Community Health and Wellbeing Worker

As a community health and wellbeing worker (CHWW) you will be working in and understand your local community. The outreach work of a CHWW is essential in helping to address the rising inequities in health and social care and in identifying unmet need in your community. The CHWW will help provide a bridge between community, health and care as well as supporting people to access the right services for them.

The CHWW will need to build long-term trusted relationships with a range of householders (pre-identified). You will develop consistent relationships with people in the households identified with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of each of the individuals you work with. It is an innovative way of working that will rely on passion and personality to support certain households in a set area.

As a CHWW, you will have a level of self-confidence and personal robustness to enable you to work with the community, and to help people overcome their barriers with a coaching approach. You will have insight into the challenges that people can face, which might come from personal lived experience, from volunteering or from other employment. You will maintain a culture of inclusivity and learn to work in a trauma informed way.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in collaboration with organisations across the voluntary sector and health sector, focusing on what matters to people and empowering them to find local solutions, whilst shaping a new role to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.