We have an opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to use own lived experience of mental health to support others, by navigating through the Criminal Justice System and accessing support for mental health needs.
Title: Peer Support Worker
Working base: Luton
Area covered: Bedfordshire and Luton
Reports to: Project Support Manager
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £18,552.00 per annum
Contracted hours: 37.0 per week
Working days: Monday to Friday
Working hours: 7.4 hours per day
Responsibilities:
- To work in the East London Foundation Trust, Liaison and Diversion team as a Mind BLMK Peer Support worker and deliver on contract requirements.
- Encourage service users (including hard to reach clients with complex needs) to engage with the Liaison and Diversion Service, other agencies and referral pathways.
- Deliver a strength-based approach to support using own lived experience of mental health, in order to facilitate a space where people feel accepted and understood. Share ideas and approaches that have been useful in recovery and embed this in working practices as a peer.
- Increase the awareness and understanding of the range of local networks, community services and service user services available eg. Recovery college, Mind BLMK services.
- Be able to provide support and advice to colleagues in the wider Liaison and Diversion Service/Team based on lived experience.
- Raise any concerns within the wider Liaison and Diversion team and group/individual supervision and care planning, including review of care plans
- Carry out health and safety responsibilities in line with Mind BLMK’s H&S policies, procedures and guidance (risk assessments, reviews, reporting, safeguarding, incidents/accidents, premises).
- Carry out cash handling responsibilities as directed by your Line Manager in line with Mind BLMK’s financial policies, procedures and guidance (records, petty cash income and
- expenditure).
- Carry out responsibilities for the collection, updating, monitoring and reporting of service data in line with Mind BLMK’s contract and systems requirements and procedures.
Closing date: 10am on Wednesday 3rd June 2020
To Apply:
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No agencies please.
Gambling Treatment Practitioner
Full Time – 35 hours per week
Location: Buckinghamshire
Salary £25,000 - £28,000 p.a. – dependent on experience
GamCare is the UK’s leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling-related harms.
GamCare is now looking to recruit a Gambling Treatment Practitioner to work within our new problem gambling treatment services in Buckinghamshire.
You will be working with problem gamblers and others affected by problem gambling to support them in reaching their recovery goals.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Providing face to face and online advice, assessment, brief or structured interventions and group programmes to help clients achieve their recovery goals;
- Providing case management and working within an integrated care pathway;
- Ensuring safeguarding issues are managed effectively.
You should have significant experience in individual client work in the field of addictions, mental health or a social care setting with adults or young people. You should be flexible in using a range of low and high-intensity interventions and modalities including Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) tools.
You will form part of an enthusiastic clinical treatment team working from several locations across London, Home Counties and Lincoln as well as online. You should be versatile and adaptable and committed to on-going development.
We are looking for individuals to work full time which include weekend and evenings.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check
For further information, please contact Candice Donn, (Head of Clinical Services).
Previous applicants need not apply
Please note we do not accept CVs
Please complete the application form on via our website.
If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:
Job application: <Treatment Practitioner>
Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation
Closing date for applications: Monday 1 June at 9.00 am
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Gambling Treatment Practitioners x2
Salary: £25,000 - £28,000 p.a. – dependent on experience
Full Time – 35 hours per week
Location: Buckinghamshire and Peterborough
GamCare is the UK’s leading provider of information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling problems. Our expert services are confidential and non-judgemental.
GamCare is now looking to recruit several Gambling Treatment Practitioners to work within our new problem gambling treatment services in Buckinghamshire and Peterborough.
You will be working with problem gamblers and others affected by problem gambling to support them in reaching their recovery goals.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Providing face to face and online advice, assessment, brief or structured interventions and group programmes to help clients achieve their recovery goals;
- Providing case management and working within an integrated care pathway;
- Ensuring safeguarding issues are managed effectively.
You should have significant experience in individual client work in the field of addictions, mental health or a social care setting with adults or young people. You should be flexible in using a range of low and high-intensity interventions and modalities including Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) tools.
You will form part of an enthusiastic clinical treatment team working from several locations across London, Home Counties and Lincoln as well as online. You should be versatile and adaptable and committed to on-going development.
We are looking for individuals to work full time which include weekend and evenings.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check
To apply, please go onto the GamCare website and complete an application form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Survey.
Please note we do not accept CVs.
GamCare is committed to processing your personal data fairly, lawfully and transparently in line with GDPR. For further information on GamCare’s recruitment privacy notice please refer to our website.
If you would like acknowledgement that your application has been received, please ensure the application is attached and put the following subject in your email:
Job application: <name of vacancy>
Please note that if the subject is not correct, you may not receive a confirmation.
To discuss the role further please email Candice Donn Head of Clinical Services. Application forms forwarded to this email will not be accepted.
Closing date for applications: Monday 13 April at 9.00 am
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.