Level 3 Community Health and Wellbeing Worker Apprenticeship

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Overview:

Community Health and Wellbeing Workers are a rapidly expanding workforce supporting the increasing emphasis across government departments on improving the health of local people and communities by preventing poor health and tackling inequalities. Their work is informed by the wider social determinants of health, such as the social, cultural, political, economic, commercial and environmental factors that shape the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.

The broad purpose of the occupation is to work in partnership with individuals and their communities to identify and address health and wellbeing needs, improve health, prevent ill-health and reduce inequalities. To do this, Community Health and Wellbeing Workers need to:

  • address the causes of poor health and wellbeing in the broadest sense (causes of the causes). They do this by taking an holistic ‘whole person’ approach regarding physical, mental, emotional and social health and wellbeing and resilience.
  • work with individuals, groups and communities to identify what matters to them, building on their strengths to improve health and wellbeing.
  • understand the local and accessible services and resources available, to which people in the community can be signposted to support their health and wellbeing needs.
  • identify gaps in available services and resources preventing individuals and communities from achieving optimal health and wellbeing.
  • build relationships with local organisations and groups.

 

Typical job titles include:

Care or service navigator, Community connector, Community health champion, Health trainer, Live well coach, Social prescribing link worker
 

In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with:

  • individual people on a one-to-one basis and people in groups.
  • community-based organisations and service providers (including voluntary or charity-based providers).
  • NHS and local authority health and care professionals, individually and in teams.
  • Lay and professional workers from other sectors, including people representatives such as faith leaders or parish and ward councillors, as well as organisations such as Healthwatch.
  • peers (paid and voluntary) in their own or other organisations.
  • other workers (paid and voluntary) who they may supervise.
  • local health and wellbeing services, such as lifestyle support services, IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies).
  • sources of digital help and support, including those supporting mental and emotional health and wellbeing.
  • the private sector, e.g. retail firms, local businesses.

Duration: 12 months

Level: 3

Entry requirements:

Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the End-Point Assessment.