Community Health and Well- Worker

We are looking for a Community Health and Wellbeing Worker (CHWW)/Health and Wellbeing Coach roles. These are new roles within Wood Farm and offers flexible, part-time hours, the ability to organise your own workload, with some evening and weekend hours required. You will be based at Hedena Health, a GP practice in Headington, but will work across our OX3+ Primary Care Network.

As a CHWW, you will be in a patient-facing role engaging with members of the Wood Farm community to identify ways to improve the health and wellbeing of the young, old and their families, connecting them to access appropriate support and community resources. This role bridges health and social services and the community. CHWW are passionate role models who will provide advice and signposting to everyone within their communities, enabling them to make positive choices around health and–well‑being.

Youll meet people face to face, helping them to find local health services, offering to help them make appointments or signpost them to local services to support their needs.

Alongside participating in evaluation activities within a project team, you will play a significant role in increasing health promotion and wellbeing, through a range of activities including:
Outreach assessments, Signposting, Education, Group/Community events.

Community Health and Wellbeing Workers are local people whocare about the health of their community and those around them. As a Community Health and Wellbeing Worker (CHWW) you will be a frontline primary care andpublic health worker employed from the local community. The outreach work of aCHWW is essential in addressing the rising inequities in health and social careand in identifying unmet need in the community.

The CHWW performs a variety ofduties with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve. They play a significant role in increasing health promotion,through a range of activities including outreach assessments, raisingawareness, community education, signposting, informal counselling, and support.

Their bridging role between health and social services and the community, willhelp remove barriers to people accessing the support and services that meet theneeds of the local community. Community Health Workers are positive role models and provide advice and signpostingtopeople living in their own communities, to enable them to make positive choicesaround health and wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a new jobrole new to the UK.

Hedena Health is a 25,000 patient GP Practice in Headington with adiverse patient base. We are a friendly,welcoming team and focus on wellbeing through initiatives such as an annual

Away Day, fresh fruit deliveries, staff parties, homemade cakes and a Hedenarunning club. We are based in Headington, near Oxford and benefits include NHSpension, cycle to work scheme and we have plenty of on-site parking.

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Duties & Responsibilities:

Monthly household visits (or more frequent if the household need requires it) within a defined geographical area in Wood Farm (up to a maximum of 120 households) to assess the health and social needs of everyone within a household, adopting a proactive and holistic approach when supporting the local Wood Farm community.

Community Health Workers will:

• Make contact with each household in a defined area on a regular basis, face to face or virtually as appropriate, listening and discussing health needs on each visit.
• Identify vulnerable households or individuals in conjunction with health care teams.
• Identify health and/or social care needs in conjunction with health care teams.
• Act as an advocate to help households navigate the health and social care systems, access appropriate services and remove barriers to accessing services and resources.
• Manage their time to ensure that visits are completed.
• Adhere to the Lone Worker Policy when carrying out visits to households.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues across health, social care and the third sector to provide patient-centred, integrated care.
• Develop supportive relationships with local VCSE organisations,…