Community Health and Wellbeing Worker

Community Health and Wellbeing Worker (CHWW)
Location: Bideford, with travel around the area (candidates must be living within 10 miles of Bideford)
Salary: £22,932 per annum pro-rata
Hours: 24 per week (Mon - Thu) with occasional evening work
Contract: Fixed term contract until end of September 2027
Travel: Ability to travel around the area is essential

Are you ready for exciting opportunity to help shape a new project at the British Red Cross?

Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWW) are local people who care about the health of their community and those around them.

The outreach work of the CHWW team is essential in addressing the rising inequities in health and social care and in identifying unmet need in the community. The CHWW performs a variety of duties with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve.

We are looking for a special team member who will be supporting communities in Bideford.

These include:

  • Educational: delivering targeted health promotion, helping residents understand medical advice, highlighting digital exclusion, linking them to support.
  • Navigational: helping to use referring patients to the healthcare system to access appropriate local services, acting as right care ambassador.
  • Support: through proactive relationships, building trust, advocacy and allyship, counselling and motivation via health coaching, as well as means of tackling social inclusion and loneliness.
  • Research and Intelligence: providing information to the community on contextual safeguarding, asset mapping, gathering intelligence for needs assessments.

CHWWs play a significant role in increasing health promotion, through a range of activities including outreach assessments, raising awareness, community education, signposting, informal counselling, and support.

Their bridging role between health, social care, housing and voluntary sector services helps to remove barriers and improve access. CHWWs are positive role models and provide advice and signposting to people living in their own communities, to enable them to make positive choices around health and wellbeing.

A day in the life of a CHWW will involve:  

  • Building relationships and sustain them across a community.
  • Supporting service users from a diverse range of backgrounds and adapting approach accordingly.
  • Working with different service providers to achieve outcomes.
  • Delivering high quality services to the public.
  • Communicating effectively and build trust with multiple audiences, including health and social care professionals and members of the public. 
  • Knowledge of the local community: its demographics, culture, local services and resources 

To be a successful CHWW, you'll need: 

  • Strong communication skills.
  • Knowledge of the local community: its demographics, culture, local services and resources 
  • The ability to be self-aware, sensitive and relate to a diverse range of people.
  • Commitment to advocate for social changes that promote the health and well-being of the local community. 
  • Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.
  • Able to plan own workload.
  • To be IT literate with Microsoft 365.
  • Ability to travel around the area is essential.

Further information about this exciting opportunity and the CHWW principles can be found at https://napc.co.uk/chww/

https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-help/community-health-and-wellbeing-worker-model

For further information regarding this role please contact NikkiFuller@redcross.org.uk
 
Interested? The closing date for applications is 23.59 on Thursday 19th March 2026.

In return for your commitment and expertise, you’ll get:
  • Holidays: 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + option to buy 5 extra days.
  • Pension scheme: Up to 6% contributory pension.
  • Flexible working: We do our best to accommodate your preferred work style.
  • Learning & Development: Wide range of career opportunities + comprehensive learning.
  • Discounts: Access to Blue Light Discount Card and employee benefits platform.
  • Wellbeing Support: Access to mental health and wellbeing assistance.
  • Team Working: Support our mission in a collaborative team.
  • Cycle2Work: Lease a bicycle through the scheme.
  • Season ticket loan: Interest-free loan for commuting expenses.
We are dedicated to building an inclusive, equitable and wellbeing‑focused culture where everyone feels safe, valued and can thrive. Guided by our Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing Strategy, we foster belonging, psychological and physical wellbeing, and work to remove barriers to fair opportunities. Grounded in compassion and anti‑racist practice, we listen to diverse voices, value lived experience and create environments where staff and volunteers can succeed. Join us and be part of an organisation that leads with care, celebrates difference and helps everyone succeed.

Together, we are the world's emergency responders
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