Emotional and Wellbeing Worker

**Position Title: Emotional and Wellbeing Worker**

**Location: Coalville and Loughborough**

**Hours of duty: 26 hours per week**

**Rate of Pay: £11.95 per hour**

**Contract type: Fixed Term Contract Until 31/03/24 with possible extension**

**About us**:
Falcon Support Services provides supported accommodation and community projects to those that are **homeless, at risk of homelessness, or vulnerable in the community**.

Our service helps vulnerable people by providing safe and secure accommodation with our staff working alongside clients to help them develop their skills, so they can move away from homelessness to living independently and positively contribute to their community.

**Role Purpose**:
Supporting service users that are homeless/at risk of homelessness, living in supported accommodation and/or socially isolated that are experiencing mental health difficulties.

Support will be about supporting those with mental health issues as well as prevention. Support will be delivered either in their own properties, our supported accommodation services or through our community services.

The workers will work with service users to use their voice and feed into the service encouraging active engagement in development, providing feedback, providing focus groups to hopefully tackle health inequalities. This will generate information from the community about needs in order to further inform

**Main Responsibilities**:

- The workers will meet with service users to complete an assessment of their needs, identify potential pathways to other mental health workers/support groups within the community of health services.
- To provide one to one sessions or group activity sessions if people share common interests.
- To listen, advise and support vulnerable members of the community including those that are socially isolated, living in poverty or homeless
- Signpost and refer appropriately, assisting with access to local services including, but not limited to:

- Health Centre, GP surgeries, nursing services
- Loughborough Wellbeing Café
- Crisis Cafés
- Mental Health Crisis Team
- Central Access Point
- Let’s Talk Wellbeing Service
- Leicestershire Partnership Trust
- Recreational activities/Sports
- Create and distribute wellbeing care packages that build confidence, resilience and include activities with the person that interest them i.e. arts and crafts, sports, building on their skills.
- To undertake any additional tasks and/or duties as deemed necessary in order to meet the requirements of funders, partner agencies or any other such organisations.

**Administration**
- To effectively use IT systems to maintain precise and accurate documentation of case management services, including client files and entries into the program databases/risk logs
- To complete and provide any documentation, reports, statistics and any other information required by Falcon Support Services and/or any other agency.
- Monitoring and reporting on outcomes as per grant terms and conditions.

**Compliance / Health & Safety**
- To adhere to all of Falcon Support Services values, policies and procedures as well as any specific local procedures.
- Report all incidents of H&S, or any other serious issue, completing an incident report
- Carry out the practical tasks required of the job being continuously aware of any risks presented by the working environment and consistently acting in a way to minimise these risks. Report concerns appropriately, such as adult and child safeguarding issues and substantial risk
- To be alert to the health and wellbeing of all clients, reporting any concerns to the Manager
- All employees are required by Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act to take reasonable care of their own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.

**People**
- To work co-operatively with other members of the team, constructively contributing to team meetings, covering office duty and assisting with the smooth running of the service
- To show willingness to assist and cover for colleagues when they are absent
- Mentor and support students and/or volunteers in the service
- To effectively work with a range of multi-disciplinary partners, support providers and funders in both the statutory and voluntary sector.
- To develop team spirit and co-operative working across all teams, internal and external.

**General**
- To work flexibly to ensure effective service provision.
- To undertake any such additional duties that are reasonably commensurate with the level of this post.
- To undertake/attend any training and/or meetings as required by the job role.
- To promote a positive image of Falcon Support Services, working as part of an integrated team.
- The post holder will be lone working. To use FSS lone working devise “Work Safe”.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list but to indicate the main responsibilities of the post, such additional duties may be under