Bryson Charitable Group Hiring for Healthy Futures – Cookery Mentors Job at Belfast, Northern Ireland , UK Full Time

Bryson Care Healthy Futures

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Healthy Futures Cookery Mentor

RESPONSIBLE TO: PROJECT MANAGER

LOCATION: BELFAST/LISBURN/NEWTOWNABBEY

MAIN TASK

Bryson Care’s ‘Healthy Futures’ Home and Community Based Service aims to increase the skills of parents/caregivers and individuals to enable healthier lifestyles. The main aim is to support and enable mentoring of new skills for up to 6 weeks, to enhance a healthier future. Our focus is to work with parents/caregivers and individuals to overcome the stresses that are impacting daily and affecting their ability to create new approaches in their lives, intervention will be up to 6 weeks. The support will be delivered in relation to nutrition, cooking, healthy lunch boxes or crisis intervention to address other areas that the parent/caregiver/individual may have raised that is causing stress.

Parents/Caregivers/Individuals

• Develop a positive relationship with Service Users which promotes confidence and builds self esteem
• Discuss the stresses that the service user is experiencing
• Discuss the impact of the stresses that the service user is experiencing and offer appropriate guidance
• Establish a plan in partnership with service user as to what changes need to be made and how these changes will be achieved
• Encourage social contact to decrease social isolation (i.e., appointment keeping, community events etc)
• Discuss any external barriers which, may be impacting on the service user’s life and offer appropriate support by accompanying or signposting to other local community resources and services

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Salary: £12.44 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location