Job Description

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 www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service.

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