Community Health and Well-being Worker

3 months ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Hedena Health (Bury Knowle Health Centre) Full time

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to shape a new part time job role?

Do you enjoy working with a wide range of people within your community?

Could you support members of your local community to improve their health and wellbeing?

We are looking for 2 people to take on Community Health and Wellbeing Worker (CHWW)/Health and Wellbeing Coach roles. These are new roles within Wood Farm and offers flexible, part-time hours, the ability to organise your own workload, with some evening and weekend hours required. You will be based at Hedena Health, a GP practice in Headington, but will work across our OX3+ Primary Care Network.

As a CHWW, you will be in a patient-facing role engaging with members of the Wood Farm community to identify ways to improve the health and wellbeing of the young, old and their families, connecting them to access appropriate support and community resources. This role bridges health and social services and the community. CHWW are passionate role models who will provide advice and signposting to everyone within their communities, enabling them to make positive choices around health and well-being. You’ll meet people face to face, helping them to find local health services, offering to help them make appointments or signpost them to local services to support their needs.

Alongside participating in evaluation activities within a project team, you will play a significant role in increasing health promotion and wellbeing, through a range of activities including: Outreach assessments, Signposting, Education, Group/Community events.

Are you that person that is ready to make a difference? If this sounds like the challenge for you, we would love to hear from you.

Don’t worry about having previous NHS experience, full training will be provided, as you help us to deliver support to the local communities in Wood Farm.

Hours: Up to 24 hours per week / Salary: £22,383 (pro rata’d)

**Responsibility**: We are looking for a Community Health and Wellbeing Worker to join our team and work to support our patients in the Wood Farm community. We want you to work in the heart of our Wood Farm community and help improve the health and wellbeing of the young, the old and their families.

Community Health and Wellbeing Workers are passionate role models and provide advice and signposting to everyone within their communities, enabling them to make positive choices around health and wellbeing. You’ll meet people face to face, providing support and advice to those that need it. You’ll help people find local health services, offering to help them make appointments or sign post them to local services to support their needs. You’ll also serve as a link between health, social services, and our community to ensure all households receive the best possible care and service. The role involves working very closely with the practices and the multidisciplinary team
(MDT) within the OX3+ PCN (Hedena Health & Manor Surgery).

**Hours of work**:20-24hrs per week

**Salary**:£22,383 (pro rata)

**Job Summary**:
Community Health and Wellbeing Workers are local people who care about the health of their community and those around them. As a Community Health and Wellbeing Worker (CHWW) you will be a frontline primary care and public health worker employed from the local community. The outreach work of a CHWW is essential in addressing the rising inequities in health and social care and in identifying unmet need in the community. The CHWW performs a variety of duties with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve. They play a significant role in increasing health promotion, through a range of activities including outreach assessments, raising awareness, community education, signposting, informal counselling, and support. Their bridging role between health and social services and the community, will help remove barriers to people accessing the support and services that meet the needs of the local community. Community
Health Workers are positive role models and provide advice and signposting to people living in their own communities, to enable them to make positive choices around health and wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a new job role new to the UK.

**Key Duties & Responsibilities**:
Monthly household visits (or more frequent if the household need requires it) within a defined geographical area in Wood Farm (up to a maximum of 120 households) to assess the health and social needs of everyone within a household, adopting a proactive and holistic approach when supporting the local Wood Farm community.

Community Health Workers will:
▪ Make contact with each household in a defined area on a regular basis, face to face or virtually as appropriate, listening and discussing health needs on each visit.
▪ Identify vulnerable households or individuals in conjunction with health care teams.
▪ Identify health and/or social care needs in conjunction with hea

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