Wellbeing Advisor

Title: Wellbeing Advisor - The Dials, Hinckley

Hours: 12 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary: Up to £8,191 (depending on experience) plus excellent benefits

Location: Hybrid with frequent travel to The Dials in Hinckley

Are you outgoing, friendly and approachable? Have you got experience of working within a health or social care environment?

Do you enjoy supporting people with their wellbeing?

If you can answer yes, we would really love to hear from you!

The role:

Anchor are looking for a Wellbeing Advisor to provide a person-centered Wellbeing Service to our customers. Working as part of a team, you will ensure that each individuals needs are met while maintaining and tracking Wellbeing records.

Key activities will include:

• Arranging and facilitating drop-in sessions for individuals and groups to cover a variety of topics such as, health & fitness advice, talks about wellness / depression, end of life, dementia, health & nutrition.
• Facilitate low level exercise or organise clubs for example walking club, seated exercises or Pilates (to name just a few!)
• Hold regular (monthly) drop in clinics
• Signpost customers to internal and external parties such as gym, welfare advice.
• Liaising with external agencies in promoting wellness for customers i.e. physios / chiropodists / eye tests / OTs / District Nurses / public health and external funded charities.
• Undertake regular non-invasive procedures such as BMI checks in line with agreed policy.
• Determine the best intervention pathway mechanisms within the NHS trusts, so that there is appropriate liaison within agreed protocols
• General administration.

About you:

To be successful in this role you will have:

• OCR Level 2 Certificate in teaching exercise and fitness is desirable
• First Aid at work certificate (training will be provided if not currently held).
• REPS 3 instructor including two of the following: Exercise to music or equivalent, Gym Instructor award, Personal Training award or degree.
• Basic food hygiene

It would be great if you also have experience of:

• Working in a health & wellbeing or social care environment
• Experience of working with older people (desirable)
• Delivering exercise classes and workshops (desirable)
• Delivering Health Assessments and Exercise prescription (desirable)
• Developing personal exercise and diet plans (desirable)
• The ability to engage hard to reach communities
• Be able to create community cohesion with diverse groups of people.

We believe that later life is for living.

Helping people enjoy later life is our passion. It has been for nearly 60 years. And today, in an ageing society, our housing, care and support is needed more than ever.

As England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, we’re committed to creating choice and opportunity for everyone. We put our customers at the heart of everything we do, listening carefully and shaping our homes and services around them.

And we’re proudly not-for-profit, which means every penny we make is reinvested into our properties and services, building more and innovating for the future so that people can have a home where they love living in later life.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated rewards website  

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.