Overview
The Adult Wellbeing Services (AWS) are delivered by a partnership between County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust (CDDFT) and the Pioneering Care Partnership (PCP) and includes the Wellbeing for Life (WBFL) Service. WBFL is a commissioned service in County Durham based on the principle of Your Wellbeing, your way. Based on the model of behaviour change, the team encourages people living and working across County Durham to take small steps to better health in a way tailored to suit them.
Responsibilities
The Wellbeing Practitioner, working with the Wellbeing for Life (WBFL) locality team, assigned to a specific Primary care network (PCN) area, will engage and work with a wide range of partners and local voluntary and community groups to develop joint health improvement activities ensuring that specific groups are reached by the service.
The post holder will also carry a caseload of clients aged 16 years and over to facilitate lifestyle and behaviour change, particularly in the areas of weight management, smoking, mental wellbeing and reducing alcohol intake.
The post holder will carry out promotional work to engage people in the service and offer one-to-one and group wellbeing advice and support to clients including signposting them to relevant services within the community (NHS and non NHS).
The post holder will act as an integrated member of a team, demonstrating a flexible approach, to working across the geographical location/patch to ensure the needs of the local community are met.
Working Hours
This role is required to work some evening work and occasional weekends to meet the service needs. The evening work could be up to 2 evenings per week.
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