Health and Wellbeing Advisor

**About the role**

We’re looking for a compassionate, motivated, and well-organised **Health and Wellbeing Advisor** to join our Learning and Organisational Development Team. In this fixed-term role, you’ll play a key part in helping ensure the smooth running of our health and wellbeing services. Ashgate Hospice is committed to providing outstanding care and services - and that starts with supporting our people.

Ashgate Hospice is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. This means we are committed to inclusive hiring and encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

Make a meaningful difference every day. Ashgate Hospice is a values-led, people-first organisation where you’ll be part of an inclusive team making a real impact. We offer a welcoming workplace with access to ongoing training, wellbeing initiatives, and the chance to contribute to something truly meaningful.

**Hours**: Part-time 30 hours per week.

**Join our team as a**Health and Wellbeing Advisor and make a difference**

Do you want a job where you can help others and have a positive impact on your community? Then we’ve got the perfect role for you.

The health and wellbeing service is a critical part of day-to-day workforce support, ensuring all staff and volunteers are supported with efficient, compassionate, and well-timed advice and support to help ensure they have everything they need to deliver outstanding care and services to our patients, supporters and service users. You’ll be part of a team that values communication, mutual support, and a shared commitment to Ashgate Hospice’s purpose: to provide, educate, and campaign for excellent palliative and end-of-life care and bereavement support.

You’ll find the atmosphere here friendly, respectful, and encouraging—where everyone’s contribution is recognised and appreciated. If you’re organised, compassionate, and looking for a place where your work truly makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

You will join an enthusiastic team committed to mutual support with clear goals. The People and Culture team are focused on providing comprehensive support and resources for the workforce, including learning and organisational development. The team works hard to demonstrate the hospice values and the objectives of the people strategy; We will continue to develop our clinical expertise. We will ensure we have a skilled and supported workforce, enabled by technology. We will foster a positive and inclusive work environment.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Build collaborative relationships and partnerships both internally and externally to deliver the wellbeing offer.
- Share expert knowledge in the practice of workforce wellbeing and resilience.
- Champion flexible working and life balance, challenging thinking and attitudes to create a progressive, high trust and high support environment.
- Learn from the wellbeing needs of our staff and volunteers, leading on the design, delivery and evaluation of wellbeing interventions for our people.
- Lead on key delivery areas as part of the People & Culture delivery plan, shaping policy and practice.

**What you’ll bring**:
Here’s what we’re looking for:

- You’ll hold previous experience in health and wellbeing advice. You’ll also bring:

- A respectful and supportive approach
- A flexible attitude and willingness to support a close-knit team
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft 365
- Experience in a healthcare setting or charitable organisation (desirable)
- You will be an experienced, enthusiastic team member who is committed to health and wellbeing principles, strategies and resources to support our people at Ashgate hospice.
- You will have excellent communication, interpersonal and administrative skills to project manage and operationalise services to staff and volunteers.

**About Ashgate**:
Ashgate Hospice, based in North Derbyshire, offers free palliative and end of life care for adults with life-limiting or incurable illnesses, including cancer, neurological diseases, and advanced heart, kidney, and lung conditions. Last year, we cared for over 2,400 people. Our aim is to support our patients by keeping them informed, managing their symptoms, and improving their quality of life from diagnosis onwards.

We also provide vital support to the people who are important to them, offering practical assistance and emotional support, including bereavement services.

We’re more than a care provider. We’re a campaigner for sustainable end of life care funding in the UK, and we continually invest in our services and workforce.

**Our values are at the heart of everything we do**:

- We are compassionate.
- We are a team.
- We are respectful, open, and inclusive.

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

We strive to create a workplace that’s happy, safe, and supportive - and our team seems to agree In fact, 89% of staff would recommend Ashgate Hospice as an employer.

We know how important wellbeing and work-