Main Purpose of the job:
The purpose of the Work and Heath Coach role is to provide personalised coaching and support to people who have signed up to WorkWell service within Lewisham Works. This support aims to empower participants take steps towards returning to work, or to stay in work, while managing a physical or mental health condition.
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Summary of Responsibilities and Personal Duties:
The main duty of the role is to provide one-to-one personalised wellbeing and employability coaching and support to Lewisham residents on the Lewisham Works WorkWell programme participants.
Appointments are delivered face-to-face, online, or via telephone and could involve:
Assessing a persons employability and wellbeing, using such tools as the EQ5DL
Creating personalised action plans with participants,
Providing referrals and/or signposting to other suitable support services,
Providing health and wellbeing advice,
Providing career guidance,
Offering employment advice (e.g. CVs, job search, interview techniques),
Helping participants identify workplace adjustments to support health needs,
Carrying out health and wellbeing assessments.
You will be responsible for managing your own caseload of participants to meet performance targets and service level agreements of the WorkWell programme.
Additional tasks
Working closely with primary care and other health partners to support the integration of employment support into health services. This will include working from within partner settings autonomously and contributing ideas to the ongoing development of this integration.
Building relationships with other services to enable cross referrals that will support residents to maintain employment and wellbeing.
Maintaining up to date information and resources to support residents wellbeing and employability.
This role is part of the Lewisham Works service and the health and work coach must keep abreast of developments in the wider service and external employability landscape to ensure an effective system of support for residents.
Generic responsibilities
To represent the Council at meetings and events to promote employment and skills support
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