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About Us:
Enable is a charity dedicated to improving people's wellbeing and strengthening local communities. We work with councils, charities and other local organisations to deliver health, leisure, community services and events that enrich people’s lives and strengthen our local community.
At Enable, we value our employees and our culture, focusing on embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive, flexible and fun environment for employees to perform at their best. On top of a competitive salary and flexible working environment, employees will also receive:
Benefits:
- 30 days of annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays)
- Life Insurance
- Reward Schemes (RewardHub Membership, wellbeing budgets and cycle to work)
- A variety of social and wellbeing activities each month
- Mental Health & Wellbeing Perks (Monthly talks, Wellbeing Hour, etc)
- Gym Membership
Reports to: Social Prescribing Manager
Based: Balham, Tooting and Furzedown PCN
Salary: £35,530.43
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Work Arrangement: 40 hours per week, hybrid between home, office and GP practices
DBS: Enhanced with Adults
Role Overview:
The Health and Wellbeing Team are a passionate group of health professionals who empower people to make lasting changes to their health and wellbeing and improve their quality of life. We put the person at the centre of everything we do, building innovative initiatives that tackle barriers to improving health. We are experts at reducing health inequalities, real or perceived, and creating lasting changes.
Main Duties/Responsibilities:
Person-centred care and support
- Deliver effective social prescribing appointments using a holistic and person-centred approach that helps people focus on what matters to them.
- Empower people to take control of their own wellbeing by building their confidence, motivating them to set goals and creating personalised action plans.
- Signpost and refer people to local voluntary, community and statutory services that help meet their needs.
- Support people to overcome their personal barriers to access VCSE organisations and follow up to ensure they are satisfied, able to engage, and receiving good support.
- Treat everyone with dignity, and respect different cultures, religions, ways of life and other personal characteristics at all times.
Communication and Collaboration
- Build excellent relationships with primary care/adult social care teams, providing regular updates, sharing knowledge of local VCSE organisations and working together to develop the service.
- Provide support and develop partnerships with local VCSE organisations, community groups, and statutory services to make safe and effective onward referrals.
- Work with the Enable Health and Wellbeing Team and local partners to identify unmet needs within the community and gaps in service provision.
- Promote the social prescribing micro-commissioning fund and support VCSE organisations to apply.
- Act as a champion of social prescribing, increasing awareness and promoting its benefits to a wide range of audiences.
- Work with a team of volunteer buddies to provide additional support to clients.
Service Quality and Development
- Collect and record outcome, monitoring and impact data using required systems, contributing to the evaluation of the service.
- Manage own case load to ensure clients receive appropriate levels of support and expectations are met.
- Gather client feedback to evaluate the quality of the service and to inform service changes and developments.
- Identify how the service could be developed and improved and, drawing upon knowledge of service delivery, make suggestions about how social prescribing could be embedded to a greater extent across Wandsworth.
- Keep up to date with key changes in the health and social care sector in order to shape and develop the service, including those relating to good practice and policy.
- Lead by example by demonstrating excellent customer service, delivery skills, organisation and professionalism.
- Complete Quality Assurance Assessments for VCSE organisations accepting social prescribing referrals to ensure they are safe, effective, and have the support they need to be part of social prescribing.
- Work with your line manager to identify your own support needs and undertake continual personal and professional development.
General Responsibilities
- To comply with all of Enable Leisure and Culture Codes of practice and conduct, including policies and procedures concerning data protection, health and safety and safeguarding.
- To be committed to the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion for others, both colleagues and clients.
- To create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected. Report any instances of inappropriate behaviour or discrimination.
- Ensure data is kept securely in line with data protection law and Enable LC’s procedures.
- To be fully aware of the principles of safeguarding as they apply to children and vulnerable adults in relation to your work role. Always follow safeguarding procedures and ensure that your line manager is kept fully informed of any safeguarding concerns.
- To carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities that contribute to the overall function of the team, appropriate with the grading of the post.
- To apply a flexible approach to working in different environments including from home, GP practices, healthcare settings, community venues and Enable offices.
- To travel inside or outside the borough when required.
Skills and Experience:
- At least 2 year experience in a role that involves delivering face-to-face support in a relevant health or social care environment.
- Experience adopting a person-centred approach in order to meet the needs of service users and of empowering them to make informed choices.
- Experience of working with people of all ages with a range of social needs.
- Experience of working with the VCSE sector (in a paid or voluntary capacity), including with volunteers and small community groups.
- Motivational interviewing, behaviour change, or health coaching qualification (desirable) or willingness to undertake training (essential).
- Motivational interviewing, behaviour change or health coaching experience (desirable).
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors.
- Understanding of personalisation and the skills required to support self-care.
- An understanding of the principles of confidentiality and how these apply when handling service-user information.
- Local knowledge of VCSE and community services in Wandsworth (desirable).
Aptitudes, skills and competencies
- Good ability to use Microsoft Office (including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint) and other online client monitoring systems or tools as required.
- Ability to work with and support people with a wide range of health and wellbeing needs, inspiring trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability and confidence to listen actively, motivate, support, and advocate.
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written; able to communicate in a meaningful way and develop effective relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Excellent organisation, planning and time management skills.
- Able to collect and record data to enable the monitoring of key performance indicators, reporting on them as and when required.
- Able to work effectively with others in an open and collaborative way, valuing differences and contributing to a working environment which helps to achieve goals.
- Able to work unsupervised to meet agreed outcomes, targets and deadlines.
- Ability to identify risk, assess and manage risk when working with patients.
Personal qualities
- Able to demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and ability to work well under pressure.
- Commitment to working in deprived communities and reducing health inequalities.
- Commitment to valuing equality and diversity and understanding of how this applies to own area of work.
- Commitment to own professional and personal development and willingness to undertake training and development as appropriate to the role.
- Able to work flexible hours if required by the post and able to work in various setting.
- Able to commute to various service locations across the borough as required.
Thank you!
Help on Your Doorstep
Social Prescribing Link Worker (Part time)
Hours: 3 days a week - one day to be worked on a Friday
Salary: 17,908 (pro rata)
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About Help on Your Doorstep
Help on Your Doorstep, is a pioneering charity working in the London Borough of Islington to improve the health and wellbeing of people and the communities that they live in. Through our Social Prescribing Service, ‘Connect’ outreach and referral service and Good Neighbour Schemes, we support people to thrive in healthier, happier and more connected communities.
At the heart of everything we do is a commitment to build trusted, relationship-based support with individuals and communities. We work closely with partners who share our vision of tackling the social and health inequalities that affect people across Islington.
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About the role
Our Social Prescribing service supports patients referred by GP practices across Central Islington. Working within a fast, paced, person-centred environment, Social Prescribing Link Workers support individuals to identify what matters most to them and connects with community services, activities and support that improves their well-being and addresses the wider determinants of health.
The service benefits from close collaboration with our Connect service and access to over 120 referral partners, offering a diverse range of opportunities to support residents’ health, wellbeing and independence.
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What You’ll Be Doing
As part of a dedicated team of four Social Prescribing Link Workers, seven Connect service colleagues and external partners working in primary care teams, you will:
· Work with patients referred by GP practices to provide personalised, strengths based support
· Build trusted relationships and support individuals to overcome, social, practical and emotional barriers
· Support people to access community-based services, activities and networks
· Manage a varied caseload, maintaining accurate and timely records
· Work collaboratively with GP practices, primary care teams, colleagues and external partners
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About You
· Passionate about creating a fairer society and reducing health inequalities
· Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
· Have experience of providing person-centred or personalised support (paid or unpaid)
· Can work at pace and work across different data-systems and maintain accurate records
· Can manage a caseload in an organised and methodical way
· Are comfortable balancing face to face work with administrative responsibilities
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For a full job description, person specification and details on how to apply, please go to our website
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Our Team
You will be part of a supportive and collaborative team of 4 Social Prescribing Link Workers and 7 Connect Service colleagues, GP practices and external partners across Islington. We value teamwork, reflective practice, and learning from one another to continually improve outcomes for residents.
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The deadline for completed applications is 9.00am on February 23rd 2026. In person interviews will be held on March 5th 2026.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
Help on Your Doorstep aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Islington, especially those who are vulnerable and isolated.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Chief Executive - Help & Care
Location: Home-based within easy reach of Dorset (regular travel across the region)
Salary: circa £85,000 per annum
Contract: permanent, either full-time basis (37 hours per week) or part-time (30 hours per week). We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for part-time hours, including how these are worked across the working week.
Are you an innovative leader who will put communities and social justice at the heart of transforming how health and social care is delivered in Dorset and the south of England?
Help & Care has been supporting communities across Dorset and the south coast since 1985. We deliver person-centred services that promote dignity, independence and connection - from dementia coordination and health coaching to our award-winning Roots gardening programme and social prescribing partnerships. Working with over 25 partners across health, housing and the voluntary sector, we co-produce services that make a real difference to older people, those with long-term conditions, carers and people at risk of isolation.
As our new Chief Executive, you will collaborate with a dedicated Board and a strong, highly motivated team focusing on the following key areas of responsibility:
- Strategic leadership: Define an ambitious, values-led strategy and deliver it, securing long-term impact alongside sustainable financial growth.
- Values leadership: Place Help & Care’s values - social justice, innovation, personal and collaborative - at the heart of decision-making and model them through visible leadership.
- Growth & income diversification: Lead business development to diversify income streams, winning commissioned contracts and developing social-enterprise opportunities to reduce reliance on public commissioning.
- Partnerships & advocacy: Strengthen and sustain senior-level relationships across the NHS, local authorities, commissioners and the voluntary sector; represent Help & Care across systems, media and stakeholder networks.
- Service quality & impact: Embed rigorous monitoring and evaluation so outcome evidence drives commissioning decisions, improves financial performance and enhances the organisation’s reputation.
- People leadership: Inspire, retain and develop a high-performing, compassionate leadership team and workforce, focused on talent development, wellbeing and accountability.
- Governance & financial stewardship: Provide the Board with timely, high-quality reporting, oversee financial recovery or sustainability plans as required, and ensure robust risk, compliance and governance arrangements.
Who you are:
- An experienced CEO or senior director from complex, multi-service health, social care or community organisations, with experience of developing and delivering multi-agency contracts.
- Proven track record of securing commissioned contracts, leading tendering and contract oversight, and developing income diversification, including social-enterprise opportunities.
- Comfortable driving strategic transformation and financial sustainability, with demonstrable expertise in strategic financial management.
- A values-led, collaborative and visible leader with high emotional intelligence and resilience, committed to social justice, person-centred practice and co-production; an effective public representative and mentor.
Why Help & Care?
- Lead a highly respected regional provider with an outstanding track record of co-production and innovation.
- Shape an organisation poised for growth and greater regional influence.
- Hybrid, home-based working, regular travel across Dorset, and the chance to safeguard vital services for local communities.
For full details of the role including how to apply, please download the full appointment brief. For an informal and confidential conversation about this position, please contact Jenny Hills at Harris Hill via apply button with times to speak and (optional but appreciated) a CV or professional profile which will be treated with the strictest confidence
Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 23rd February 2026. Interviews and assessments on 3rd, 4th and 5th March.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.
Thank you!
Overview
Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives.
Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our teams apply these daily offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to lead the development of our Affected Others service, supporting children, young people (CYP), and families impacted by familial substance misuse. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and grow a service that makes a real difference in breaking cycles of harm and building resilience.
Where: Buckinghamshire (Countywide)
Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week
Full Time Salary Range: £32,002.35- £34,214.20*
*Please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
Responsibilities
About the Role
As the lead for this specialist area, you will:
- Drive the design and delivery of innovative interventions for children, young people and families affected by substance misuse.
- Develop group programmes, resources, and training to strengthen whole-family approaches.
- Build strong partnerships with key stakeholder such as adult substance misuse services, schools, children’s services, and health professionals to ensure seamless referral pathways.
- Develop and deliver training and consultation to external partners and stakeholders on the issues facing young people affected by substance misuse of others.
- Champion safeguarding and best practice across the service.
- Hold a caseload of complex and high-risk cases involving children, young people, and families, delivering whole-family support, including parenting programmes and harm reduction strategies.
- Monitor and evaluate service impact, ensuring continuous improvement.
About You
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Experienced in working with families facing multiple risk factors, including parental substance misuse.
- Skilled in delivering 1:1 and group interventions and developing new programmes.
- Knowledgeable about safeguarding and child protection procedures.
- Qualified to Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent).
- A strong communicator and collaborator, able to influence and lead within multi-agency settings.
- You will need to work flexibly countywide across Buckinghamshire so must hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car.
What we Offer
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- Opportunity to lead and shape a vital service alongside a friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme.
Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.
Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
CGL points 28 to 30 (£32,002.35 - £34,214.20)
ILW / OLW /Fringe
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
Closing Date
19/2/2026
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
Registered Charity
501 - 1000
Our mission is to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
Thank you!
Overview
Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
Are you passionate about supporting young people and shaping education-based interventions? We are looking for a Senior Practitioner – Education & Partnerships to lead strategic engagement with schools, colleges, and community partners across Buckinghamshire. This is a unique opportunity to combine frontline expertise with leadership in developing targeted education programmes and partnership work.
Where: Buckinghamshire (Countywide)
Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week
Full Time Salary Range: £32,002.35- £34,214.20*
*Please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a practice lead within our Children & Young People’s Service, working with young people with complex needs.
- Drive the development and delivery of substance misuse prevention and early intervention programmes in educational settings.
- Build strong relationships with schools, PRUs, youth services, and voluntary organisations.
- Represent the service at education forums, safeguarding panels, and partnership boards.
- Line manage the Targeted Intervention Coordinator and oversee the Youth Ambassadors programme.
- Provide training and consultation to professionals on issues facing young people around substance misuse.
- Deliver high-quality interventions for young people with complex needs, including assessments, care planning, and psychosocial support.
- Lead education-focused initiatives such as targeted ter 2 workshops and interventions.
- Develop resources and toolkits for schools and youth settings.
- Ensure accurate data collection and reporting for educational interventions.
- Support the Team Leader with case management, audits, and service development.
- Champion safeguarding and trauma-informed practice across all activities.
About You
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Experienced in multi-agency working and building strong partnerships.
- Knowledgeable about young people’s substance misuse, safeguarding, and harm reduction.
- Skilled in delivering education programmes and managing staff or volunteers.
- Qualified to Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent).
- You will need to work flexibly countywide across Buckinghamshire so must hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car.
What we Offer
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- Opportunity to lead and shape a vital service alongside a friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme.
Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.
Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.
Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
CGL points 28 to 30 (£32,002.35 - £34,214.20)
ILW / OLW /Fringe
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
Closing Date
19/2/2026
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
Registered Charity
501 - 1000
Our mission is to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.