Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by: Increasing capacity Improving customer service Safeguarding security Enhancing resilience Decarbonising Delivering increased efficiency Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: Future-shaping strategic consultancy Consultancy and advisory Digital technology solutions Asset optimisation Complex programme delivery Our culture and values underpin everything we do. Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to the Disability Confident website: Disability Confident
People Experience and Wellbeing Advisor
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
39 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Mid Level
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Job Description
People Experience and Wellbeing Advisor
Costain Group
The main purpose of the role will be to oversee the successful execution of our People Experience and Wellbeing offerings, in line with our People Experience & Reward Strategy. This will include: - Delivering on the short, medium, and long-term company objectives for creating a thriving workforce, where holistic wellbeing outcomes are prioritised for all our colleagues by: - Supporting the delivery of people experience and wellbeing programmes and associated policies and processes, with a focus on adding value by linking in with our benefit propositions and maximising collaboration with our many networks, both internal and external. - Providing education and communication about people experience and wellbeing to our colleagues at all levels in the organisation, leading to reduced sickness absence, greater productivity, and increased engagement. This role will be a remote, fixed term contract for 6 months and will require occasional travel to offices. #LI-JK1
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