Job Description
Job summary
Grade: | 9 |
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Responsible To: | Health & Wellbeing Team Leader |
Responsible For: | N/A |
Job Purpose: | Local Area Coordinators will provide ongoing support to residents of Dereham and surrounding areas, initially. The primary focus of the post holder will be to address rising inequalities in health and social care and identify unmet need in target community areas. This will include impacting residents wider determinants and health and social need. This will be through a range of activities including outreach assessments, community education, signposting, informal counselling, and advocacy. |
Location of Job: | The Link Dereham - community working with travel in around Breckland. |
Directorate/ Service Area: | Health & Housing |
Description of duties
Primary Objectives
- To undertake proactive and holistic assessments of the health and social needs of individuals and families residing in Dereham and across Breckland
- To provide information, advice and guidance in a range of formats to enable people to access appropriate services.
- To deliver personalised support to individuals and families.
- To provide lifestyle information such as in relation to stopping smoking, alcohol consumption, healthy diet and physical exercise.
- To identify household determinants of ill health and health seeking behaviours and play an active role in resolving these through linkage to the health and social care system.
- Support households to navigate the health and care social system and access the appropriate services for their needs.
- Adopt health coaching and motivational approaches, including problem solving and goal setting.
- Keep digital records that reflect household and community need, on a shared system
- Update records with the collected community data.
- Contribute and communicate your work to the local organisations as appropriate and multidisciplinary teams.
- Facilitate networks within communities to strengthen sources of informal support.
- To provide as appropriate, client advocacy for those experiencing difficulties due to language/cultural barriers and to engage with service providers and local authorities.
- Provide information packs to residents on a range of subjects.
- Liaise with a range of service providers to help them understand relevant issues that may need to be considered or impact on someone's ability to access a service.
- To act promptly to report all Safeguarding concerns in accordance with agreed procedures.
- Support referral agencies to provide appropriate information about the person they are referring. Provide appropriate feedback to referral agencies about the people they referred.
- Attend Breckland Collaboration Meetings, adding to cases and bringing cases with consent.
- Co-ordinate and plan community events.
- Engage with community groups and services, attending these when appropriate.
- Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
- Liaise with a range of stakeholders to enhance the Local Area Coordinator role and profile.
- Work with the Housing and Community wider teams to meet the needs of the population.
- Attend Integrated networking events.
- Contribute to changing and fast paced learning environments.
Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.
On occasion there may be the need to work one day at the weekend
Primary Line / Performance Management Objectives
- N/A
This job description is not exhaustive.
The job description outlines the current position and will be subject to review in the light of development within the service, in consultation with the post holder as detailed in your Contract of Employment.
