Job summary
Employer heading
Working Well Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 3
Job overview
Working Well is commissioned by Essex County Council and sits within the Essex Wellbeing Service. This fast paced, innovative programme that supports the national and local agenda around workplace health, wellbeing and inequalities, ensuring that the Essex workforce is healthy and productive.
The role involves delivering a range of health initiatives as part of an outreach programme across Essex, including: Stop Smoking Support and training, NHS Health Checks and lifestyle management.
Main duties of the job
The role involves delivering a range of health initiatives as part of a new outreach programme across Essex.
Working for our organisation
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+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Apply behaviour change techniques to support routine individual lifestyle changes, e.g. goals setting
· Provide evidence based information about a range of health issues such as smoking, alcohol, mental health, healthy eating and physical activity
· Social prescribe to other service that will enhance and sustain the outcome of the interventions.
· To work autonomously on non complex cases and in partnership with the Workplace Health Outreach Coordinator for complex cases
· To support asset mapping within the community
· To manage caseloads efficiently
· To undertake basic clinical interventions: blood pressure, BMI
· Provide Smoking Support and training for workplaces
· Contribute to and work as works as part of a team.
· To follow up client during and after completion of their lifestyle change intervention and discuss further steps.
· Undertake any other delegated work
· Any other function commensurate with competencies and job role
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3
Desirable criteria
- Level 2 Health Trainer Qualification - Understanding Health Improvement (Royal Institute of Public Health)
Work Related Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Health and social care or Equivalent training and experience in health care setting
- Level 2 Stop Smoking Cessation
- NHS Health Check training or willingness to learn
Personal Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Car owner – must be able to travel to various areas of Essex as part of the job role. Be willing to drive a Provide CIC outreach vehicle
- Flexible working – which will include evenings and weekends Willingness to work throughout all areas covered within Esse
Skills and Apptitude
Essential criteria
- Experience of using a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office and Systmone
- Knowledge and expertise to apply of behaviour change methods
- Well organised and ability to prioritise workload and work unsupervised
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake further training as appropriate
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lyn Mowforth
- Job title
- Essex Working Well Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07580 913869
- Additional information
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