[ref. a02865420] Resilience Worker
Pioneering Care Partnership Durham
Resilience Worker
Responsible to: County Durham Resilience Project LeadAccountable 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- Work in local communities to promote the service;
- Support Mental Health Hubs to deliver on the mental health transformation programme
- Offer support for people who have been adversely impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic with mental health and emotional wellbeing support
- Provide a ‘no wrong door’ approach and effectively signpost people to relevant local services;
- Support people to develop action plans to enable safe and appropriate connections, exercise, diversionary activities;
- Support general rehabilitation, work with people affected by Post-Covid.
- Enable and facilitate the development of appropriate support groups;
- Develop volunteer opportunities within and external to the project
- Support the overall service evaluation processes
- To undertake a comprehensive personal training programme to ensure delivery is evidence based, appropriate and well delivered.
- To work in communities to promote the service and recruit appropriate clients.
- To apply asset-based community development techniques and undertake research to support access to appropriate services.
- To manage a caseload of individuals and provide 1:1 support including, but not limited to:
- Working in a solutions-focus manner to assist clients to overcome a range of barriers;
- Preparation and co-production of appropriate action plans to enable clients to improve their mental health;
- Maintaining regular supportive contact with each person to assist them to achieve their goals;
- Providing practical health and wellbeing support and interventions;
- Sourcing a holistic package of support to assist the development of each individual; and
- Signposting and referring individuals to a range of activities, interventions, across a range of settings (primary care services and voluntary and community support);
- To develop and deliver appropriate group interventions with a mental wellbeing and resilience emphasis.
- To be responsible for data processing including inputting information onto databases and creating reports.
- To ensure services are promoted through a variety of communications, marketing and media sources and platforms within the locality covered.
- To assist with overall service marketing and promotion activities, including supporting mental wellbeing and health events and publicity campaigns as appropriate.
- To recruit, support, train and motivate a small team of volunteers to support overall delivery.
- To establish and maintain strong relationships within the service and with VCSE delivery partners.
- To develop and maintain excellent working links/partnerships with external agencies to support delivery and assist people to reach their goals.
- To contribute to the development of systems and procedures, and the whole team approach in meeting quality and performance targets.
- 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.
- To conduct personal, venue and activity risk assessments as required.
- To ensure Health and Safety and Safeguarding procedures are always adhered to.
- To uphold PCP’s Core Values at all times.
- To comply with PCP’s policy & procedures, including safeguarding (adults and children) and other compliance procedures.
- To assist marketing and engagement work and use creative techniques to gather views from the communities we support.
- To actively take responsibility for your own Health & Safety and ensuring procedures are adhered to.
- To collate appropriate monitoring and evaluation information to support the achievement of agreed targets and outcomes within the project or service.
- To carry out all responsibilities in line with the organisation’s Equality & Diversity Policy.
- To recruit, support, train and motivate volunteers as required.
- To undertake any training and development deemed appropriate.
- To undertake any such duties required by your Senior Manager or PCP Chief Executive.
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