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1 x 1.0 FTE Link Worker – Bolsover and Chesterfield
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge where you can make a genuine difference to the lives of children and young people?
If you are an enthusiastic, self-motivated support worker, whose passion is to inspire and empower children and young people, we have just the challenge for you.
Derbyshire Voluntary Action and Chesterfield Football Club Community Trust have been working in partnership since April 2021 to develop social prescribing for young people in Chesterfield.
Thanks to new support from Derbyshire Community Healthcare Services and North Hardwick and Bolsover Primary Care Network, the partners are now looking to extend the initial pilot project through to March 2023, and expand their team of link workers to provide even more community-based support for 11-18 year-olds (up to 25 with EHCP).
Employed by Chesterfield Football Club Community Trust and based at the Technique Stadium’s Community Hub, you’ll adopt an holistic, person-centred approach to your caseload, co-designing action plans to improve wellbeing and health, based on ‘what matters’ to young people and their individual strengths and needs – and supporting them to achieve their goals.
Ideally you will have worked in a supportive role with young people before and will have a great understanding of the many and complex challenges young people are currently experiencing.
This pilot project is until March 2023 and will test the success of a social prescribing approach with 11-18 year-olds in Bolsover and Chesterfield. The post is subject to an enhanced level DBS check.
For an informal discussion, please contact Jo Bowman, Social Prescribing Project Manager, Chesterfield Football Club Community Trust on 07756 985356.
Closing date: Friday, June 17, 2022, 10am
Interviews scheduled to be held on the morning of Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Start date: TBC
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