Engagement Lead

Who we’re looking for

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding and driven Staff Engagement Lead to join our Central People and Wellbeing Team.

This is a strategic and values-led role, focused on enhancing the lived experience of colleagues across the Trust. Working collaboratively with school leaders, wellbeing champions and Star Central teams, you will lead the development and delivery of wellbeing, engagement and people-experience initiatives that support a healthy, inclusive and high-performing workforce.

You will play a central role in shaping and embedding trust-wide wellbeing and people-experience strategies, ensuring wellbeing is proactively integrated into organisational culture, leadership practice and ways of working.

You will be supported in a highly motivated team environment that is focused on development, wellbeing and continuous improvement.

The role is based at Star Central, Blackburn. We are currently operating hybrid office and homeworking arrangements. You will be expected to travel to schools across the Trust as required.

You will have:

• A degree level qualification and be CIPD qualified (or willingness to work towards).
• Experience of leading and delivering wellbeing, engagement or people-experience initiative.
• A strong understanding of workplace wellbeing, organisational culture and employee engagement.
• Experience of using workforce data insights to identify risks and inform targeted actions.
• Experience of working collaboratively with senior leaders and a wide range of stakeholders.
• The ability to design, implement and evaluate trust-wide initiatives and programmes.
• Strong planning, organisational and people management skills.