Wellbeing Manager / Community Activities Coordinator / Mental Health

Wellbeing Manager / Community Workshop Activities Coordinator with experience of supporting people with mental health issues, staff management/leadership skills and the ability to run workshops and group sessions is required for a well-established charity based in East London.

This role is officially known as a Wellbeing Cafés Coordinator.

SALARY: Starting from £34,249 FTE / Actual Annual Salary £9,133 (based on 10 hours per week) + Benefits

LOCATION: Leyton, East London (E10)

JOB TYPE: Part-Time, 1 Year Fixed Term Contract

WORKING HOURS: 10 hours per week, 40 weeks per year

JOB OVERVIEW

We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Wellbeing Manager / Community Workshop Activities Coordinator with experience of supporting people with mental health issues, staff management/leadership skills and the ability to run workshops and group sessions.

Working as the Wellbeing Manager / Community Workshop Activities Coordinator, you will run two Wellbeing Cafés in the community. These cafés are places where people can get involved in creative and wellbeing activities, learn new skills, increase levels of self-esteem, confidence, social contacts and get connected to wider community resources.

Each café will be open for 40 weeks per year. Between 10-15 people will attend each café for 3 hours a week, over 4 terms of 10 weeks.

As the Wellbeing Manager / Community Workshop Activities Coordinator, you will take responsibility for the operation of the Wellbeing Cafés and ongoing development of the service.

DUTIES

• Take a lead role in the development and delivery of the Wellbeing Café service and to coordinate operations.
• Facilitate bi-weekly sessions to support individuals to improve their overall wellbeing, reduce social isolation and access new opportunities.
• Oversee and approve session planning, providing weekly activities that promote mental wellbeing and mindfulness focused on one or more of 5 ways of wellbeing – take notice, learn, connect, give and be active.
• Ensure the Wellbeing Café is staffed appropriately. Recruit and line-manage facilitators and volunteers.
• Conduct referral meetings and risk assessments for potential beneficiaries.
• Reduce barriers to wellbeing by providing access to cost-of-living support, debt and benefits advice, volunteering opportunities and confidence boosting activities.
• Ensure that individuals are taking up services available to them, such as engagement with community projects and activities, employment and training services, welfare benefits advice, digital inclusion and cost of living support.
• Provide individualised support to discuss and agree a progression route for each participant, ensuring that everyone is supported.
• Connect participants to further useful community services and activities.
• Monitor the service by collecting attendance figures, demographic data and carrying out a “before and after” service evaluation using approved wellbeing scales.
• Evaluate the service by collecting participants’ feedback, testimonials and case stories and reflecting on good practice, successes and challenges and impact achieved.
• Actively promote the availability and benefits of the service to social prescribers, mental health professionals and agencies in the community.
• Source and provide information and signposting to health, employment, housing, welfare advice, social care, and other services in Waltham Forest.
• Challenge inappropriate behaviour or conduct of visitors to the site.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• Line management experience or experience of coordinating volunteers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including active listening and diplomacy.
• Presentation skills, running workshops and facilitating groups.
• Ability to understand good customer care and provide excellent customer focus.
• Experience of supporting people with lived experience of mental health issues.
• Open to change and able to work flexibly.
• Commitment to working in partnership with a range of stakeholders and staff.
• Understanding of the challenges faced by people experiencing mental health difficulties.
• Demonstrate a commitment to equality and diversity in the workplace.
• Commitment to safeguarding users and others.
• Self-starter.
• Experience of working with qualitative and quantitative data.
• Experience of managing budgets.

DBS clearance at Enhanced (without Barring) is required for this role.

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JOB REF: AWDO-C12461