Enhanced Support

You might not feel ready to join a group session. We can still help. We are working with a specialist health coach from Oasis-Talk who can help you feel ready to become involved.

Enhanced support provides one-to-one support between 6-12 weeks to look at your strengths and barriers that are affecting your wellbeing.  This understanding informs the creation of a wellbeing plan based on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing (research shows that making changes in these 5 areas of our lives can improve our wellbeing).

Enhanced support could include the following:

• Tailoring the 5 ways to wellbeing to your needs.  Understanding your needs can help to identify small changes that you could make to lead to improving your wellbeing. One-to-one support can look in more detail at specific barriers and how to overcome them.  
• Empowering you to make small changes which should improve your wellbeing.
• Signposting to organisations that may benefit you to maintain your improved wellbeing. This may include looking at new groups or existing connections.  
• Help with problem-solving and reconnecting with your local community.

Using a coaching approach in this role guides you to find and engage with your solutions to problems.

Our enhanced support worker has: 

• an understanding of how to help people make changes in their life to improve their wellbeing.
• an understanding of how to help people understand habits that are not beneficial to their wellbeing.
• help people build healthy habits that last.
• help people to change their thinking around their behaviours.
• Help people to have insight into their own behaviours and what drives their behaviours.
• Support provided is based on research evidence.
• To help people develop systems that over time will lead to them making healthier choices.

This service does not provide:

• Support with completing forms or helping with accessing welfare benefits.
• Counselling, bereavement support and/or support for addressing significant trauma.
• Mental Health, Emotional Intensity (Personality disordered conduct) or Behaviourally challenging (Aspergers / Autism / ADHD) Therapy.
• Crisis Support while waiting to access another service.
• A service to hold someone while they are waiting to access another service – e.g. Talking Therapies.
• A Befriending service.
• A Social Worker - who would be involved where the presenting issues could lead to safeguarding concerns - hoarding behaviours/self neglect/exploitation/being exploited – making unwise decisions placing an individual in danger.