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Job description

Connect North Link Worker (Antrim & Newtownabbey Council area). The main purpose of this 35-hour week role is required to deliver health and wellbeing programmes as part of the trust health and wellbeing service. The post holder will work within a team to deliver individual and community-based interventions to support the needs of service users, families/carers and staff, ensuring a high quality of service. The programme aims to encourage and enable self-efficiency in the delivery of a social prescribing service. The post holder will support people to identify their holistic needs, co-create a personalised care plan and support connections to appropriate information and services. The post holder will be required to plan and deliver wellbeing events and facilitate drop-in sessions.

Responsibilities

• To identify, plan and deliver holistic individual needs led and/or structured support/ prevention interventions in line with licenced and other developed programmes, completing appropriate documentation.
• To motivate and support service users, families/carers and staff through approved methods of communication and motivational influencing techniques to support holistic needs, change health and wellbeing behaviour, encourage self-efficacy to achieve.
• To contribute to the development of pathways and resources for follow on support.
• To support the development and maintenance of a database of local health and wellbeing initiatives for onward referral and signposting to further facilitate self-efficacy and behaviour change.
• Contribute to the planning and organisation of training course, scheduled programmes and events delivered by the health and wellbeing team.
• To undertake data collection and analysis/presentation and assist in needs assessment and service evaluation as required.
• Ensure adherence, through his/her own actions to the principles of Equality and Human Rights legislation and policies on data protection, health and safety and fire.
• To participate in supervision and the appraisal and development process, identifying training needs and attending meetings/training courses as required or as appropriate to the duties of the post.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Degree (or working towards) or a recognised professional qualification or equivalent/higher qualification in Health and Wellbeing, Community Development or in a Social or Behavioural Sciences.
• Plus Clearly demonstrate a minimum of 1 year post qualifying experience in a role with experience in population health and wellbeing practice.
• Or Clearly demonstrate a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a role with experience in a health and wellbeing role.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills to meet the needs of the post in full, including online.
• Demonstrate effective organisational skills to plan and deliver individual and/or community interventions effectively.
• Experience in the use of ICT/Data management systems/packages to record, analyse and report on information including word, spreadsheets, email and online survey tools.
• Good working knowledge of health and wellbeing behaviour change and knowledge of population health trends and challenges these present.