We Are With You are offering the exciting opportunity to join our small Community Link Worker team in East Lothian, so take a closer look! We have a really strong focus on a positive team culture; our staff report high levels of job satisfaction, feeling well supported as well as being able to see a great impact of their work.
We have a 30 hour post available in the Prestonpans GP Practice. You will provide 1:1 and small group support to people referred to you by the Practice team. The role is a ‘generalist’ role; meaning that you will see people facing all kinds of health and wellbeing challenges; including low level mental health difficulties, disability, long term conditions, bereavement, poverty, relationship difficulties, experience of trauma, housing problems, parenting challenges to name just some.
Your remit is to offer evidence-based interventions, to motivate people to make change and to link them with the right tools and support to improve their wellbeing. You’ll build up great connections with the local community, third sector and statutory service; so as to create strong referral pathways for the people referred to you.
If it sounds like a busy, interesting and challenging job, that’s because it is!
What we’re looking for
Do you have a real passion for helping people improve their health and wellbeing?
Do you naturally collect information and make good connections with people?
Can you keep yourself well organised and work to a service model?
Do you have insight into health inequalities and the impact of deprivation on health?
Are you qualified to SVQ Level 3 in Social Services and Health Care or Community Development or equivalent?
If you are a yes to the above then we would love to hear from you.
Further information about this job
You can see more about our work here
www.wearewithyou.org.uk/community-links
Core hours of work will be 30 hours between Mon-Friday 9am -5pm.
Contract length will be discussed further at the interview.
Closing date for applications is 17th April 2022 and interviews will take place on Tuesday 26th April 2022.
If you have any queries regarding this post then please email eastlothianlinks@wearewithyou.org.uk with your contact details and we will get back to you.
For further details about working with us click here.
