Wellbeing Worker at Lunch Positive

Lunch Positive is a Brighton based charity supporting people living with HIV. We provide community-based services in Brighton & Hove and other areas of Sussex, where everyone is valued, supported and empowered to overcome the challenges they experience of living with HIV.
Our services reach and support people who experience health inequalities, complex needs, and often multiple disadvantages in life. We improve the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV, helping people to live healthy, happy and fulfilled lives.

We are recruiting for a part-time Wellbeing Worker.
Reporting to Charity Director
Days of work are Tuesdays and Fridays, with some occasional need to work other days including Saturday
Hours total 12.5 each week, specific hours for relevant working days by arrangement in advance
Salary £11,700 per annum (full time equivalent salary is £35,100)
Location – Brighton & Hove, with occasional work in wider areas of Sussex
Holiday entitlement 8.4 days per annum (5.6 weeks equivalent pro-rata) which
may include bank or other statutory holidays
Satisfactory DBS certificate at enhanced level is a condition of employment

The role:
This new role has been created to support people using Lunch Positive services in Brighton & Hove, response to greater complexity of service user support needs, and to enable development of our capacity to reach and support people who experience barriers to engagement. The wellbeing worker will have a key role in providing 1-1 support to our service users and will coordinate volunteers to undertake their varying
roles in supporting service users. The Wellbeing Worker will have responsibilities within the Tuesday Drop-in and Friday Lunch Club, wraparound projects or support activities including befriending and social prescribing.
Typical duties include:
Referrals coordination and administration: receive enquiries and referrals from nursing and clinical teams, partner voluntary sector organisations and self- referrals. Communicate, plan, and follow up introduction of people referred to our services. Establish, develop and maintain strong relationships with referrers.
HIV Lunch Club, Drop-In, and social groups: welcome new service users to groups, with a strong focus on helping people settle in and engage where this is needed. Undertake needs assessments and new membership administration.
Working with the Charity Director, coordinate and support volunteers to engage and support members within these services.
In-house befriending scheme (Brighton & Hove): undertake initial needs assessments with interested scheme members, including occasional home visits and risk assessment. Induct and train befriender volunteers, support the scheme member and volunteer befriending match, undertake follow up progress
conversations with scheme members and volunteers.
Social prescribing: working with the Charity Director, help coordinate, administrate and support a newly introduced social prescribing offer within the Friday Lunch Club and Tuesday Drop-in.
Wellbeing projects: support the delivery and development of community based wellbeing activities, workshops, talks etc. underpinned by service user involvement and co-design