Senior Wellbeing Worker - London, United Kingdom - Together For Mental Wellbeing

Together For Mental Wellbeing

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Senior Wellbeing Worker

Service:
PCN project

Location:
Southwark

Salary:
£26, this position is available on a fixed term contract until the 31st March 2024. We have 2 positions available - 1 position for 37,5 hours and 1 position for 30 hours

Reporting to:
Deputy Manager

About the service

The Southwark Neighbourhood Mental Health Support Project will help manage the high volume of patients with low to medium level mental health needs who could be supported by a non-clinical member of staff.

Mental Health Wellbeing Workers will be working in the community across the North and South Southwark neighbourhoods.

The Southwark Neighbourhood Mental Health Support Project compliments the newly developed community roles of Link Workers and Social Prescribers. Our Mental Health Wellbeing Workers will meet with residents in community locations, including coffee shops, libraries in Southwark.

Support provided will take a one to one person-centred non-clinical approach offering a goal oriented practical and emotional form of intervention to allow the client to build self-confidence and self-agency.

Our staff will provide support to access services in the community multiple times to allow for increased social engagement and building self-confidence providing up to 12 weeks of in-person, telephone or online support.

Job Purpose

You'll outreach-actively go out visiting-with people across our communities in Southwark, providing them support with their mental health issues, and helping them to improve their social, mental and physical wellbeing by also tackling problems like debt and housing that may be affecting their mental wellbeing.

You'll provide them with tools and work with them to develop strategies to maintain their own mental health and wellbeing in the long term.

This will keep people healthy and reduce the chances of them becoming ill and needing treatment from their GP or needing to be admitted to hospital in an emergency.

Location

You will work closely with each GP practice in your Southwark neighbourhood, building robust working relationships with everyone you meet, in particular the Social Prescribing Link Workers (SPLWs) attached to practices.

The Social Prescriber teams support residents, understanding what matters to them, advocate for and connect them to services for on-going practical, social and emotional support.

They provide support for a range of issues including mental health, social isolation, housing, employment.

In addition to working at GP practices, you will be required to provide support to them at the Southwark Wellbeing Hub premises, community spaces, such as coffee shops, libraries, faith centres or in people's own homes.

Sometimes you will be expected to provide support by phone or online via your laptops, to suit the people you support.

Duties and Responsibilities

You'll provide tailored timelimited support to individuals, their families and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing, live independently and improve their health.
You'll have a caseload of clients, supporting them to achieve their health and wellbeing goals, for example get fit classes, joining a choir or taking up a hobby, and tackle issues like debt and housing problems that affect people's health and wellbeing.
You'll establish trusting relationships through a personcentred non clinical approach with clients to increase their hopes, motivation and ambition, and help them to set and achieve their goals for improved wellbeing.
You'll value the lived experience of your clients and enable them to use it to support themselves
You'll reach out to people in the community who are most in need of support and at risk of being excluded or isolated, to tackle the health inequalities that affect them. (Examples include people from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people who may be struggling to manage their mental wellbeing and finding it difficult to access support for themselves).
You'll work actively with local services to understand what is available to support people's mental health and wellbeing and use this information to support Southwark residents.
You'll help patients to understand how local mental health and care services work and help them to access these services. Your own experience and knowledge of services could come in handy when supporting them.
You'll make referrals to our local services, centres and groups, building strong relationships with everyone who might help improve the lives of the people you serve.
You'll actively support people as they begin to engage with the services you refer them to, so they don't fall out of support.
You'll maintain professional boundaries at all times when working with clients in your caseload.
You'll maintain the confidentiality of service users you work with at all times
You'll work within the p