Live Well Wakefield Service Coordinator

We’ve got a brilliant opportunity available in the award-winning Live Well Wakefield team, as a Service Coordinator. If you’re passionate about helping local people to improve their health and wellbeing through personalised care initiatives, this is the role for you!

Live Well Wakefield is an established social prescribing and self-management service, offering person-centred advice to adults across the Wakefield District so they can access an extensive range of non-medical local options to improve their health, wellbeing, and independence.

You’ll be supporting a brilliant service, but also be part of a great team. In our latest staff survey, 100% of the team told us they enjoy working at Live Well Wakefield.

What does a Service Coordinator do?

• Coordinators work closely with colleagues across primary care, voluntary and community organisations and statutory services, to build effective working relationships in order to promote and develop Live Well Wakefield and local provision. So excellent communication and relationship building skills are essential!
• They are responsible for line management of a number of Social Prescribing Advisors and Link Workers, ensuring those colleagues are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and supervision necessary to allow them to succeed in, and enjoy their roles.
• Coordinators also act as a specialist advisor to colleagues, offering social prescribing, and risk management advice to ensure our clients receive the best standard of care.
• They support the planning of team workloads, and ensure effective caseload management, whilst ensuring operational strategies are in place, and reviewed regularly to support service delivery and development. This is a great opportunity to exercise creativity in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating new and existing workstreams.

What are we looking for in our Service Coordinator?

• A skilled, organised and solution-focused person
• Management, leadership or supervisory experience
• Experience of undertaking direct work with communities of interest, individuals, or groups to help improve health and wellbeing
• Experience of planning, delivering, monitoring and evaluating workstreams
• Understanding of current health and social care issues
• Ability to engage with and motivate others
• Access to own vehicle and ability to regularly travel across the Wakefield District

Due to the key role of Live Well Wakefield in providing social prescribing and supported self-management services across the Wakefield District, and the continuing growth of the service, it is essential you are able to demonstrate ability to work under your own initiative and be able to adapt quickly to change.

Take a look at the full Person Specification below for more details and if you feel you are the right person, we’d love to hear from you! We value personal qualities and experience as well as work experience.

What do we offer?

“I've not worked anywhere as supportive as Live Well” – from our recent staff survey

You’ll benefit from a competitive salary, 28 days a holiday a year (plus bank holidays), and some great benefits including:

• 5% salary contribution to a pension scheme
• Access to Occupational Health
• Blue Light Card
• Access to health service discount schemes
• A range of policies and practices to ensure a supportive and inclusive workplace
• Annual pay reviews
• A mix of agile and office based working

Due to the nature of the position, we will require the successful candidate to complete an Enhanced DBS check.

This post is fixed term until August 2025, to cover maternity leave.

We are an equal opportunities organisation and invite applications from all sections of the community. It’s important to us that everyone is welcomed and valued in our workplace, so we support staff and applicants in a number of ways. More information can be found on our website and in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement.

To apply, download the Application Form above. Complete and return to jobs@nova-wd.org.uk.

Closing date: Sunday 19 May at 5pm

Interview date: Interviews are currently planned for Tuesday 28 May