Community Connector

Job description

**Department: Adults and Health**

**Terms and Conditions: 37 hours per week, Fixed Term until 31st March 2024**

**Interview Date: Monday 22nd May 2023**

Do you want to be part of an exciting work area supporting residents?

Do you want to make a difference to the health of the borough?

If you answered 'yes' to either of these questions this role might be for you

We are looking to recruit a Community Connector to support our busy team. Working closely with GP’s and health colleagues, Social Care Services, and the Voluntary Sector within our 4 Primary Care Neighbourhoods, you will provide personalised support to residents to improve their health and well-being, and address wider issues affecting them.

The role is all about empowering people to take control of their own health and wellbeing by giving them time to focus on what matters to them. You will build trusting relationships, create a shared personalised support plan and connect them to community groups, voluntary organisations and services in their neighbourhood.

By working with partners across Blackburn with Darwen as part of a Social Prescribing Alliance, you will ensure people can access the right support for them. You will be a key figure in ensuring that community groups and voluntary organisations are able to thrive in their neighbourhoods.

A crucial aspect of the role is to help people to work on their wider health and wellbeing; addressing not just health access and outcomes but also the wider determinants of their health, such as debt, social isolation, poor housing and physical inactivity. The role will support lifestyle improvements and low-level mental health concerns by increasing people’s active involvement in their local communities. This approach particularly helps people with long-term conditions including mental health, lonely and/or isolated residents, and complex social needs affecting wellbeing.

Excellent interpersonal skills are integral in supporting people, communities and local organisations to help them care for each other, and you should have experience of working positively with people facing complex social and emotional challenges.

**In addition to your CV, please include supporting information which evidences how you meet the criteria detailed on the key requirements document.**

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ01770

Date posted
- 09/05/2023

Application closing date
- 19/05/2023

Location
- Blackburn with Darwen

Salary
- Grade F, SCP 17-23, £26,845 - £30,151 per annum

Package
- Blank

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Council