About the Role
Balfour Beatty seeks a Health & Wellbeing Advisor for the Highways team to support the rollout of health and wellbeing across all highway projects in line with our central strategy. The Advisor will provide specialist advice, insight, and initiatives that strengthen workforce wellbeing, reduce health risks arising from operational activities, and ensure the organisation meets its legal and moral obligations regarding health, safety and wellbeing.
Responsibilities
* Support the Central Health Team to ensure timely delivery of health surveillance, safety‑critical medicals, fitness‑for‑work assessments and follow‑up management recommendations.
* Analyse OH data and trends (e.g., HAVS, noise exposure, MSK injuries, fatigue, sickness absence) to identify root causes and support operational leaders in implementing improvements to reduce risk.
* Implement and maintain a Highways Wellbeing Strategy aligned to organisational priorities (mental health, fatigue, physical wellbeing, financial wellbeing, psychosocial safety) and Group strategy.
* Lead campaigns and initiatives focused on core industry health risks such as fatigue, stress, MSK, physical health risks and address factors like sleep health, hydration, nutrition and mental health stigma reduction.
* Drive integration of health and wellbeing considerations into RAMS, induction, daily briefings and leadership engagements.
* Act as a trusted point of contact for workers needing wellbeing support and signpost them appropriately to internal or external support services.
* Work with supply chain partners to ensure consistent health and wellbeing standards across all contractors and subcontractors.
* Produce actionable insights and recommendations for senior leaders, SHELT, project managers and the client.
* Track performance of wellbeing initiatives to demonstrate measurable impact.
* Support leaders and supervisors to champion wellbeing in daily operations and promote psychologically safe working environments.
* Develop and deliver wellbeing‑related training (e.g., fatigue awareness, stress management, healthier working practices, mental health literacy).
* Promote adoption of national best practice, including National Highways’ Raising the Bar guidance for health & wellbeing.
* Liaise with HR, OH and HS&W to coordinate post‑incident support plans, including referrals and follow‑up care.
Qualifications
* Approachable and trustworthy, able to build rapport with site‑based teams and become a safe point of contact for wellbeing concerns.
* Calm and confident communicator, able to engage with frontline operatives, supervisors and senior leaders with equal ease.
* Proactive and solution‑focused, anticipating wellbeing issues and taking early action rather than reacting after events.
* Strong influencing skills, able to promote positive wellbeing behaviours and challenge constructively when needed.
* Resilient under pressure, remaining steady while dealing with sensitive issues, critical incidents or high‑risk environments.
* Experience delivering health, wellbeing or occupational health support in construction, highways, utilities or similarly safety‑critical environments.
* Experience with health surveillance, safety‑critical medical processes and working with OH providers.
* Experience interpreting and acting on health‑related data (e.g., HAVS reports, sickness absence trends, fatigue indicators, or health surveillance results).
* Demonstrated ability to run wellbeing campaigns, toolbox talks and workforce engagement sessions.
* Experience conducting regular site visits and understanding the realities of operational work environments.
Benefits
* Smart working, with staggered start and finish times and up to 40 % remote working where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro‑rata).
* Family‑friendly policies, including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.
Why Work for Us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Legal and Equality
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more information on our commitment, see https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/. We are also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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