Personal Wellbeing Team Leader - (Cheshire)
Job Role
Do you enjoy helping people and have an interest in health and wellbeing? Have you got experience in a team leader position and are you looking to embark on a genuinely rewarding career?
Join our team as a Personal Wellbeing Team Leader and take a lead role in the co-ordination and delivery of services, ensuring that the Personal Wellbeing team meet the contractual objectives of HMPPS and other key stakeholders by providing a service that addresses and meets the needs of our participants.
You'll be responsible for the management of Personal Wellbeing Coaches and their performance in achieving both their individual and team plans and objectives, whilst contributing to the overall objectives and priorities set out in the organisational business plan. As a result, you will need substantial experience as an operational manager within the Criminal Justice system or similar environment.
Our successful candidate will also possess the ability to initiate, maintain and develop effective working relationships with all stakeholders in order to provide resources and services suitable for participants’ needs.
This is a rewarding opportunity that will allow you to utilise your skills to influence, support and encourage others to maximise their potential to build a better future.
In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we offer a competitive salary of £26,150 up to £32,688 per annum (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:
25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days)
2 Volunteer Days
Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer
Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
Annual salary review
Refer a friend scheme
Free access to Benefit Hub - an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme, and additional voluntary benefits
Interested? There’s an easy to apply route below to upload your CV! If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on 01702 595200.
Communities and Education is part of an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.
What it means to be employee-owned.
Location: Hybrid working, managing cases across Chester Travel around local area when required to attend meetings and participant appointments.
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 01 May 2025
Key Responsibilities
- Effective management of Personal Wellbeing Coaches
- Make operational decisions relating to resource deployment and risk management
- Develop and embed a high-quality team performance culture in which professional standards are upheld and participants enabled to achieve positive change
- Meet performance targets set by the Personal Wellbeing Manager
- Coordinate and support training delivery and briefings to maximise the effectiveness of the services provided
- Deliver intensive 1:1 interventions to high complexity participants addressing lifestyles and associates linked to offending behaviour
- Action and delegate referrals
- Report on performance as required to the Personal Wellbeing Manager identifying actions required to improve delivery
- Develop strong partnership relationships
- Give particular attention to the needs of minority groups within the participants groups who might otherwise be disadvantaged or discriminated against in gaining access to community-based resources
- Update and maintain an electronic database to record participant attendance and achievements, generate statistics and prepare reports and case studies
To view full job description, please use the following link: Personal Wellbeing Team Leader
Skills and Experience
Desirable
- Level 3 Management or equivalent
- Level 3 Award in Education and training (or PTLLS) – or willingness to undertake
- Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) qualification or equivalent to at least NVQ level 3 – or willingness to undertake
Essential
- Experience as an operational team leader within the Criminal Justice System or similar environment
- Demonstrable success in delivery of services under partnership arrangements
- Staff development and effective teamwork
- Performance management
- Embedding quality practice
- Evaluating outcomes to improve practice
- Ability to work flexibly according to the requirements of the post
- Experience of working with groups or individuals in order to motivate and change behaviour
- Experience of working with a variety of people who have experienced a range of social/personal difficulties
- Evidence working with disadvantaged individuals
- Confidence in identifying and developing relationships
Additional Information
Communities and Education Division is the Justice and Social Care division of Seetec, delivering tailored support to participants across a range of contracts, including as CFO Activity Hubs, Accommodation, Personal Wellbeing and Approved Premises. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to build a better future, regardless their past choices or the challenges they face.
We are committed to combining our knowledge, skills and talents across the justice and social care sectors to deliver services and interventions that overcome the barriers that hold people back from living more fulfilled lives. Ultimately, our aim is to equip individuals with the necessary skills needed to desist from offending, successfully reintegrate into to their local communities and address barriers to work.
Seetec is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.
You will be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Seetec support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in anyway. Our full policy statement of “Ex-Offenders” can be found on our website under” About us”
Seetec is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.