WorkWell Lead Project Officer

Full Time: 37 hours per week

Salary: £26,493.48

Location: 48 High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP1 3AF

We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Lead Project Officer to oversee the coordination and execution of the WorkWell project within our Employability Team. This role involves the overall coordination of the project, ensuring all timelines, resources, and deliverables are met. The successful candidate will be responsible for gathering and consolidating information from various NHS services and charities, compiling comprehensive reports, and ensuring clear communication across all stakeholders.

The WorkWell scheme is a voluntary program that helps people with health conditions or disabilities return to work or stay in their current role, and there are a number of pilot programmes of work being developed across the country. Programmes of work include:

• an early-intervention work and health assessment service, with low-intensity holistic support for their health-related barriers to employment (such as employer liaison and work and health coaching)

• a single gateway into services that are available locally to tackle their specific needs. This could include healthcare professionals, community sector services, health promotion programmes, more intensive employment support, and much more

Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System are now keen to apply learning from the WorkWell pilot sites and review their current work and health assessment services and develop recommendations to provide improved support to our population – and these roles are key in understanding this learning and developing those recommendations.

So if you are a proactive individual and: