Service: Wandsworth WellFamily and Foodbank Service
Location: Wandsworth, SW11-SW15
Hours: 15 hours per week (part-time) Tuesday and Friday preferred
Salary: £36,138 - £39,627 FTE per annum (£14,650.54 - £16,065 per annum for part-time, 15 hours per week) inclusive of inner London weighting
Contract: Temporary (Until June 2025)
We typically divide our time between working in the office, the Wandsworth Community and from home. The whole team works from the office on Tuesdays.
We can offer the flexibility to work fully remotely. Our office space is wheelchair accessible.
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, passionate and experienced team leader or someone with the transferable skills and aspiration to step up into a more senior role. We are looking for someone who has experience of supporting adults in a mental health setting and has a good understanding of the causes and impact of mental ill health upon individuals and their families.
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
Wandsworth WellFamily and Foodbank Service is an adult mental health service, offering practical and emotional support in foodbanks and Primary Care settings.
We’re delighted to be recruiting a Senior Wellbeing Coordinator to support the manager in their role of leading and directing the WellFamily Service, whilst supervising staff, holding a small case load and deputising for the manager. We have a small, supportive and successful team and take a personalised, holistic and collaborative approach to assessing and supporting individuals referred by GPs, Foodbanks and other partnership agencies. The WellFamily Service is commissioned by the South West London Integrated Care Board and delivers much needed support for between 2-6 sessions, in a community setting, GP surgery or by phone.
Main Responsibilities:
You will work closely with the Service Manager and other Senior Wellbeing Coordinator and take a lead on the quality assurance of work completed by the WellFamily team. This includes maintaining a high standard of overall governance including report writing, case management records and developing and maintaining compliance with the organisation’s safeguarding standards. You will work to implement audit processes and line manage at least one member of the team. In addition, you will carry a small caseload alongside your management responsibilities.
Collaborating with partnership agencies and promoting co-production with guests and service users, you will provide 1:1 personalised support to individuals and identify wider issues that impact health and wellbeing. You will address individuals’ unique needs by designing bespoke wellbeing plans and establishing partnerships, helping individuals make positive, long-lasting lifestyle changes and play a pivotal role in diversifying and personalising care in local communities.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
To join us as a Senior Wellbeing Coordinator you will have excellent holistic assessment and consultation skills. You’ll be an effective communicator who excels at building trusting and empowering relationships with individuals, and be able to work closely with a variety of professionals and stakeholders. You will be a skilled and experienced practitioner with the qualities of effective leadership, and dedicated to improving the lives and opportunities of individuals experiencing various challenges including financial hardship, poor mental and physical health and other complex issues. You’ll bring knowledge and experience of supporting adults with physical and mental health issues, and understand the impact of ill health, deprivation and discrimination on adults, children, young people and communities.
Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service: Adult Workforce DBS required.
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days, plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
· Download and submit a completed Application Form linked to the Family Action job advert
• Closing Date: Sunday 12th January 2025 at 11.59pm
• To learn more about Family Action: Careers
• To help us fulfil our commitment to diversity and promoting equal opportunities: complete our anonymous Equality & Diversity Monitoring Information survey
Interviews are scheduled to take place in person on the 23rd of January 2024.
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Rosie.anderson@family-action.org.uk
Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.
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Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
