Healthy Futures - Belfast, United Kingdom - Bryson Charitable Group

Bryson Charitable Group

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Belfast, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Bryson Care Healthy Futures

JOB TITLE:
Healthy Futures Cookery Mentor

RESPONSIBLE TO:

PROJECT MANAGER

LOCATION:
BELFAST/LISBURN/NEWTOWNABBEY

MAIN TASK

Bryson Care's 'Healthy Futures' Home and Community Based Service aims to increase the skills of parents/caregivers and individuals to enable healthier lifestyles.

The main aim is to support and enable mentoring of new skills for up to 6 weeks, to enhance a healthier future.

Our focus is to work with parents/caregivers and individuals to overcome the stresses that are impacting daily and affecting their ability to create new approaches in their lives, intervention will be up to 6 weeks.

The support will be delivered in relation to nutrition, cooking, healthy lunch boxes or crisis intervention to address other areas that the parent/caregiver/individual may have raised that is causing stress.

Parents/Caregivers/Individuals

Develop a positive relationship with Service Users which promotes confidence and builds self esteem
Discuss the stresses that the service user is experiencing
Discuss the impact of the stresses that the service user is experiencing and offer appropriate guidance
Establish a plan in partnership with service user as to what changes need to be made and how these changes will be achieved
Encourage social contact to decrease social isolation (i.e., appointment keeping, community events etc)
Discuss any external barriers which, may be impacting on the service user's life and offer appropriate support by accompanying or signposting to other local community resources and services