Wellbeing Champion

**Wellbeing Champions - Ref: SS05823**
- £23,893 - £25,979 per annum (pro rata to hours worked

**What are we looking for?**

As a Family Hub Well-being Outreach Champion, you will predominately work with and support new and expectant parents/carers in promoting good overall emotional health and wellbeing and positive infant/parent relationships as part of the Walsall Family Hub Programme, ensuring parents/carers are supported at the earliest opportunity by the Family Hub team and/or are seamlessly connected to all services available at a community level.

**About the job**
- Promote and support a positive ethos around emotional wellbeing and champion equity as part of the family hub perinatal and parents-infant relationships.
- Support parents and carers to increase their awareness and understanding of emotional wellbeing and perinatal mental health.
- Provide peer support to parents with mild health difficulties via one-to-one support or group support for parents experiencing mild anxiety or low mood which subsequently impacts the parent/infant relationship.
- Deliver evidenced based interventions, both universal and targeted for parents/carers of children 0-5 yrs.
- Ensuring the peer-to-peer support extends to fathers, co-parents and wider carers.
- Provide one to one support, advice, guidance and help to navigate/signpost and secure services that are available within the local communities.
- Work with key stakeholders to promote services available increasing awareness.
- Work creatively with diverse communities, build trusting relationships to support parents.
- Support parents to support each other, overcome difficulties in relationships and build on existing parenting strengths.
- Communicate effectively with parents/carers and the wider Family Hub partners and stakeholders.
- To work alongside and support the Champion Lead to further develop the service area.
- To work alongside the feeding and parent panel Family Hub Team.
- Complete low-level assessments to help deliver intervention and support or signpost to appropriate services.
- To commit to the co-production agenda and to participate in co-production activities.
- To maintain accurate records

If you would like to know more about this role, please contact: Rachael Hemus (Family Wellbeing Coordinator) on 07506076130 or 01922650387

View Job Description & Employee Specification

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The postholder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with vulnerable adults, children and young people.