Health & Wellbeing Lead

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Job Description

Job Title: Health & Wellbeing Lead

Location: Washington, Tyne & Wear; Radway Green, Crewe; or Glascoed, South Wales

Salary: £53,927

 

What you’ll be doing:

  • Developing workplace wellbeing strategies by working alongside key stakeholders to create and implement wellbeing strategies aligned with business objectives, risk areas, and compliance requirements
  • Driving Occupational Health governance, ensuring compliance with legal, company, and industry standards in occupational health policies, processes, and governance frameworks
  • Overseeing external Occupational Health service providers by monitoring performance against agreements, ensuring alignment with business policies, and maintaining effective service delivery
  • Promoting wellbeing through thoughtfully designed and inclusive programs that focus on mental health, flexible working practices, intergenerational support, and empowering individuals at every career stage
  • Enhancing employee wellbeing and fostering engagement by creating inclusive support models, evaluating their impact, and promoting initiatives through diverse campaigns, inclusive events, and accessible communications
  • Engaging with senior leaders, HR, internal communications, and external providers to drive workplace wellbeing
  • Leading psychosocial risk assessments and health maturity matrix evaluations to continuously improve employee wellbeing

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Have a recognised professional registered Health & Wellbeing qualification or equivalent experience
  • Understanding of KPIs, SLAs, and contractual agreements along with experience of upholding these
  • Ability to take raw data and analyse (KPIs), and turn these into actionable tasks
  • Effective communicator with the ability to liaise with stakeholders at all levels

Desirable:

  • Experience in a similar role with a focus on Health & Wellbeing/Occupational Health

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Central SHE team:

Join a dynamic team driving workplace wellbeing and occupational health. Work with site SHE teams, Occupational Health, and Procurement while engaging externally with parties, allowing you to gain significant exposure across the business. Reporting to the Central SHE Governance and Systems Manager, you’ll help shape new contracts, standardisation, and wellbeing strategy. With travel opportunities and relationship-building at its core, this role offers the chance to influence and drive meaningful change!

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 10th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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