Fort House Surgery are looking for a dedicated and caring person to work as a wellbeing advisor. The role will be surgery based, working alongside the clinical and administrative team, delivering face to face, telephone and group consultations to patients who would benefit from a holistic review of their needs.
The job will be for 15 hours per week worked over 2/3 days.
Purpose of the role:
Wellbeing advisors empower people to take control of their health and wellbeing through support and appropriate referrals.
They give people time to focus on 'what matters to me' and take a holistic approach to an individual's health and wellbeing.
Wellbeing advisors:
Take a whole population approach, working with a range of people who may benefit from social prescribing, including people who are lonely, have complex social needs, low level mental health needs and long-term conditions
Help people to identify issues that affect their health & wellbeing, and co-produce a simple personalised care and support plan
Support people by connecting them to non-medical, community-based activities, groups and services that meet their practical, social and emotional needs, including specialist advice services and arts and culture, physical activity, and nature and green based activities
Use coaching and motivational interviewing techniques to support people to take control of their own health and wellbeing
Support development of accessible and sustainable community offers by working in partnership with local authorities and others to identify gaps in provision and take a community development approach to enabling growth in community activities and groups.
Key responsibilities:
Take referrals from the clinical team and through patient self-referrals.
Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to access community-based activities and support that can help them to take control of their health and wellbeing through co-producing a simple personalised care and support plan and introducing people to appropriate activities, groups and services as described above
Work with line manager to prioritise your own caseload, in accordance with needs, priorities and support required by individuals. Refer people back to other health professionals/agencies, as appropriate or necessary.
Build ongoing relationships with local infrastructure organisations, community activities and support services to increase knowledge of the community support offer and work collaboratively to develop effective partnership working to support the community offer to be sustainable, identifying gaps in provision, nurturing community assets and sharing intelligence on gaps or problems with commissioners and local authorities.
Support the surgery's patients by implementing, running and developing varying support groups covering key areas such as carers.
Maintain and regularly communicate with the surgery's carers list.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Expected hours: 15 per week
Benefits:
* Company pension
* On-site parking
* Sick pay
Work Location: In person