Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join Suffolks new WorkWell service, delivered in partnership with Suffolk Mind, and make a difference by helping people overcome health-related barriers so they can remain in, return to, or start employment. You will build trusted relationships, understand what matters to each participant, and coordinate practical support across health, employment, skills and community services.

WorkWell is an early-intervention work and health service with a focus on prevention, which includes holistic support for their health-related barriers to employment. It will provide evidence based, low intensity work and health assessments that support individuals with their low-level occupational health needs to overcome barriers to work.

If you enjoy helping people identify their strengths, overcome barriers and take practical steps towards good work, we would love to hear from you. We welcome applications from candidates who meet the essential criteria and share our commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and person-centred care. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment and employment.

Main duties of the job
Make a difference you will:

• Complete holistic assessments and co-produce practical WorkWell plans with clear goals
• Provide personalised coaching and low-intensity work and health support
• Work with employers, with participant consent, to explore support, adjustments and sustainable return-to-work options
• Connect participants with the right local services through warm handovers and joined-up support

What youll bring:

• Experience of coaching, advising, guiding or supporting people one to one
• Excellent listening, communication and organisational skills
• An empathic, inclusive and strengths-based approach
• Confidence managing a caseload, maintaining records and seeking advice when needed

Why join us?

• A rare opportunity to help shape a new service supporting better health and employment outcomes across Suffolk
• A varied community-based role with training, supervision and multidisciplinary support
• A supportive organisation with established clinical governance.

We are a supportive employer committed to helping our people thrive through comprehensive training, development and ongoing support

About us
We are a supportive employer committed to helping our people thrive through comprehensive training, development and ongoing support

Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment and employment.

Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for further information for the role of WorkWell Lead (Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist)

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Extensive post-registration experience as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist
• Experience of assessing and managing people with complex physical, mental health, functional or psychosocial needs
• Strong understanding of biopsychosocial assessment, personalised care and shared decision making
• Experience of clinical leadership, supervision, coaching and competency development
• Experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working across health, community or employment-related pathways
• Experience of quality improvement, audit, service evaluation, clinical governance or risk management
• Knowledge of safeguarding, consent, confidentiality, clinical risk and escalation
• Knowledge of primary care, community services and wider work, health and skills pathways
• Understanding of health inequalities, barriers to employment, reasonable adjustments and return-to-work principles

Desirable

• Experience in vocational rehabilitation, occupational health, work and health, social prescribing or employment support
• Experience of issuing or managing fit notes
• Experience of service mobilisation or pathway redesign
• Experience of working with employers, commissioners or VCFSE partners
• Involvement in research, co-production or population health improvement

Qualifications
Essential

• Recognised diploma or degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
• Membership of the CSP or RCOT, or equivalent professional liability insurance
• Evidence of up-to-date relevant continuing professional development
• Relevant postgraduate learning or equivalent specialist development
• Meets, or is able to complete, organisational competency requirements for issuing fit notes

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification or Masters-level study
• Qualification in vocational rehabilitation, occupational health, health coaching or a related area
• Leadership, supervision, coaching or management training

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.