This exciting local pilot is part of a nationwide project, aimed at putting Community Health and Wellbeing Workers at the heart of primary care. 

Our Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWW) will visit households, identified by Benhill and Belmont GP Centre and Robin Hood Lane Health Centre at least once a month. They build a trusted relationships with these households and are a reliable and permanent point of contact for holistic support to the entire household offering community medicine at scale.

In this nationwide project, known as the Brazil Model, the role of the Community Health and Wellbeing Worker is to listen and offer help to residents/patients including:

• discussing and listening to what is important to residents and their families​
• helping them find and connect with the right services​
• letting them know what prevention opportunities they might be eligible for, for example cancer screening or vaccinations​
• explaining how services, including housing or benefits work​
• assisting them to make or attend appointments​
• telling them about and linking them to resources in the community that they may not know about. ​
• checking in on them following a hospital discharge​
• connecting people to each other in the community and so much more!

 Quote from a resident 

“Michele took me off the shelf that I had been put on because of my mental health issues … she gave me a voice… she made me feel like a human being and that I was worth time and effort… she was a great support network for me and I’m so gutted that the funding has stopped as I’m sure it was not just me that got help and support through the scheme”

For more information about this project or if you have any questions, please contact Irene Jordan on 020 8661 5900 or irenejordan@vcsutton.org.uk