Heritage Link Worker

The Restoration Trust has a grant from Historic England to pilot a Heritage Link Worker role, helping to connect people referred via social prescribing to heritage activities to support their mental health and wellbeing.

Fixed term 1 Year (4 days a week) with the possibility of extension.

This role involves connecting people with heritage activities in Great Yarmouth and Waveney, so that we can support people living with mental health problems by encouraging their participation in heritage.

Job Activities and Responsibilities:

- Coordinate Our Heritage groups in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Lowestoft.
- Work across Great Yarmouth Borough Council and East Suffolk Council areas, including in the Heritage Action Zones in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft.
- Provide dedicated time to referrals, sharing information with other Link Workers, linking referrals to heritage activities and assisting sustained contact between referrals and these activities.
- Connect with primary care, wellbeing and social prescribing networks, as part of the wider multi-disciplinary structure within the locality, encouraging partnerships to develop new heritage-related opportunities.
- Connect and build on relationships with heritage organisations such as Historic England, other heritage agencies and local museums, archaeology and archives services.
- Collaborate with participants to create a programme of heritage experiences.
- Gather data for Evaluation, assist in active learning and assessing the impact of the project on people who have used the service (following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018)
- Contribute to reports and documents created by the project, including to Historic England, as part of Evaluation, and developing guidance on heritage engagement for social prescribing.

Job Requirements
- A keen desire to support people who are dealing with mental health issues.
- Experience of using your initiative to support people in community, health, social care, arts & culture or information and advice settings.
- A sound knowledge of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Area and of local heritage; it would be preferable to be located in Great Yarmouth or Lowestoft, but not imperative.
- An interest in widening participation in heritage.
- Ability to work flexibly from home and in other locations.
- Ability to learn quickly, understand the demands and priorities of your role.
- Excellent people skills and the ability to quickly connect with others.
- Good IT and communications skills
- Creative and/or heritage skills and knowledge.
- Good organisational skills.

**RECRUITMENT PROCESS**

Interviews online Wednesday 15th February 2023.

Heritage Link Worker in post from March 2023 (date to be confirmed)

**About us**

The Restoration Trust is an inclusion charity that was founded in 2015. We use heritage and creativity to improve people’s mental health without relying on services. Collaborating with partners from heritage, health, community, creativity, and academia, our co-created projects shift understanding about using cultural assets for health.

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £23,640.00 per year

COVID-19 considerations:
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Interviews online Friday 18th February.
Heritage Link Worker in post before Friday 1st April.

Work Location: Hybrid remote in CROMER

Application deadline: 15/02/2023
Expected start date: 01/03/2023