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About Age UK Lambeth
We support older people in Lambeth to live enriched, productive and purposeful lives: challenging the stigma of ageing, reducing social isolation and ensuring they get the right support at the right time. We are kind, person-centred and outcome-focused - finding solutions that work by listening, being flexible and including older people in delivering services.
Age UK Lambeth will be working in partnership with Neighbourhood and Wellbeing Delivery Alliance (part of Lambeth Together) to deliver the new Ageing Well Social Prescribing support.
Lambeth Together is a partnership aimed at improving health and wellbeing across Lambeth, uniting a wide range of partners from the voluntary and community sector, NHS, and Lambeth Council. It focuses on creating an integrated health and care system that addresses the needs of the local population effectively and equitably. Central to its operation is the Neighbourhood and Wellbeing Alliance which works towards enhancing community health, supporting individuals through a more cohesive and connected approach to care.
What you’ll be doing?
This role has been developed to work within a specific Lambeth Primary Care Network (PCN) to support their older population access the right support and services that they need to live and age well. This is a new post, and the successful candidate will be key to ensuring the development of new partnerships and local relationships to support Lambeth’s ambitions to ensure older residents can live and age well. Your main responsibilities will be:
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Undertake mapping of the local community, using existing Age UK Lambeth knowledge and resources and creating new tools for this project to identify services and support available to older adults.
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Focus mapping exercise on identifying community interventions that will address health inequalities and improve wellbeing for older adults.
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Using Age UK Lambeth Guides as a template, develop a specific, local guide/ directory for this project.
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Organise, facilitate and deliver training sessions to PCN staff on how to use the guide, developing and building their understanding on local resources and provision in the local area.
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Network to identify new services and community groups to be included within the service guide.
What you’ll benefit from
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Generous pension provision - 7% employer contribution
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26 days holiday a year rising to 31 days after 5 years
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A great staff culture with kindness at its heart
Closing date
27th September 2024
Interviews to take place in early October
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We are seeking a Social Prescribing Coordinator and Link Worker who will support the delivery of the Bromley by Bow Centres social prescribing service.
The role will involve the management of referrals and providing one-to-one-person centred support to patients in the Mile End East and Bromley by Bow (Primary Care Network 6) focussing on what matters to the individual and taking a holistic approach, connecting people to local initiatives and services for practical and emotional support.
Our social prescribing service helps to strengthen personal and community resilience and reduce health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity. The Bromley by Bow Social Prescribing service provides holistic support, connecting people to local initiatives and services for practical and emotional support. The service aims to increase people’s connection with others and their local community and empower them to take control of their own health and wellbeing.
Our social prescribing service helps to strengthen personal and community resilience and reduce health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity. The service aims to increase people’s connection with others and their local community and empower them to take control of their own health and wellbeing.
The Bromley by Bow Social Prescribing service provides:
• Rapid social prescribing: Urgent, one-off support often around isolation, food, money and medication. People are contacted within two day.
• General social prescribing: Longer term emotional and practical support. People are contacted within two weeks and offered three to six sessions to explore challenges, set goals and offered a coaching style of support.
• Social welfare advice social prescribing: Specialist support delivered by a qualified social welfare advisor to address housing and benefit needs.
• Mental Health Community Connectors: Supporting people with serious mental illness (SMI) to achieve better mental health and wellbeing, increasing independence and reducing reliance on services.
• Community self-referrals: Designated link worker receiving social prescribing self-referrals from the Centre.
Location: Bromley by Bow Centre
Job Type: Full time, 35 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £29,214 per annum
Benefits: Generous leave allowance, Interest free loan (bike, season ticket or rent), Regular social activities, Matched Contribution Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme and OH support, Sabbatical (after 7 years at the Centre)
You may also have experience in the following: Social Welfare, Social Liaison, Social Worker, Social Prescribing Link Worker, Advise, Counselling, Not For Profit, Charity, Advocacy, Nursing, Advice Worker, Service Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Service Delivery, etc.
REF-216 843
The Bromley by Bow Centre (BBBC) is working in partnership with Poplar HARCA, an award-winning housing association in East London, to develop a welcoming place for members of the community to access local services and support.
The role will be based within Poplar HARCA’s main building in East India Dock Road, focused on residents in the southeast locality of Tower Hamlets.
The Team Leader will be responsible for developing and overseeing the delivery of the service to ensure people are offered an inclusive and warm welcome. They will be responsible for promoting a positive culture of collaboration and innovation.
The role will line manage the Community Connector and together they will serve as the first point of contact for residents and Poplar HARCA tenants, providing support for people to engage with services and activities. This role aims to build relationships, identify peoples’ interests and goals and find appropriate opportunities for support.
The Team Leader will work to ensure that members of the community are aware of support available to them locally. The role will also involve co-designing, developing, delivering, and reviewing resident-led activities and initiatives within the space.
Location: Bromley by Bow Centre
Job Type: Full time, 35 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed term until 30 September 2025
Salary: £34,680 per annum
Benefits: Generous leave allowance, Interest free loan (bike, season ticket or rent), Regular social activities, Matched Contribution Pension Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme and OH support, Sabbatical (after 7 years at the Centre)
You may also have experience in the following: Community Engagement Leader, Community Development Manager, Neighbourhood Coordinator, Local Area Coordinator, Community Empowerment Manager, Community Project Manager, etc.
REF-216 842