Wellbeing Worker: Primary Care - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxfordshire Mind

Oxfordshire Mind

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Oxford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

**WELLBEING WORKER: PRIMARY CARE

Hours: 37 Hours Per Week (Required to work 11:30am-7:30pm every other Monday)

Salary:
£25,000-£26,906 Salary dependent on skills, experience and knowledge.

Contract:
Permanent

Base:
GP practices in Faringdon and Botley, with some home working.

Who we are, and what we do

We're Oxfordshire Mind, the mental health charity, operating across Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
Our passionate employees and dedicated volunteers are helping people with mental health issues find somewhere to turn for advice, information, and support.
We won't give up until everyone experiencing a mental health issue gets both support and respect.

Why work for us?

We offer a friendly working environment and are committed to staff wellbeing.
We are devoted to equity, diversity, inclusion, and equality, with staff working groups and support groups.

Here is a taste of what we offer:

Generous holiday allowance, 28 days plus 8 bank holidays, increasing after 5 years
Contribute to pension scheme
Flexible working including; hybrid working, part time, compressed hours
Ensuring growth and development of our staff along their career journey
Free support package from Health Assured for you and your family
Great discounts and cash back card schemes

What will you do?

Primary Care Wellbeing Workers take a person-centred approach in the delivery of 1-to-1 sessions for people who are experiencing mental health issues or other social or lifestyle issues that are impacting on their wellbeing.

The support provided aims to encourage and enable people to link in with existing support services, use the support available in their local community, and develop tools to increase their ability to manage their own wellbeing.

The service offered is based on a social prescribing model and the role works very closely with Primary Care as an embedded worker within GP Practices.

Specific teams/roles may also make specific mention of:

Triage work
Community Alliance facilitation
Outcomes work.

Wokingham service users are 18+; all other teams it's 16+

Key responsibilities

Support service users to improve or maintain their mental health and wellbeing
Collect and accurately record service user data onto a secure database in a timely manner.
Liaising with colleagues, partner organisations and professional agencies to support service user needs.
Keep up to date with the various services offered by NHS and third sector providers to enable appropriate information and signposting.
Conduct regular dynamic risk assessment and take appropriate and timely actions to manage the risks in relation to staff, service users and buildings.
Receiving and responding to referrals from a variety of sources (e.g. GPs, community organisations, selfreferrals) and ensuring people receive an excellent personcentred service via an initial assessment and followup sessions as required.
Working collaboratively with primary care staff and external agencies, promoting the service to ensure it is wellunderstood and easily accessible and contributing to efforts to benefit local mental health and wellbeing.
Tailored signposting and use of support tools and techniques to work productively with service users towards their own hopes and goals.

We expect all our employees to:

Understand and implement all safeguarding policies and procedures in relation to working with children, young people and adults at risk of harm
Enhance equity, diversity, inclusion and equality within our work
Involve people with lived experience of mental health problems in every aspect of our work
Support and supervise volunteers and peer supporters as agreed with your line manager
Attend regular meetings and supervision as required

This is not an exhaustive list and employees may be required to perform activities not listed here.

Who you are
Open -
Are you open to help people realise their potential?
Together, partnership -
Are you a team player?
Responsive -
Are you a good listener?
Independent -
Do you have the confidence to speak out fearlessly?
Unstoppable -
Do you have a positive, never give up attitude?
If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you

Applicants should respond explicitly to each of the points listed in the Person Specification / Selection Criteria below. The shortlisting panel make their decisions based on this information and no assumptions about your skills or experience will be made.

Essential Experience
a) Knowledge and understanding of mental health issues, and the needs of people living with mental health problems

b) An understanding of good practice in safeguarding Children and Adults

c) Experience of working within mental health, wellbeing or similar environments

d) Experience of working in a demanding environment

e) Experience of working as part of a team and communicating effectively

f) Experience of working