa
ck
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually.

The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

For further information about this post please contact
Gail Warrington on
Interview date to be confirmed

Application forms and further details available from, Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH


CLOSING DATE:10.00 am, 07/12/2023

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Information Pack Corporate


Personal attributes:


Essential:

Ability to analyse data and conduct research independently.

Work flexibly within the framework of a busy team.

Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with the Council's stakeholders.

Demonstrates initiative 'see work'.


Desirable:

Be able to identify opportunities to improve.


Qualifications and relevant training:


Essential:

Degree / Training in a relevant field


Desirable:

Qualification in the occupational health field or within the teaching field


Relevant experience:


Essential:

Experience of coordinating Projects

Coaching experience / qualifications


Desirable:

Experience working in the health field.

Experience in conducting research

Experience making presentations and/or coaching

Experience preparing reports

Experience in policy making


Skills and specialist knowledge:


Essential:

Confident IT skills


Desirable:

Experience inputting and outputting information from IT systems and running reports.

Training on well-being topics


Language requirements:


Listening and Speaking - Higher:


Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.


Reading and Understanding - Higher:

Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.


Writing - Higher:


Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).


Purpose of the post:


  • Review Cyngor Gwynedd's arrangments on mental wellbeing and stress in the workplace/musculoskeletal both corporately, and locally within the Services.
  • Develop a work stream on the current strategy which is based on the latest research and good practice within the field, with the intention of having a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of staff and in turn the Council's absence levels.
  • Assisting in developing and introducing a new computer system for the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Team.
  • Ensuring that the people of Gwynedd are central to everything we do.

Responsibility for functions:


Main duties:


  • Research good practice and the latest developments in stress management and mental wellbeing in the workplace.
  • Develop a stress management / mental wellbeing programme within the Council, at corporate level, as well as local strategies with individual teams.
  • Collaborate with Occupational Health Unit officers to design an evidencebased health promotion programme. Establish a procedure for measuring the impact of that programme, including feedback from the Council's Wellbeing Staff questionnaire.
  • Conduct I-Act training sessions and/or workshops with staff and managers on stress / mental wellbeing / health and safety computer system issues.
  • Carry out presentations to management teams on stress management / mental wellbeing / health and safety computer system issues.
  • Assist managers in interpreting stress illness absence statistics corporately and within individual services, producing reports.
  • Produce information packs and resources for staff and managers about stress / mental wellbeing.
  • Collaborate with external organisations e.g. Public Health Wales and Mind Cymru on mental wellbeing issues, to identify any good / best practice that can be implemented.
  • Contribute to a review of current Council documentation e.g. mental wellbeing policy, stress risk assessment, health and safety computer system instructions.
  • Attend and contrinute to relevant meetings for research and/or establish new arrangements.
  • Working with the Information Technology Service to create a programme of work to deliver a new computer system across the Council.
  • Responsibility for selfdevelopment.
  • Ensure compliance with He
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