Wellbeing Worker

**Job Title**:Wellbeing Worker **(Female) x1**

**Salary**:£23,194 pro-rata

**Hours**:28 hours per week (12-month fixed term contract)

**Employed by**:Roshni Ghar

**Responsible to**:Service Manager

**Location**:Roshni Ghar

**Closing Date**:4pm, 4th August 2023

**Interview date**: TBC

**Disclosure**:The successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (Working with Vulnerable Adults and children)

**Exemption**:We are claiming an exemption in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.

**Background info**:
Roshni Ghar provides culturally appropriate mental health & wellbeing support to predominately south Asian women and girls in the Airedale area of Bradford Metropolitan District.

We utilise a service user informed approach that promotes recovery, well-being through participation, inclusion and choice. We help to tackle inequalities and promote equality and diversity in partner organisations.

We strive to continuously adapt and improve services to ensure they continue to meet the needs of the community served.

**Our core services include**:
We provide culturally and spiritually sensitive support for South Asian women experiencing mental and emotional distress, empowering them to engage more responsively with mainstream and other relevant services where they may experience barriers. We do this through 1:1 key working, group work and peer group support. Promoting a better understanding of mental distress, mental health promotion and illness prevention, signposting and working with other services to promote the equality and diversity agenda.

We encourage social inclusion and promote access to educational and vocational opportunities by providing a safe space for women to explore issues relevant to their mental health and well-being.

**Please Note**:
The following information is furnished to assist staff joining Roshni Ghar to understand and appreciate the work content of their post and the role they are to play in the organisation. However, the following points should be noted.

**Prime objective of the post.**
- The Wellbeing Worker’s role is to help and support women from the South Asian community who are experiencing mental ill health, or at risk of developing mental illness.
- To offer emotional and wellbeing support programs to South Asian women experiencing mental ill health, in and around Keighley. To plan and co-ordinate a range of therapeutic activities for service users at Roshni Ghar and in community settings.
- To offer 1:1 and group support to service users as part of the mental health recovery.
- To deliver mental health and wellbeing awareness sessions using a holistic approach to women from the south Asian community who are experiencing mental ill health, or at risk of developing mental illness.
- diagnosed with mental ill health.
- To plan, co-ordinate and deliver mental health & wellbeing support at Roshni and in other community settings across Keighley.
- To work in ways to promote the inclusion and participation of service users in the various groups and sessions held at Roshni Ghar.
- To promote and enhance the quality-of-service provision for women who access support from Roshni Ghar
- Make links with and develop partnerships with other organisations that offer appropriate cultural and spiritual support services to South Asian women.
- Encourage and foster greater involvement of women from the South Asian community living with mental distress in the planning, development and strategic forums thus contributing to creation of appropriate services.
- Develop inter-agencies relationships between established local statutory, community and voluntary sector organisations to look at ways of supporting individuals living with mental ill health; and to help improve health and social well-being of women from the South Asian community living with mental ill health.

**Knowledge/Experience**:

- Good understanding of symptoms of mental illness and awareness of appropriate therapeutic approaches available
- Awareness of specific health issues affecting south Asian women
- Awareness of boundaries applied to working with south Asian women
- Familiar with safeguarding protocols and legislation and understand the importance of keeping women safe. Report any safeguarding issues to the Manager.
- carry out outreach work whenever necessary. And to be available to work flexible hours as and when required, including occasional weekends and evenings.
- Promote positive mental health & wellbeing
- Highlight issue of - and links between poverty and poor health
- Good understanding of acute, primary, secondary and social care health services
- Knowledge of local statutory and voluntary sector service provision
- Knowledge of the local area and the needs of the local population.
- Knowledge and awareness of contributing factors of mental ill health
- Knowledge of the mental health recovery model and self-care pathways

**Supervisory/Managerial Re