Community Wellness Worker
| Posting date: | 01 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,200.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29200.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2025 |
| Location: | Tamworth, B77 2ED |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | A4179-25-0000 |
Summary
Key Duties Work with an identified group of individuals and their households to provide personalised support to address the causes their poor health and wellbeing and identify what matters to them. Take a holistic whole person approach in relation to physical, mental, emotional and social health and wellbeing and resilience. Use a range of methods to develop our patients knowledge, skills and confidence to tackle their own problems and challenges affecting their health and wellbeing. Work alongside people as equal partners, actively listen to what matters to them, build trust and rapport to help them to recognise what they need, and connect them with the best available support or intervention to meet their need. Help people to identify barriers preventing them from accessing local resources or existing services appropriately. Identify health and well-being needs through various methods, including home visits, community outreach, and data analysis. Understand the local and accessible services and resources available and signpost to services in the community to support peoples/families health and wellbeing needs. Identify gaps in available services and resources preventing individuals and communities from achieving optimal health and wellbeing. Build relationships with local organisations and groups. Manage data and information and maintain accurate records of client interactions, progress, and referrals. In your daily work, you will interact with: individual people and their families/households on a one-to-one basis and people in groups. community-based organisations and service providers (including voluntary or charity-based providers). NHS and local authority health and care professionals, individually and in teams. Lay and professional workers from other sectors, including people representatives such as faith leaders or parish and ward councillors, as well as organisations such as Healthwatch. peers (paid and voluntary) in their own or other organisations. other workers (paid and voluntary) who they may supervise. local health and wellbeing services, such as lifestyle support services, IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). sources of digital help and support, including those supporting mental and emotional health and wellbeing. the private sector, e.g. retail firms, local businesses.