JOB TITLE: Employee Wellbeing Lead
LOCATION: Stamford Bridge with regular travel to Cobham
CONTRACT: Permanent, Full Time
The Opportunity
In this strategic role, you will lead the development and delivery of the Club’s mental health and wellbeing strategy, working closely with HR, Safeguarding, Health & Safety and senior leaders to embed a consistent, whole-club approach. You will oversee proactive wellbeing support, provide expert guidance to leaders, and shape a club-wide learning framework that strengthens wellbeing awareness and psychologically safe leadership.
Closing date: 21st April
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. In the event that we receive a large number of applications, the position may be filled before the listed closing date. To avoid missing out, please submit your application at your earliest convenience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of the Club’s mental health and wellbeing strategy in partnership with HR, Safeguarding, Health & Safety and senior leaders.
- Oversee proactive wellbeing support to ensure initiatives align with organisational priorities and deliver measurable impact.
- Act as a strategic adviser to senior leaders, providing expert coaching on wellbeing best practice and psychologically safe leadership.
- Shape and manage a club-wide wellbeing learning framework, embedding wellbeing into leadership development and organisational culture.
- Evaluate wellbeing activity and training, using data and insight to drive continuous improvement and inform strategic decision-making.
- Lead the governance and ongoing development of the Mental Health First Aider programme, ensuring high standards of training, support and quality assurance.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven experience of designing and embedding strategy within a complex organisation.
- Strong professional knowledge of mental health, wellbeing and psychologically safe workplaces.
- Track record in service development, programme leadership and delivering change.
- Experience of working with complex or high-risk wellbeing needs.
- Strategic, forward-thinking and innovative.
- High standards of confidentiality, professionalism and information governance.
- Experience of stakeholder engagement, partnership working and co-production.
- Strong written, digital and reporting capability.
- Resilient, adaptable and effective in fast-paced environments.
- Influential advocate for wellbeing at an organisational level.
Our Expectations:
- To embody the club’s BLUE behaviours (Brave, Lead, Unity, Edge) in the approach to work and interaction with others
- To adhere to the club’s policies and procedures, including Health & Safety, Financial Authorisation, Confidentiality and GDPR.
- To act as an ambassador for diversity, equality, and inclusion, and demonstrate a positive commitment by treating others fairly in line with our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy and reporting any acts of discrimination through appropriate channels
- To create a safe environment and act to protect all young people and vulnerable adults that are either in your care or attending club premises, and report any concerns to the Safeguarding Lead
- To report any misconduct or suspected misconduct to the HR Department.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
At Chelsea we recognise that the diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths and we are taking positive action to ensure our existing colleagues and job applicants can fully be themselves and bring their own unique experiences and perspectives to Chelsea FC. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
If you need reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, please reach out to your recruiter, who will be able to advise and support you.
Chelsea FC is fully committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults at risk (vulnerable groups). We therefore require all successful applicants to complete a DBS Check prior to starting employment. Depending on the role, successful applicants may also be required to undergo other child protection screening where appropriate.
