Prevention & Wellbeing Coordinator

LBB; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

31 days annual leave

LGPS pension

Flexible working policy

Discounts from retailers

Cycle to work

Eye care vouchers

Travel and gym membership

Training and development

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Barnet Council seeks a role focusing on improving health and wellbeing for adults with disabilities, long-term illness, and their families. You will work across Barnet to build partnerships, promote inclusive opportunities and reduce crisis-driven demand on adult social care.

You will travel to various community locations, engage with residents at home when needed, and collaborate with voluntary and statutory bodies. A flexible, hybrid working approach supports work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable adults in the community.
• Willingness and ability to travel across Barnet and work alone in residents' homes.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills to build partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Develop partnerships with individuals, families and community organisations.
• Promote opportunities for contribution and build an inclusive community.
• Engage across sectors to improve health and wellbeing of residents.

Skills

Vulnerable adults support

Travel across Barnet

Time management

Communication & negotiation

Job description

Important Information for Current Barnet Council Employees Where possible, employees who have access to Oracle are encouraged to apply via the Opportunity Marketplace (Internal Career Site). This helps to ensure applications are correctly identified as internal and avoids potential delays during the recruitment process.

About Barnet Council

Barnet is a borough with much to be proud of. Our excellent schools, vibrant town centres, vast green spaces and diverse communities all help make it a great place to live and work. As a council we want to build on these strengths as we move into the future. We are growing and developing as an organisation to meet the challenges facing our borough and we are committed to working with partner organisations and residents to make Barnet even better. As an organisation, our staff are committed to Our Values: Learning to Improve, Caring, Inclusive, Collaborative – which drive everything we do.

About the role

You will work alongside adults of all ages with disabilities, long term illnesses, mental health illness, sensory impairments, older people and their families with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of the individuals and their communities, helping to reduce demand on adult social care and preventing people from reaching crisis and their needs from escalating.

You will develop partnerships with individuals, families, local organisations and the broader community to promote more opportunities for contribution and build a more inclusive community.

Your approach will establish and develop key working relationships and engagement across a range of sectors and communities. Promoting the principle of shared responsibility in the development and delivery of initiatives that improve health and wellbeing of Barnet residents, between individuals, families, community partners and voluntary and statutory bodies.

About you

• Experience of working with vulnerable adults, supporting them to be as independent as possible with insight into difficulties that can be faced by people with escalating or established needs and their families in the wider community
• Confident in working in different community locations, including lone working, visiting residents at home - working all over Barnet and able to travel.
• Able to manage a variety of tasks and competing priorities, manage time and work independently
• Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills to build and nurture relationships and partnership

What we offer

• 31 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme , which provides a valuable guaranteed income in your retirement together with security for your dependents
• A comprehensive Flexible Working Policy which supports work-life balance by empowering staff and management to make decisions around when, where, and how work is done
• A vast range of lifestyle discounts from major retailers, supermarkets, energy suppliers and more
• Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Employee well- being training programs including confidential employee assistance

Interviews are planned to take place week commencing 30th November 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful tool to support your application as a reasonable adjustment, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn, escalated to counter Fraud for further investigation and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Barnet Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Barnet operates stringent safer recruitment procedures, this may include AI Detection Screening, Biometric ID/Right to Work Checks, Qualification and Registration Checks, Up to 6 years of Employment Data and Insights to Accelerate Screening (Konfir), Up to 5 years of Employment History References, DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Checks, Credit Checks and Social Media, Sanctions and Occupational Health Screening.

To deliver Barnet Council’s commitment to equality of opportunity in the provision of services, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers. As such we value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Barnet Council embraces all forms of flexible working (including part-time, compressed hours, and hybrid working) and is committed to offering employees a healthy work-life balance. Candidates are encouraged to talk about relevant requirements and preferences at interview. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Barnet Council is a Disability Confident Committed Employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme, further details are available at www.gov.uk/access-to-work/apply

All posts with the council are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the council satisfaction your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close vacancies before the stated closing date if sufficient number of applications are received.

Should you not hear from us within four working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.