Wellbeing Specialist

WE’RE HIRING AND OFFERING A $1,000.00 SIGN ON BONUS FOR JOINING OUR TEAM! We are a family-owned company that is looking for you to play a key role in providing services and fresh food solutions for the foodservice and retail industries. Sandridge needs your passion and skill to deliver on our promise to always provide great tasting fresh food with consistent hand-made quality that enhances the reputation of our customers   Join our team of food innovators and technicians to produce fresh, delicious food that will make it to tables across the country. Take pride in knowing that your hard work makes a difference in the lives of our customers and consumers.

Position Summary:

The Wellbeing Specialist is responsible for all aspects of planning, development, implementation, and monitoring of Sandridge total wellbeing initiatives. The position requires significant creativity and research skills to design program offerings, marketing and communication skills to promote it, and the care and compassion to engage continuously with Sandridge employees to drive utilization and successful outcomes.

Key Specific Responsibilities:

Develop programs that create awareness, motivation and provide tools to employees that help them adapt and maintain a well-rounded healthy lifestyle.

Foster an overall culture of wellbeing awareness, educate and counsel leadership across the company to help identify employees potentially in need of a referral for support and/or services.

Engage daily with employees in common areas, production areas and offices to promote wellbeing programs as well as identify opportunities to connect employees with resources.

Develop wellbeing and health awareness initiatives (e.g., electronic bulletin boards, digital, video communication), educational campaigns (e.g., lunch and learns, video messaging, newsletters), behavior change programs, and community and other resource referrals.    

Coordinate and deliver wellbeing and resilience programming on healthy lifestyles that includes wellbeing and work/life balance messaging and education.

Encourage wellbeing and resilience program buy-in and support throughout all levels of the organization.

Develop and maintain a comprehensive directory of referral services and resources for employees to include counseling through Employee Assistance Program and other resources.   

Create awareness and visibility for wellbeing and resilience through effectively promoting programs/ interventions designed for target populations with specific concerns or health conditions.      

Perform research on relevant topics in wellbeing promotion and lifestyle and behavior change.

Collect, evaluate and report data on the effectiveness of wellbeing and resilience initiatives.

Identify appropriate evidence-based strategies, preventive health guidelines, and educational materials from credible sources to incorporate into programming.

Work collaboratively with HR business partners and production managers to ensure timely resolutions to inquiries from production team members on all shifts.

Position Competencies:

• Extreme confidentiality
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Friendly and welcoming personality
• Positive attitude
• Knowledge and support of the value of wellbeing
• Strong Microsoft Office Suite experience
• Organized, punctual, pays attention to detail

Essential Functions:

Ability to work in fluctuating temperature environments of refrigeration and non-refrigeration

• • Refrigerated Temperatures are as follows:
    • Process rooms: 40 to 55 F
    • Coolers:  32 to 40 F
    • Freezers: -20 to 32 F
    • Blast Freezers: -15 to 0 F
  • Non-Refrigerated Room Temperatures
    • 55 to 85 F or more

Ability to lift or move various products and or items ranging in weight from 25 to 50 pounds.

Exemplify the Company’s Core Values with each day’s activities throughout all shifts.

Follow all procedures/policies   

Follow all PPE rules                              

Follow all safety rules

Follow all GMP’s

Team Player

Ability to flex schedule to accommodate needs of the business

Report Conflict to appropriate party

Qualifications for Position:

Bachelor’s degree in an applicable field such as health education, health promotion, social work, public health, or a related field- strongly preferred.

Minimum of three or more years’ experience providing health and wellbeing and resilience services to varied populations- strongly preferred.

Experience developing and implementing workplace wellbeing, support, resilience strategies, health education presentations, and engagement solutions- strongly preferred.

Background or fundamental knowledge of the healthcare industry and health insurance principles and products preferred

Ability to work with diverse group of employees and have compassion—required.

Sandridge Foods is located in Medina, Ohio and is a great place to work because we sincerely care about every employee, both personally and professionally. We strive to balance the demands of work and home for our employees.