Transport for Wales
Occupational Health and Wellbeing Lead (0834)
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Please note: this is a 2 year fixed term contract
The Role
The Occupational Health and Wellbeing Lead delivers and supports a comprehensive wellbeing strategy across a complex organisation, serving both frontline and head office environments, ensuring employees perform at their best while meeting regulatory requirements, and acting as the key liaison with external occupational health and wellbeing partners to provide consistent, high-quality, and commercially effective services.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic oversight of Occupational Health (OH) and wellbeing services primarily EAP across the organisation, acting as the senior interface with external providers to ensure delivery against contractual SLAs/KPIs and alignment with organisational priorities.
- Oversee people OH case management processes by ensuring compliance with relevant legislation (e.g. Equality Act, Health and Safety requirements) and monitor service quality, challenge performance, to drive continuous improvement within OH case management.
- Provides strategic leadership for mental health and wellbeing by overseeing specialist support services and external partnerships (e.g EAP, counselling services), developing policies, training and targeted interventions, and advising senior leaders on complex and sensitive cases to ensure accessible, effective support and a psychologically healthy workforce.
- Oversee organisation's absence management strategy by ensuring the consistent and fair application of attendance policies, using data-driven insights and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce absence, support employee wellbeing, and improve organisational performance.
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Who We're Looking For
- A relevant professional qualification e.g. IOSH, NEBOSH, Level 5 workplace wellbeing diploma or Occupational Health Nursing qualification such as Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
- Experience in an Occupational Health, Wellbeing, or HR/People role involving employee health and absence management
- Experience of delivering or supporting wellbeing initiatives or programmes
- Knowledge of employment legislation relating to absence, disability, and workplace health
- Understanding of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
Welsh Language Skills
While not essential for this role, Welsh language skills would make a great addition to your application.
TfW support anyone who wants to learn Welsh or improve their skills. We offer online learning, classroom courses and funding attendance at local community courses.
Equal Opportunities
We're changing the way the transport industry looks. By celebrating and embracing differences, we're building a workforce that represents Wales. We need talented people from all backgrounds and cultures to bring their perspectives and experiences. Diverse teams make better decisions and drive innovation. Join us in transforming the way Wales travels.
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Who We Are
Transport for Wales is changing the way Wales travels, making sustainable transport the first choice. We're building a multimodal integrated transport network called the T Network, making it easier for people to travel by train, bus, walking, wheeling and cycling.
Next steps
See attached Job Description for further details and how to apply. If you want to find out more about what we're doing in Wales, see our Annual Report.
We're a Disability Confident Leader. Let us know about any reasonable adjustments you may need in the recruitment process and as part of the role if you are successful.
This advert will close at 23:59 on the day of the application closing date stated above. However, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive enough applications. We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
It is likely interviews will take place within 2-3 weeks of the closing date.
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