About Oak Activities
Oak Activities is a leading Alternative Provision education provider based across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, supporting young people through a holistic and blended learning approach. With 8 sites and over 100 staff, Oak is making a tangible difference in the lives of children and young adults in our communities.
Oak Activities is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children. We abide by our Safer Recruitment policy strictly including right to work checks, identification checks, referencing checks and DBS checks.
Role Overview
The Wellbeing Supervisor is responsible for providing structured, supportive, and reflective supervision to staff using relevant clinical and resilience-based models. This role focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing, building personal and professional resilience, and supporting staff in navigating challenges in high-stress environments. The supervisor ensures a safe and confidential space for reflection, learning, and growth, ultimately contributing to improved performance, reduced burnout, and stronger team cohesion.
This is a full-time role, working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
The salary for this role is £40,000 per annum.
Core Responsibilities
· Deliver wellbeing supervision sessions to individuals and teams
· Foster reflective practice, encouraging staff to explore experiences, challenges, and coping strategies.
· Identify strengths, protective factors, and areas for professional development
· Support staff in developing resilience skills such as emotional regulation, stress management, and self-care.
· Promote healthy work–life balance and strategies to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue.
· Act as a point of contact for staff wellbeing concerns, signposting additional resources where appropriate.
· Ensure all supervision practice aligns with safeguarding policies and statutory guidance.
· Maintain an awareness of safeguarding themes that may arise during supervision and escalate concerns directly to the DSL/Deputy DSL.
· Support staff to recognise safeguarding risks and reflect on professional practice in line with safer working guidance.
· Model safe, ethical, and professional boundaries in all aspects of supervision.
· Design workshops and training sessions on resilience, wellbeing, and reflective practice and safeguarding awareness.
· Share evidence-based approaches and resilience frameworks with teams.
· Contribute to staff development programs with a focus on resilience and wellbeing.
· Maintain supervision records in line with confidentiality, safeguarding, and organisational policies.
· Monitor progress, identify themes or systemic issues, and provide feedback to leadership.
· Evaluate the effectiveness of supervision and adapt approaches to meet evolving needs.
· Support the Training and Compliance team to delivery outreach support and training to external stakeholders.
· Support schools/academies in embedding emotional literacy and resilience provision to students guided by SEMH and Emotional Literacy lead.
· Provide targeted wellbeing interventions and reflective practice support to staff of stakeholders who commission Oak Activities outreach packages.
· Work with managers, HR, and each provision to strengthen organisational resilience strategies.
· Contribute to building a supportive culture that values reflection, learning, and staff care.
· Work in support of the Emotional Literacy and SEMH Lead to embed emotional literacy as a core principle that underpins all AP delivery at Oak Activities.
· Support staff training on planning emotional literacy curriculum, developing SMART targets, supervision and support practices.
· Contribute to audits and evaluations of emotional literacy provision, identifying strengths, gaps, and areas for development.
· Provide guidance and reflective practice opportunities to staff to strengthen emotional literacy approaches with pupils.
Key Outcomes
· Staff feel supported, valued, and equipped to manage challenges.
· Improved individual and team resilience, wellbeing, and retention.
· Strengthened reflective practice across the organisation
· Contribution to a positive workplace culture that prioritises staff care.
You may be expected to carry out other duties commensurate with the post as directed by the Business Development and Compliance Director.
Person Specification
Qualifications
· Degree in psychology, counselling, social work, education, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience - Essential
· Training in supervision, coaching, or reflective practice - Essential
· Formal qualification in clinical supervision or reflective supervision - Desirable
· Additional training in staff wellbeing, trauma-informed practice, or mental health first aid - Desirable
· Providing individual and/or group supervision, coaching, or mentoring - Essential
· Supporting staff wellbeing in high-stress or emotionally demanding environments - Essential
· Demonstrated ability to apply resilience and reflective practice models in supervision - Essential
· Delivering training or workshops on resilience, wellbeing, or reflective practice - Desirable
· Working within health, social care, education, or other-high pressure sectors - Desirable
· Monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on supervision outcomes - Desirable
Knowledge and skills
· Strong understanding of supervision theory and reflective practice frameworks - Essential
· Awareness of workplace stressors, burnout, and strategies for prevention - Essential
· Understanding or confidentiality, safeguarding, and professional boundaries in supervision - Essential
· Understanding of statutory safeguarding requirements, safer working practice, and escalation procedures - Essential
· Excellent listening, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills - Essential
· Ability to create psychologically safe, supportive, and non-judgmental spaces - Essential
· Strong organisational skills with attention to confidentiality and accurate record keeping - Essential
· Capacity to model resilience, adaptability, positive coping strategies, and professional boundaries - Essential
· Familiarity with organisational wellbeing strategies and systemic resilience approaches - Desirable
· Awareness of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the context of supervision - Desirable
· Strong presentation and training delivery skills - Desirable
· Ability to analyse supervision themes and contribute to organisational learning - Desirable
Personal attributes
· Empathetic and supportive approach - Essential
· Reflective, self-aware, and open to feedback - Essential
· Commitment to professional growth and continuous learning - Essential
· Alignment with organisational values, including wellbeing, collaboration, safeguarding, and inclusion - Essential
Benefits
As a valued employee of Oak Activities, you will receive:
· Training and development opportunities
· Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
· Independent mortgage advice
· Generous bonus schemes such as performance-linked and refer a friend.
· Death in Service
Further Information
Oak Activities does not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
All applicants should be aware that they must undergo child protection screening appropriate for each job role. It's an offence for any organisation to offer employment that involves regular contact with young people under the age of 18 to anyone who has been convicted of certain specified offences, or those who are included on lists considered unsuitable for such work held by the Department of Education.
It is also an offence for people convicted of such offences to apply for work with young people. If you are successful throughout your application, you will be subject to satisfactory completion of an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed. Further information about the Disclosure and Barring Service can be found at
Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Oak Activities employees are expected to abide by the Company's safeguarding policy, code of conduct, and will attend Safeguarding training.
Oak Activities reserves the right to invite successful candidates to interview prior to the closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested candidates to submit their applications without delay.
The closing date for applications is 19th August 2025.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Cycle to work scheme
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Referral programme
Work Location: In person