Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Work location: London
Hours per week: 24 – 28
Contract type: Temporary for 18 months
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS check
Closing date: 24th April 2022
Interview date: 3rd and 4th May 2022
About Us
Support our teams and help them to empower the local community to live healthier, happier lives.
At the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people at the heart of every decision. We want to give our residents a great quality of life, and we work in partnership with them to provide reliable, responsive, and effective services that enable them to do so.
Our workplace culture reflects this too. We support and inspire people through their personal and professional development by helping them learn new skills and gain new experiences.
The work we do is deeply fulfilling. Each new day presents us with new challenges and new opportunities to make a difference. Join this forward-thinking team and uncover a career path like no other, where you can transform the lives of some of our communities most vulnerable people.
The Role
Our Community Health and Wellbeing Workers are a vital part of Adult Social Care and Health team. As Team Coordinator, you’ll ensure no one gets left behind – supporting each of our workers in their role and enabling them to prioritise the people and projects where they’re needed most.
Our team provides personalised support to residents and households in the Golborne / World’s End area – visiting them in-person to better understand their needs, and staying in regular contact with them to see how things progress. The Community Health and Wellbeing Worker Team Coordinator, will give administrative support to the team – creating reports, organising meetings, connecting people with relevant stakeholders, and gathering data in a safe and confidential manner.
Alongside our Community Health and Wellbeing Workers, you will help people make better, more informed decisions on their health and wellbeing – acting as a bridge between residents and local support services. This could include supporting someone through issues such as mental health, isolation, loneliness, vaccinations, diet, fitness, or chronic disease management.
You will report into the Community Health Programme Manager and work closely with community partners to better understand the various activities and services available to the local community. You will also work with GP’s and other healthcare professionals to ensure that patient needs are being met and properly communicated.
About You
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
You will be a naturally organised and detail-oriented person, with great communication skills. We work with some of the community’s most vulnerable residents, and we deal with some incredibly sensitive topics on a regular basis, so a resilient mind and positive attitude will make a big difference.
You will have experience supporting teams of staff or volunteers, and you will be comfortable and confident with administrative duties like data entry and time management.
You will have at least five GCSEs (or equivalent) at C or above, including English and Science, and it would be helpful to have some basic knowledge of good healthcare practices and NHS services. A knowledge of the local community and the language spoken here could be advantageous too.
Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s alone will not be considered for this role.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Additional Information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.
This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.
We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.
Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.
If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: [email protected]
To apply for this job please visit careers.newjob.org.uk.