Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

As a key member of the Senior Management Team, the Health and Wellbeing Coordinator will take responsibility for establishing and managing the quality and effectiveness of all health and wellbeing services at Brooke House.

The Health and Wellbeing Coordinator   will   have   management responsibility for practitioners operating in the health and wellbeing function. Reporting to the Chief Executive and Project Director, the Health and Wellbeing Coordinator will represent the Ely Centre as a credible ambassador, developing and managing necessary relationships with key stakeholders.

The Ely Centre is committed to serving innocent victims and survivors, ex-service personnel, their families, and carers, by providing evidenced based outcome focused treatments, prevention and support services that address issues of declining psychological and physical health, and social and financial difficulties arising as a result of terrorism.

The key elements that constitute the role of the Health and Wellbeing Coordinator for the Brooke House Project are as follows:

Management of Brooke House Health and Wellbeing Services

• Provide outcomes based monitoring and evaluation of all Health and Wellbeing services.
• Provide coordination and line management of practitioners delivering individual /group psychological counselling and pain management services.
• Develop and coordinate the Health and Wellbeing Referral Partner network.
• Responsible for the clinical governance arrangements internal to the Brooke House Project and oversee the clinical governance within the organisation.
• Lead  the  development  and  delivery  of  a  Health and Well Being support  service  to  project target groups.
• Commission support or services to meet assessed needs through Service Level Agreements and contracts with a range of statutory, voluntary and community sector providers.
• Liaise directly with all key stakeholders.
• Undertake any other duties on behalf of the Project as assigned by the Chief Executive Officer
• To exercise a key leadership role in positioning The Ely Centre’s Brooke House Project as a leading provider in the provision of health and wellbeing services to ex-security force personnel.
• To lead and support the effective management of outcomes based monitoring and evaluation of Family Retreat Programme, Respite Programmes, and Health and Wellbeing services.
• Assist the project board in the development and delivery of a visionary project supporting ex security force personnel and their families who have been injured as a result of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

Leadership

• Work closely with the Project Director to collectively meet the Business Plan target of Brooke House.
• Provide effective professional leadership in delivering the strategic and business plans.
• Demonstrate an inclusive style of leadership which motivates staff, develops commitment, encourages innovation and builds positive relationships with stakeholders, clients and individuals.
• Demonstrate a high level of personal integrity and maintain professional standards throughout the organisation.

Communication and Engagement

• Provide effective and timely advice and information to the Chief Executive Officer, the Board, other members of the Senior Management Team, partner groups and all relevant stakeholders.
• Provide support for plans and programmes and demonstrate the ability to problem solve innovatively
• Contribute to the development of effective working relationships with other bodies exercising functions relating to the target groups.
• Establish good working relationships and effective communication with partner groups and all relevant stakeholders.
• The main focus of this relationship will be to promote the delivery of health and wellbeing services to injured security force personnel.

Policy and Strategy

• To ensure the Ely Centre and the Brooke House Project exercise a position of authority and expertise in issues facing innocent victims and security force personnel with a wide range of audiences. 
• Support the Chief Executive Officer and the Board, for business planning purposes, ensuring that the outcomes contained within the plans align to statutory priorities.

Personal Development, Performance and Professionalism

• Endeavour to ensure the ongoing confidence of Ely Centre stakeholders, maintaining high standards of personal accountability.
• Develop interpersonal skills and self-motivation required to facilitate liaison with practitioners and management within the organisation.
• Work outside standard business hours (9am-5pm) may be required on occasion: the successful candidate will therefore need to be flexible in terms of availability.
• Additional duties, appropriate to the grade, at the request of management may be allocated.

Experience

• A proven track record of developing, contracting and managing Health and Well Being service, partnership working, project planning and implementation.
• A strong track record in Clinical Management and Governance.
• Demonstrate ability of strategic and operational planning, KPI setting, risk management, performance monitoring and evaluation.