# Group Head of Health & Wellbeing > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/group-head-of-health-and-wellbeing/e0182990-3727-43a5-9517-64ce2ba07e93 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/group-head-of-health-and-wellbeing/e0182990-3727-43a5-9517-64ce2ba07e93.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 Per annum pro rata inc HCAS (inner London) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-06T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-22T12:51:51.706Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Tooting/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Admin_Clerical/Admin_Clerical-v7997299 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7997299?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role leads on the development and delivery of the Group’s Health & Wellbeing offer and the programme work designed to ensure GESH continues to prioritise and improve the health and wellbeing of our staff. This role will shape and drive the long-term health and wellbeing strategic plan aligning the offer across the group and ensuring it is delivering on the goals of the People Strategy, organisation’s workforce priorities, and national NHS objectives. The post holder will work with senior colleagues to specify, design, deliver and evaluate bespoke health promotion and organisational development interventions to respond to people and cultural issues that influence health and wellbeing, identified through a range of available data and key performance metrics such as the NHS Staff survey. ### Main duties of the job - Develop a strong health and wellbeing brand and innovative marketing strategies to promote the programme and general health promotion messages both internally and externally. Deliver interventions with the scale and impact to create a positive culture of health and wellbeing within the organisation, where (i) managers take an active role in understanding the needs of their staff and in supporting them to maintain good health; and (ii) individuals are empowered to strengthen their own health and wellbeing. - Operate as an internal expert and consultant on wellbeing and to lead and collaborate on programmes of work to provide individual and team specific interventions that improve wellbeing, effectiveness, culture and performance, based on diagnostics using quantitative and qualitative data and information. - Work in partnership with key stakeholders to understand shared priorities and develop joint objectives, specifically in relation to health and wellbeing, and areas that influence it directly and indirectly. Ensure the engagement and involvement of a wide range of internal staff and external stakeholders/experts in the production and implementation of staff wellbeing priorities and solutions. ***Please refer to Attached Job Description for further information** ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ***Please refer to Attached Job Description for further information** The effectiveness of our Health and Wellbeing offer is vital to achieving our CARE Strategy and positively improving our staff engagement. We want gesh to be a place where people thrive and recommend as a great place to work. The improvements this post holder designs and implements should have a positive impact on the quality of care that we provide and support our financial goals as we optimise staff attendance and reduce sickness absence. Specifically, the post holder will define our strategic and prioritised approach to improving staff health and wellbeing and be responsible for putting in place a wide range of supportive options in order to promote and deliver these objectives. In addition to a strong and responsive offer, the post holder will proactively research systemic barriers to wellbeing in our current practice and work with stakeholders to address them and implement improvements. The post holder will support and guide Directors, Clinicians and Managers at all levels of the organisation to develop strategic, tactical and operational health and wellbeing interventions to achieve positive results. This will contribute to a high performing culture where everyone recognises the importance of health and wellbeing and knows how to maximise their own and their teams to deliver great engagement and high-quality healthcare to our patients. ## Job Details This role leads on the development and delivery of the Group’s Health & Wellbeing offer and the programme work designed to ensure GESH continues to prioritise and improve the health and wellbeing of our staff. This role will shape and drive the long-term health and wellbeing strategic plan aligning the offer across the group and ensuring it is delivering on the goals of the People Strategy, organisation’s workforce priorities, and national NHS objectives. The post holder will work with senior colleagues to specify, design, deliver and evaluate bespoke health promotion and organisational development interventions to respond to people and cultural issues that influence health and wellbeing, identified through a range of available data and key performance metrics such as the NHS Staff survey. ## Job Description Develop a strong health and wellbeing brand and innovative marketing strategies to promote the programme and general health promotion messages both internally and externally. Deliver interventions with the scale and impact to create a positive culture of health and wellbeing within the organisation, where (i) managers take an active role in understanding the needs of their staff and in supporting them to maintain good health; and (ii) individuals are empowered to strengthen their own health and wellbeing. Operate as an internal expert and consultant on wellbeing and to lead and collaborate on programmes of work to provide individual and team specific interventions that improve wellbeing, effectiveness, culture and performance, based on diagnostics using quantitative and qualitative data and information. Work in partnership with key stakeholders to understand shared priorities and develop joint objectives, specifically in relation to health and wellbeing, and areas that influence it directly and indirectly. Ensure the engagement and involvement of a wide range of internal staff and external stakeholders/experts in the production and implementation of staff wellbeing priorities and solutions. ***Please refer to Attached Job Description for further information** ## Responsibilities ***Please refer to Attached Job Description for further information** The effectiveness of our Health and Wellbeing offer is vital to achieving our CARE Strategy and positively improving our staff engagement. We want gesh to be a place where people thrive and recommend as a great place to work. The improvements this post holder designs and implements should have a positive impact on the quality of care that we provide and support our financial goals as we optimise staff attendance and reduce sickness absence. Specifically, the post holder will define our strategic and prioritised approach to improving staff health and wellbeing and be responsible for putting in place a wide range of supportive options in order to promote and deliver these objectives. In addition to a strong and responsive offer, the post holder will proactively research systemic barriers to wellbeing in our current practice and work with stakeholders to address them and implement improvements. The post holder will support and guide Directors, Clinicians and Managers at all levels of the organisation to develop strategic, tactical and operational health and wellbeing interventions to achieve positive results. This will contribute to a high performing culture where everyone recognises the importance of health and wellbeing and knows how to maximise their own and their teams to deliver great engagement and high-quality healthcare to our patients. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Extensive experience of delivering evidence based health behaviour change, designing appropriate interventions, and how these can be applied to the NHS clinical and non-clinical staff workforce. - Track record of delivering change programmes in complex and large organisations, demonstrating impactful and sustainable change. ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - Evidence of continued learning / professional development in the area of health and wellbeing and/or health promotion and/or facilitating health behaviour change in individuals/populations. **Desirable** - A relevant qualification such as a Masters Health Promotion, Psychology, Nursing, Organisational Development or equivalent relevant experience at strategic leadership level. ## Documents - [onboarding roadmap (pdf, 440.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3007) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045) - [group head of health and wellbeing - jd (pdf, 352.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10281920) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.