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Avaliable Job Today Job Title: Wellbeing Worker (female) x2

Salary: £23,194 pro-rata

Hours: 28 hours per week (12-month fixed term contract)

Employed by: Roshni Ghar

Responsible to: Service Manager

Location: Roshni Ghar

Closing Date: 4pm, 7thApril 2023

Interview date: TBC

Disclosure: The successful applicant will be required to have an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (Working with Vulnerable Adults and children)

Exemption: We are claiming an exemption in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.

Background info:

Roshni Ghar provides culturally appropriate mental health & wellbeing support to predominately south Asian women and girls in the Airedale area of Bradford Metropolitan District.

We utilise a service user informed approach that promotes recovery, well-being through participation, inclusion and choice. We help to tackle inequalities and promote equality and diversity in partner organisations.

We strive to continuously adapt and improve services to ensure they continue to meet the needs of the community served.

Our core services include:

We provide culturally and spiritually sensitive support for South Asian women experiencing mental and emotional distress, empowering them to engage more responsively with mainstream and other relevant services where they may experience barriers. We do this through 1:1 key working, group work and peer group support. Promoting a better understanding of mental distress, mental health promotion and illness prevention, signposting and working with other services to promote the equality and diversity agenda.

We encourage social inclusion and promote access to educational and vocational opportunities by providing a safe space for women to explore issues relevant to their mental health and well-being.

Please Note:

The following information is furnished to assist staff joining Roshni Ghar to understand and appreciate the work content of their post and the role they are to play in the organisation. However, the following points should be noted.

Prime objective of the post.

• The Wellbeing Worker’s role is to help and support women from the South Asian community who are experiencing mental ill health, or at risk of developing mental illness.
• To offer emotional and wellbeing support programs to South Asian women experiencing mental ill health, in and around Keighley. To plan and co-ordinate a range of therapeutic activities for service users at Roshni Ghar and in community settings.
• To offer 1:1 and group support to service users as part of the mental health recovery.
• To deliver mental health and wellbeing awareness sessions using a holistic approach to women from the south Asian community who are experiencing mental ill health, or at risk of developing mental illness.
• diagnosed with mental ill health.
• To plan, co-ordinate and deliver mental health & wellbeing support at Roshni and in other community settings across Keighley.
• To work in ways to promote the inclusion and participation of service users in the various groups and sessions held at Roshni Ghar.
• To promote and enhance the quality-of-service provision for women who access support from Roshni Ghar
• Make links with and develop partnerships with other organisations that offer appropriate cultural and spiritual support services to South Asian women.
• Encourage and foster greater involvement of women from the South Asian community living with mental distress in the planning, development and strategic forums thus contributing to creation of appropriate services.
• Develop inter-agencies relationships between established local statutory, community and voluntary sector organisations to look at ways of supporting individuals living with mental ill health; and to help improve health and social well-being of women from the South Asian community living with mental ill health.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Good understanding of symptoms of mental illness and awareness of appropriate therapeutic approaches available
• Awareness of specific health issues affecting south Asian women
• Awareness of boundaries applied to working with south Asian women
• Familiar with safeguarding protocols and legislation and understand the importance of keeping women safe. Report any safeguarding issues to the Manager.
• carry out outreach work whenever necessary. And to be available to work flexible hours as and when required, including occasional weekends and evenings.
• Promote positive mental health & wellbeing
• Highlight issue of - and links between poverty and poor health
• Good understanding of acute, primary, secondary and social care health services
• Knowledge of local statutory and voluntary sector service provision
• Knowledge of the local area and the needs of the local population.
• Knowledge and awareness of contributing factors of mental ill health
• Knowledge of the mental health recovery model and self-care pathways

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities

• To plan and co-ordinate your own work within the context of an organisational and multi-agency-based strategy.
• Regular monitoring reports will need to be submitted to the Manager for evaluation purposes.
• You will be required to help, support and supervise volunteers.
• Attend individual supervision in line with the requirements of the service

Range of decision making:

• Day to day decisions relating to post holder’s work.
• Responsibility for assets, material and any resources used
• To responsible for the management of any equipment and transport used by the project.
• To be responsible for confidential materials and information.
• Support integrated working, focusing on early intervention, recovery support and prevention work with a range of partners to develop shared responses.
• To organise and co-ordinate therapeutic activities, encourage and support women to participate in the activities, both at Roshni Ghar and in community settings.
• To inform women about support systems and networks available to them and how to access them.

Challenging Discrimination:

• To challenge stigma around mental health and encourage women to seek help and support at the earliest opportunity.
• Promote good working practice, to work in a non-discriminatory, actively promoting anti discriminatory practices in relation to clients and colleagues in all aspects of your work.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• A relevant experience/qualification
• Deliver Mental Health and wellbeing awareness sessions using a holistic approach.
• To plan and deliver mental health support groups at Roshni and in other community settings.
• Willing to work flexible hours, including evenings and/or weekends
• Experience of outreach & community development work
• Experience of working with south Asian women
• At least 1 year’s recent experience of working with groups of people in a community setting
• Good interpersonal, organisational and IT skills (word, excel, email).
• Able to build effective working relationships with a wide range of professionals
• Ability to manage caseload
• Prioritise your own work and develop a schedule that works for the varied needs of the different people you will be supporting.
• Support the development of the wellbeing projects focusing on self-care models and to stamp out stigma
• Increasing access to coping strategies and improving mental wellbeing
• An ability to motivate, encourage and support individuals with differing needs, including volunteers
• Developing self-help, self-care, relapse prevention and early intervention models to enable South Asian women to manage situations of distress and concern.
• Collate information that will enable the outcomes of the project to be monitored and evaluated.
• Adhere to Roshni Ghar policies, procedure, protocols and codes of conduct in all aspects of your work.

Personnel Specification: Wellbeing Worker

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Desirable

1.

Educated to degree level/or a relevant professional

recognized qualification in Mental Health/or Substantial relevant work experience.

X

2.

Evidence of a minimum of 2 year’s paid/unpaid experience in:

• Community work around helping and supporting vulnerable people in various settings.
• Providing 1:1 support to vulnerable women from the South Asian community.
• Supporting South Asian women to improve their mental health & wellbeing.

X

3.

An understanding of the needs of (South Asian) women affected by mental illness.

X

4.

Good Communication skills:

• written and spoken English.
• good listening skills.
• proficient in ICT
• good listening skills
• fluent in Urdu/Punjabi or Bangla

X

5.

Familiar with policies and procedures:

• confidentiality
• safeguarding
• health & safety
• equality and diversity
• mental health act
• data protection

X

6.

Experience of outreach work and community development

X

7.

Knowledge and understanding of spiritual and cultural needs of women from the South Asian community.

X

8.

Working knowledge of mental health support services

X

9.

Good time management.

X

10.

Teamwork ethic

X

11.

Understanding of mental health & wellbeing & contributing factors of mental ill health

X

12.

Experience of writing case notes, reports and recording data for evaluating and monitoring purposes

X

13.

Experience of planning and delivering group work

X

14.

Understanding of self-care

X

15.

Willing to work unsociable hours

X

16.

Experiencing of using databases to record information

x

Please Note:

Whilst every endeavour has been made to outline all the duties and responsibilities of the post, every item may not be specified in detail, therefore, staff should not refuse to undertake work, which is not specified on this form, but they should record any additional duties they are required to perform, these will be taken into account when the post is reviewed.

Note to Applicant: When completing your application form, you should demonstrate/evidence the extent to which you have the necessary education, skills, knowledge and experience as required by the application criteria for this post.

Roshni Ghar reserves the right to only short-list those applicants who can clearly demonstrate by providing personal and specific examples of the listed criteria:

One or all of these desirable criteria may be used to shortlist applicants.

Applicants must have, as at the closing date for receipt of application forms:

Important

Please read the questions carefully and provide full and clear detailed answers to each of the questions.

Vetting:

Appointment to this post is subject to a successful DBS check, applicant declaring all pending prosecutions, convictions, cautions and bind-over orders and their name will be submitted for a DBS check to be carried out.

References:

Appointment is also subject to the return of complete and satisfied references obtained from previous, or present employers.

Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 28 per week

Salary: £23,194.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Keighley, West Yorkshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• A-Level or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:

• Mental health and wellbeing: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 07/04/2023
Reference ID: wellbeing worker x2
Expected start date: 24/04/2023