Resilience Worker

**Resilience Worker**

**Responsible to**: County Durham Resilience Project Lead

**Accountable to**: PCP Chief Executive & Board of Trustees

**Located**: Significant outreach across County Durham (with some homeworking)

**Starting salary**: Starting Salary £25,635 per annum pro-rata

**Salary scale**:Scale Points 9-11, £25,635 - £27,385 per annum pro-rata

**Hours**: 20 hours per week

**Term**: Fixed until 31st March 2025 (With likelihood to continue beyond then)

**DBS Status**: Enhanced

**Key Role**

1. Work in local communities to promote the service;
2. Support Mental Health Hubs to deliver on the mental health transformation programme

3. Offer support for people who have been adversely impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic with mental health and emotional wellbeing support

4. Provide a ‘no wrong door’ approach and effectively signpost people to relevant local services;
5. Support people to develop action plans to enable safe and appropriate connections, exercise, diversionary activities;
6. Support general rehabilitation, work with people affected by Post-Covid.

7. Enable and facilitate the development of appropriate support groups;
8. Develop volunteer opportunities within and external to the project

9. Support the overall service evaluation processes

1. To undertake a comprehensive personal training programme to ensure delivery is evidence based, appropriate and well delivered.

2. To work in communities to promote the service and recruit appropriate clients.

4. To manage a caseload of individuals and provide 1:1 support including, but not limited to:
a. Working in a solutions-focus manner to assist clients to overcome a range of barriers;
b. Preparation and co-production of appropriate action plans to enable clients to improve their mental health;
c. Maintaining regular supportive contact with each person to assist them to achieve their goals;
d. Providing practical health and wellbeing support and interventions;
e. Sourcing a holistic package of support to assist the development of each individual; and

f. Signposting and referring individuals to a range of activities, interventions, across a range of settings (primary care services and voluntary and community support);
5. To develop and deliver appropriate group interventions with a mental wellbeing and resilience emphasis.

6. To be responsible for data processing including inputting information onto databases and creating reports.

7. To ensure services are promoted through a variety of communications, marketing and media sources and platforms within the locality covered.

8. To assist with overall service marketing and promotion activities, including supporting mental wellbeing and health events and publicity campaigns as appropriate.

9. To recruit, support, train and motivate a small team of volunteers to support overall delivery.

10. To establish and maintain strong relationships within the service and with VCSE delivery partners.

11. To develop and maintain excellent working links/partnerships with external agencies to support delivery and assist people to reach their goals.

12. To contribute to the development of systems and procedures, and the whole team approach in meeting quality and performance targets.

13. To work flexibly as part of the County-wide multi-agency team and to provide cover for colleagues as required to help maintain appropriate support for people in the community.

14. To conduct personal, venue and activity risk assessments as required.

15. To ensure Health and Safety and Safeguarding procedures are always adhered to.

**General**

1. To uphold PCP’s Core Values at all times.

2. To comply with PCP’s policy & procedures, including safeguarding (adults and children) and other compliance procedures.

3. To assist marketing and engagement work and use creative techniques to gather views from the communities we support.

4. To actively take responsibility for your own Health & Safety and ensuring procedures are adhered to.

5. To collate appropriate monitoring and evaluation information to support the achievement of agreed targets and outcomes within the project or service.

6. To carry out all responsibilities in line with the organisation’s Equality & Diversity Policy.

7. To recruit, support, train and motivate volunteers as required.

8. To undertake any training and development deemed appropriate.

9. To undertake any such duties required by your Senior Manager or PCP Chief Executive.

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: £25,635.00 per year

Expected hours: 20 per week

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Newton Aycliffe

Application deadline: 06/10/2024