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Wellbeing Coach

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

As a wellbeing coach you’ll be working as part of the CAMHS system in Essex where we deliver services across Southend, Essex and Thurrock.

 

The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, they will be responsible for providing targeted outcomes-focused help to address specific emotional health issues.

 

The Wellbeing coach will use a solution focused methodology to provide a personalised coaching programme of advice and support incorporating social prescribing with a specific focus on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing;

1.         Connecting with other people,

2.         Being physically active.

3.         Learning new skills

4.         Giving to others

5.         Paying attention to the present moment (mindfulness)

 

The Wellbeing coach will work across the local system with, and for, the family and the children and young people, to prevent escalation of need.

The role includes:

  • Employing a solution focused coaching methodology to support children, young people and their families to develop positive coping strategies
  • Using social prescribing to help enable children and young people to adopt the 5-ways to wellbeing as a mechanism to both manage and improve their own wellbeing / personal resilience. 
  • Undertake home visits to children and young and participate in the assessment of care needs and implement a planned programme of care.
  • Deliver therapeutic Evidence Based interventions to support young people to develop their own solutions, led by their needs, wants and aspirations.
  • To actively participate in the gathering of service user, family/carers and other stakeholder’s feedback
  • Follow-up parents / children / young people who default appointments.

Main Responsibility

Key Responsibilities

The post holder will support the delivery of an effective service through the provision of support in the areas described; -

 

  • To hold a defined caseload of service users which is supervised and monitored by a Getting Help Practitioner

 

  • Working individually with service users to design and develop individualised, collaborative wellbeing plans to address their individual needs, under the supervision of the Getting help practitioner.
     
  • Empower Service Users to work through their Wellbeing plan, using structured interventions and motivational communication methods.
     
  • Review service user progression and adjust Wellbeing Plans in conjunction with the service user as required to meet their targets and goals
     
  • Engage and work with local organisations and ECFWS teams to ensure that services required by Users are in place and effective
     
  • Undertake and contribute to clinical risk assessment and management for self, service user/carer and other team members, ensuring all appropriate procedures are adhered to.

 

  • Facilitate links with specialist services as required

 

  • To attend MDT and other clinical meetings as needed
     
  • To support young people with the process of transition into adult services

 

  • Work in close partnership with the Partnership Liaison Officers to ensure that local organisation relationships are developed and maintained

 

  • To engage in practice development and continuous improvement opportunities.
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The Ideal Candidate

You will have a Level 3 certificate in working with parents and a level 3 diploma for the children and young people's workforce/advanced diploma in counselling/foundation degree/HND in family support work.

You will have the skills required to communicate with parents/carers, external agenices and provide pastoral support and advice to pupils. 

You will have experience in delivering at least one manualised therapeutic intervention; mindfulness, Dina's dinosaur school, incredible years, FLASH, Go-Girls, Why Try

We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Package Description

As a Wellbeing Coach, you’ll be part of our valued team in Essex

You will feel valued as a Wellbeing Coach within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

  •  £22549 - £24882 with group pension 
  • Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
  • Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
  • Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
  • Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
  • Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
  • *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
  • *The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
     

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

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