Well-being Wednesday Coordinator - Remuneration available

We wish to expand on our Wellbeing Wednesday project and are looking for someone to organise and run the sessions. This involves preparing and attending the sessions in church on a Wednesday and it is possible the session will run on some Fridays as well. We do have volunteers to help and will be looking for more.

We will have the Samaritans running their outreach hub during the sessions to offer specialist assistance. We provide games such as bingo, kurling, skittles, connect, monopoly and resources for crafts.

If you have a desire to make people feel at ease and able to open up with any problems they may have, or just to chat and perhaps signpost them to other organisations who can help them, then this opportunity could be for you. It may be that those who come in are lonely and just want somewhere to go where they feel welcome and so being able to communicate well would be a great asset.

JOB DESCRIPTION BELOW :

Well-being Wednesday Coordinator (Job Description)

We are looking for an enthusiastic, pro-active person to help co-ordinate our support our wellbeing Wednesday drop ins which run each week from September to end February 2025. 

Well-being Wednesdays provide a welcoming, and safe, space for all with the aim of promoting positive mental health which includes many aspects such as connecting with others, perhaps being silent and sitting with a book & a cup of tea, engaging in co-creating art, craft activities, playing board games and so on. It’s a space of mutual support and hospitality with people from all walks of life coming together and finding common ground. Well-being Wednesday also offers signposting to specialist help and partner organisations and often welcoming agencies such as the Samaritans who support the project. The joy of well-being Wednesday is that everyone mutually benefits from positive interaction.

The role of the Well-Being coordinator is:

·      To oversee the space on a weekly basis (session runs from 10.30-2.30pm)

·      To proactively can engage with people from all walks of life, to show hospitality and welcome

·      To coordinate the weekly crafts & activities

·      To liaise with our local partners (such as the Samaritans and Open Mental Health)

·      To liaise with the volunteers and where possible, along with the vicar & Parochial Church Council recruit new volunteers with a view to developing the team.

·      To uphold, promote and adhere to good safeguarding practise, as set out in our safeguarding policy, for the flourishing of all.

·      To promote Well-being Wednesday sessions locally via social media (fb, X etc.) and other means (GP surgeries etc)

·      To liaise with the Vicar and PCC (as the project sits within the wider vision of the church to help the community thrive.)

Qualities needed for this role

·      Compassion for others

·      Confidence

·      Good organisational skills

·      Ability to listen well holding confidentiality (in line with our safeguarding policy)

·      A team player

·      Ability to think creatively

·      Ability to engage with people from all walks of life.

·      Previous experience of this type of work is an advantage

Appropriate training courses such as mental health first / dementia training etc. can be undertaken.

The role requires 5 hours on a Wednesday (including set-up/pack down and the session itself). In addition we have funding for a further 3 hours per week for another session and planning.  The hourly rate is £15.