Living Well Wellbeing Coach Chesterfield, North

**This is a unique and exciting opportunity to truly make a difference to the future of mental health support offered in Derbyshire.**

**The role involves supporting and motivating individuals to improve their mental health by helping them develop self-care skills, build resilience and better utilise community resources.**

We’re looking for an individual, who is motivated by the potential to make a difference to the lives of people and their communities.

You are a dynamic, knowledgeable individual who will join a new team to prototype the new neighbourhood mental health model entitled Derbyshire Living Well, within the High Peak and North Dales area of Derbyshire. This role is part of a team that covers Chesterfield/NE Derbyshire and Bolsover.

The service is Derbyshire Recovery & Peer support, which has a team that provides recovery services to people in the community and supports them in long term recovery through Peer activity. An extension of this is the living well Hubs which is in collaboration with the NHS Trust underpinning this is Peer support development and training. The service has an over service contract manager and managers located in areas across Derbyshire who support teams of coaches including those with lived experience.

**What I do and achieve**
- Manage a caseload of individuals with complex needs
- Provide coaching support to individuals on a 1:1 or group basis giving information, guidance, advice and support
- Support individuals to develop ‘My Story’- a way of telling their story, capturing their goals and co-design a journey of support
- Provide emotional and practical support to individuals
- building confidence and skills and grow their ability to self-manage their mental wellbeing
- Connect individuals to appropriate interventions e.g. housing advice, debt support, education etc.
- Coach people to plan and set their own goals and support them to identify possible solutions to the problems they are facing
- Work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and receive and share information within that team in order to safeguard individuals and support them to work towards their goals and aspirations
- To maintain accurate information systems of records and activities, complete data sheets and monitoring and evaluating data
- Organise and facilitate group-based workshops and activities, ensuring self-help and peer support groups cover a flexible timetable
- Support service design, coproduction, development and improvement ensuring quality is maintained throughout
- Develop appropriate resources and materials for the service
- Support identification of spaces and places to build a network of places across High Peak and North Dales area that people can connect with
- Establish and maintain links with other services in NED&B Chesterfield area
- Ability to travel across NED&B Chesterfield area
- Working with relatives, carers and visitors to educate them about mental health conditions
- Effectively support delivery of the new neighbourhood mental health model.

**Who I am?**
- Has experience working with individuals with multifaceted mental health needs and complexity
- including serious mental illness
- Genuinely cares about making a difference and is motivated to improve mental health outcomes for people and their communities.
- Be willing to attend Training and personal development
- Health & social care qualification or willing to work towards
- Has experience managing caseloads of individuals with complex disadvantage
- Has a working knowledge and understanding of mental health and the ability to recognise the indicators of deteriorating mental health.
- Has good communications skills and work well as part of a team
- Has the ability to prioritise work tasks and develop effective work streams both for oneself and individuals in teams
- Has a sound knowledge of information governance and the management of risks
- **Appointments will be at the minimum of the band.**:

- **London Allowance is paid for roles that are based within the Greater London area only.**

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