Family Action Looking for Senior WellFamily Plus Service Worker at London, Greater London (Hybrid) Full Time

Senior WellFamily Plus Service Worker, Hackney WellFamily plus Service

Based in City and Hackney

30 Hours per week (part-time), remote and part on-site working, flexible hours

Grade 3 (lower) point 20-23: £30,861 – £33,512 FTE (£25,022.43 – £27,171.89 per annum), Inclusive of Inner London weighting

Permanent role

Are you a self-motivated team player with a can-do attitude, who is solution focused and passionate about making a difference? If so, we want to hear from you.

At Family Action we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

The role and service / project

We are looking for a motivated, passionate and experienced WellFamily Worker with an impressive record of accomplishment of delivering high quality 1 to 1 services to meet the needs of service users from a Primary care setting. You will strive for excellent standards, robustly ensuring a quality, outcomes driven and accessible service. By joining Family Action’s WellFamily Plus service,   you will ensure good quality holistic assessment is for people 16 and over, using emotional and practical interventions to meet the health and wellbeing outcomes for adults, children, young people and families. This is a short-term intervention model – offering up to eight sessions. It is a well-established model in City and Hackney and embedded within the 42 GP practices across the borough.

Your impact

Collaborating with health professionals and promoting co-production with 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 improve their health and wellbeing, making positive, long-lasting lifestyle changes and play a pivotal role in diversifying and personalising care in local communities.

Your skills

You will have a strong track record in service delivery and a focus on quality, performance, safeguarding and record keeping .With a client-facing approach you will be passionate about engaging our service users in all aspects of our work including co-production. We want to hire a ‘can-do’ and energetic  Wellbeing Plus worker at a senior level  who will build and sustain positive working relationships with key stakeholders   while developing partnerships that will continue to evolve and effectively meet the needs of everyone the service supports.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities 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 and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities 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 and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

What will we offer you?

We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. We are happy to talk flexible working. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. You’ll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core.

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. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills then we look forward to hearing from you.  

For an informal discussion about this opportunity please contact: Banu Aydinoglugil, Service Manager, Family Action WellFamily Plus Project. Contact details are on the advert document attached.

For an application pack and further information, please see attached or visit the Family Action current vacancies page.

Please email completed applications to the designated email inbox (21), please see advert document.

Closing date:               Monday 5th September 2022 at 09:00am
Interview date:            TBC 

Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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