EWS Adult Wellbeing Practitioner | Provide CIC
| Posting date: | 02 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,071 - £25,674 Per annum, Pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 November 2024 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 9YQ |
| Company: | Provide CIC |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6689956/828-PROVIDE3132-A |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for 2 motivated, enthusiastic individuals to work within Essex Wellbeing Service delivering advice and support to those wanting to stop smoking. One position will be working within the Social Housing sector and one will be working with Mental Health inpatients. Both roles cover Essex and will involve working with other agencies and services.
Internal applicants will be considered for a secondment opportunity.
We promote a range of different methods of supporting people which includes virtual interventions, telephone support and social media as well as face to face work.
The postholder will be based at home but is required to travel to the areas covered by the locality team in North, West, Mid and South Essex.
The postholder will be required to work as part of a locality-based team providing support and intervention to adults looking to make changes to their health and wellbeing.
You will work with the local community and develop a good knowledge of services and organisations within the community who can also support with health and wellbeing.
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision:Transforming Lives
Values:Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission:An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Eligible for NHS Pension
• To engage with individuals in the community and improve their lifestyle and self-management capacity by activating their assets:• Apply behaviour change techniques to support complex individual lifestyle changes, e.g goals setting, confidence building
• Provide evidence based about a key public health agenda
• Social prescribe to other service that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions.
• To manage own workload efficiently
• Contribute to and work as part of a team.
• To support existing services and develop new local approaches to meet the needs of client in the target group
• To undertake basic clinical interventions such as blood pressure
• Provide support to volunteers and other community partners where directed
• Participate in MDTs with partner organisations
• Undertake any other delegated work
• Any other function commensurate with competencies and job role
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Oct 2024
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