Community Health and Wellbeing Navigator
About Shaw Trust
At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.
Having grown from humble beginnings in 1982 in the village of Shaw in Wiltshire, finding jobs for disabled people, today we are a complex and diverse charity committed to employment as the core pathway to a better life. For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.
Role Purpose
In response to growing needs as result of COVID 19, Live Well Kent and Medway are expanding to offer additional, short term support to those who need it the most. We are recruiting for Community Health and Wellbeing Navigators to expand our existing team to offer short term support for up to 6 weeks. This is a Fixed Term contract until March 2022
Live Well Kent & Medway targets support for those living in areas of deprivation and we have a track record of successfully engaging clients residing in the most socially and economically deprived areas in Kent. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that individuals experiencing deprivation also experience health inequalities that put them at greater risk of both contracting Covid 19 and serious illness.
Live Well Kent and Medway are increasing access to support through additional Community Health and Wellbeing Navigators and the three stage re-integration support package that will enable us to engage hard to reach communities who might not otherwise engage with statutory health and social care services and who are likely to face barriers in accessing changing Covid safe messaging. This role will be vital in communicating key Covid messaging to clients, recording this through ‘Making Every Contact Count’, reducing the risk of further outbreaks within vulnerable populations.
This role is perfect for individuals with experience of working within a community mental health and or wellbeing setting using a caseload management approach. A practical understanding of primary and secondary care with the ability to champion and embrace change would be useful. The successful candidate will have a solution focussed approach, be highly organised and be able to deliver to agreed service specifications and outcomes.
Download the Job Description for full details and Person Specification.
Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format, email: HRService.Centre@shaw-trust.org.uk to make alternative arrangements.
Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.