Most people know someone who's had mental health problems. But not everyone knows someone who can make a difference.
The Think Ahead programme is a new route into social work, for graduates and career-changers remarkable enough to make a real difference to people with mental health problems.
At Think Ahead, we want to see a society where everyone with mental health problems can flourish. That won’t happen unless people can improve their social circumstances – because life issues like relationships, living arrangements, and employment have profound effects on mental wellbeing.
Our two-year graduate programme combines on-the-job learning, a master’s degree, and leadership training, all of which help our participants to become great social workers, strengthen mental health services, and spread social approaches to mental health across society.
On Think Ahead’s paid two-year programme, you will:
- Take on a challenging and varied role, with responsibility from day one.
- Be paid to spend two years training on-the-job and working in a community mental health team, alongside clinical professionals.
- Make a significant difference to the lives of people with mental illness.
- Gain two qualifications, qualifying as a social worker and gaining a master’s degree.
- Start a fast-track career with leadership training and transferable skills.
Think Ahead is a highly selective programme. While you need no prior experience of social work to apply, our criteria states that you must:
- Hold or achieve at least a 2:1 degree or equivalent in a subject other than social work
- Show a passion for improving the lives of people with mental illness.
- Demonstrate key attributes including resilience, empathy, and communication skills.
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Try something new!
Are you ready to join our growing team? Social Prescribing offers patients different ways to improve their health and wellbeing, reducing the pressure on health services.
As a Care Coordinator specialising in mental health and based in GP practices, you will provide extra time, capacity and expertise to support patients to understand the conversations they have with primary care professionals.
You will coordinate support and services, ensuring patients do not fall into any gaps while waiting for ongoing support, and support them to access other community or social activities that will aid recovery. A key aim of Care Coordination is to help patients engage more fully in their own health and wellbeing.
You will provide navigation and good quality information to enable patients to make choices and decisions about their care and support needs, bringing this together in a personalised support plan. You will work alongside Social Prescribing colleagues and primary care professionals, and it is essential that you are able to communicate at all levels across both the health and social care sectors.
The position is available in Sheerness and applicants must have experience of working with vulnerable adults and a background in medical or social care where you have delivered mental health support to clients or groups.
You will need to demonstrate a robust knowledge of confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and boundaries in all aspects of your work. Car driver essential.
Don’t wait to make a career change… apply today.
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Children’s mental health matters!
More and more children and young people are experiencing difficulties with their own mental health. There is no single solution and we all need to work together to ensure young people can access the help they need and lead healthier and happier lives.
Working alongside GP practices, Social Prescribing Link Coordinators help children and families connect with health and community services which will make a real difference to the child’s emotional and physical wellbeing.
You will deliver personalised support to patients, independently managing new referrals from GP practices and a caseload. It’s essential that you have an understanding of how to prioritise need, and are able to recognise when to refer on to specialist services, and must be confident to communicate at all levels across health and social care sectors.
We are looking for someone who is organised, proactive and able to establish instant rapport with children and young people. You should have experience of working with children, delivering mental health support and a background in education, medical or social care.
You will need to demonstrate a robust knowledge of confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and boundaries in all aspects of your work. The post is based in Tunbridge Wells and a car driver is essential.
The right support can make a difference to a child now and for their future.
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We need support workers who can create change. Are you organised, enthusiastic, resilient and thick skinned? The young people who reside in our temporary accommodation services need you. They are all 16-25 and experiencing a range of problems and need assistance to tackle homelessness and enable them to live independently. We need great team players who want to join an award winning and growing organisation that values its colleagues and puts the young peole at the heart of our thinking. If you are creative, persistent and able to engage young people who will put up barriers than all the better. You will be working shifts on a 48 week rota, offering support and housing management in a busy team based in Farnworth.
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Job Title: Mental Health Worker - Family Safeguarding Plus (FSP)
Hours: 18.5 Hours per week
Salary: £21,748 - £24,981 (SCP 11-18) per annum, pro rata
Location: Allocated FSP buildings within Oxfordshire
Contract Type: Fixed-Term until end March 2022
About Oxfordshire Mind
We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We’re here to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support; in total over 20,000 people in Oxfordshire access our services each year. With one in four people experiencing a mental health problem at some point in their lives, people need Mind more than ever.
Purpose of the Family Safeguarding Plus (FSP) Model
Oxfordshire County Council is making changes to the way we support children and families. As part of these changes, we will be providing new services to help and support parents. The services will be for:
- Parents with Mental Health needs
- Parents with Substance/Alcohol Misuse needs
- Parents involved in domestic abuse
Oxfordshire Mind, Elmore Community Services, Connection Support and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust are delivering the service for parents with mental health needs in partnership. The mental health team Manager will be employed by Oxfordshire Mind.
Purpose of the role
The purpose of this role is to deliver the mental health component within the Oxfordshire Family Safeguarding Plus approach. Workers will engage with parent/carers requiring time-limited support with their mental health, as part of the multi-disciplinary Family Safeguarding Plus team, to promote early engagement and aiming to de-escalate families in terms of social care intervention.
Workers will take a holistic and person-centred approach to supporting adults to identify their strengths, set goals and support motivation to improve their mental health and wellbeing through a variety of interventions. Working alongside social care, substance misuse and domestic abuse colleagues the mental health workers will also be available for consultation and the mutual sharing of good practice between professionals.
The key responsibilities of Mental Health Worker (FSP) are to:
- Support the delivery of the mental health component within the project,
- Undertake assessments of parent/carer’s mental health using a suitable, evidence-based assessment tool.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary way under the direction of the Social Work Team Manager & Mental Health Team Manager
- Work as part of a multi-agency model with colleagues in the team to assure appropriate, timely intervention.
- Deliver interventions specifically related to parental capability, mental ill health and presenting need with individuals and groups
- Undertaking home visits and appointments in the community, in line with agreed risk assessment and management plans, to provide a service to parents/carers
- Facilitate referrals to secondary mental health services and IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological therapies) as appropriate, including proactively supporting people to attend appointments and tracking progress.
About you
You will have previous experience of working within mental health within a child/family setting and have knowledge of safeguarding children and adults. You will have worked with parents/carers and children who are vulnerable, children that are the subject of children in need or children who first come into care.
You will be able to provide support and guidance to individuals to enable them to identify their own goals to support personal wellbeing and recovery, and the ability to support them in pursuing these.
You will have sound team working skills and the ability to work under pressure whilst using your inactive to achieve the best possible outcome for all involved throughout the process.
Closing Date: Sunday 6th December (midnight)
Interview Date: W/C 14th December (TBC)
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click 'Apply' to be redirected to our website, where you can view the full job description and apply online. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.
No agencies please.
Mental Health Supporter
- Home Based (with some travel to Head Office required)
- 21 hours per week (3 days a week with some flexibility)
- £15,600 per annum pro rata (FTE £26,000 per annum)
- 12-month fixed term contract (initially)
The role
To support and case manage individuals entering the Mental Health Pathway with a singular Mental Health issue directly from Helpline or Support Services and to provide computerised CBT focused reviews and support to individuals that are engaged in Ben’s SilverCloud digital platform.
Key responsibilities
- Manage and monitor all individuals referred into the Mental Health Pathway with a singular Mental Health issue or concern.
- Provide focused needs-based assessments to gain a better understanding of the individual Mental Health needs.
- Engage individuals with Ben’s digital platform and appropriate programmes.
- Case Manager & Support individuals on the digital platform, completing reviews with the individual as agreed.
- Identify and make internal referrals for Mental Health Initial Assessments or into Support Services where other support needs have been identified.
- To escalate where appropriate any case/situation where an individual is deemed at risk
- To communicate in a professional and sensitive manner clinical and non-clinical advice and guidance within the scope of the service and practice to both internal and external stakeholders
- To maintain appropriate electronic and written documentation including assessment notes and communication records with external parties by using SharePoint and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM (as applicable)
- To provide reports on individuals engaged in SilverCloud, as and when required.
- To undertake service-related administration tasks including sourcing of appropriate therapists / health professionals, completing new supplier administration and raising purchase order’s, as and when required.
- Provide appropriate advice, information and guidance (within scope of professional practice) utilising a range of digital tools and applications to support clients using Ben’s Mental Health Pathway and stepped care interventions (i.e. self-help, digital, telephone and face to face)
- To support the development of online Self -help content.
- To be able to work in a multi-disciplinary team in a flexible responsive and collaborative manner
- Communicate with individuals Ben supports via telephone, videoconference, email and text
- Support the management of risk associated duty of care, self-harm and suicide, working with other internal stakeholders to develop policies and procedures, as well as deliver relevant upskilling for operational service colleagues
About you
The ideal candidate should be confident in the use of digital health platforms and be able to provide guided support for individuals who may require this level of support. You should be able to easily communicate with individuals via telephone, videoconference, email and text.
You will be happy to work within a small team and have a bright and bubbly personality with a go get them attitude and a passion to make change.
- Practical experience in undertaking focused need assessments and planning person centred support
- Experience of working in a health, mental health, social care or information and advice
- Ability to demonstrate competencies required to undertake the duties associated with the post
- Experience in working effectively with people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds
- Working towards or willingness to work towards a qualification in Mental Health or Social Care.
- Working knowledge of conducting focused needs assessments and managing internal and external referrals
- Knowledge of best practice for managing a case load
- Knowledge and understanding of a broad range of Mental Health issues affecting individuals.
- Working knowledge or understanding of Clinical Governance
- Working knowledge of GDPR, Safeguarding & SASH (Suicide and Self-Harm) policies and procedures
Benefits
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays (pro-rata)
- Contributory pension scheme – matched at 4%
- Referral scheme
- Life assurance
- Discount on certain car brands
About Ben
Ben is an independent charity and dedicated partner to the automotive industry, providing support for life for its people and their family dependents. Ben is focused on delivering care and support to enable total health & wellbeing through working and later life.
Ben provides free and confidential advice and support focused on the main areas of peoples’ health and wellbeing: financial, physical, mental and social, supporting people at whatever stage of life. Everyone who works, or has worked, in the automotive industry can access Ben's support.
Ben also operates continuing care and support for those in later life, which isn’t dependent on an automotive industry connection, via its care centres as well as independent living for over 65s at its retirement village.
Apply now
If this describes you, then please enclose your latest CV and covering letter explaining why you are the ideal candidate for this role. If you are ambitious and motivated and want to make a positive difference to people’s lives, get in touch with us.
Do you have the desire to help change lives and have experience of working within a mental health setting?
We are currently looking to recruit a Mental Health Senior Support Worker who will play a key role across our Organisation who will assist with the day-to-day recovery of the residents and encourage them to live independently. You will join our team in Oxford on a permenent basis and in return you will receive a competitive salary of £20,400 - £22,667 per annum (depending on experience).
Response Organisation is one of the largest mental health charities in Oxfordshire that provides housing and a range of support for people that experience severe and enduring mental health needs.
About the Mental Health Senior Support Worker role:
Our main priority is to find people that can live our values every day. Experience within a care or mental health setting is desirable, qualifications are advantageous, however, we have a Learning & Development team who are happy to support you and your personal development and work to progress your career with us! You will be required to work 37 hours per week across equally distributed shifts that will include weekends and sleep-ins.
In return as our Mental Health Senior Support Worker we offer fantastic benefits including:
- Free Onsite Parking (dependant on location)
- Discounted online shopping
- Outstanding induction and training
- Free flu jabs
- £100 towards gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- £500 refer a friend scheme
- Allowances for sleep ins and night shifts
What you will be doing as our Mental Health Senior Support Worker:
- Supporting, encouraging and prompting residents with their medication
- Leading and co-ordinating the shift ensuring residents are supported accordingly
- Communicating regularly with internal and external professionals
- Delegating appropriate responsibilities across the team
- Promoting and encouraging both physical and mental well-being
- Taking part in a range of activities during key working sessions with residents whilst helping them to achieve their aspirations
- Ensuring house rules are kept and adhered to as well as providing a safe and respectful environment
If this Mental Health Senior Support Worker sounds like the role for you then please click ‘Apply’ today! We’d love to hear from you!
Response 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.
Mental Health Advisor
- Home Based (with some travel to Head Office required)
- 21 hours per week
- £17,400 per annum pro-rata (FTE £29,000pa)
- 12 months fixed term (initially)
Candidates for the role must be registered as a mental health, health or social care practitioner e.g. UKCP/HCPC/BACP or equivalent.
The Role
To provide telephone based mental health assessment identifying the appropriate support and services for individuals to better manage their mental health. To support other teams with advice and guidance to better support individuals, as and when required.
Key responsibilities
- Provide mental health assessments for individuals seeking support and make diagnostic recommendations for support as required
- Escalate where appropriate any case/situation where an individual is deemed at risk
- Communicate in a professional and sensitive manner clinical and non-clinical advice within the scope of the service, to individuals, Case Managers and external health and or social care professionals
- Maintain appropriate electronic and written documentation including assessment notes and communication records with external parties
- Use relevant systems to accurately record and safely store individual case notes
- Undertake service-related administration tasks including sourcing of appropriate therapists / health professionals, completing new supplier administration and raising purchase order’s
- Provide appropriate advice, information and guidance (within scope of professional practice) utilising a range of digital tools and applications to support clients using Ben’s Mental Health Pathway and stepped care interventions (i.e. self-help, digital, telephone and face to face)
- Be able to work in a multi-disciplinary team in a flexible responsive and collaborative manner
- Competent in the use of our therapeutic digital platform to provide guided support for individuals who may require this level of support
- Communicate with individuals via telephone, videoconference, email and text
- Support the management of risk associated with self-harm and suicide, working with other internal stakeholders to develop policies and procedures, as well as deliver relevant upskilling for operational service colleagues
- Be able to work flexible hours including evenings
- There may be times when the Mental Health Advisor will be required to support additional duties and / or projects. This will be discussed with the Mental Health Advisor and agreed with their Line Manager, Mental Health Team Leader.
About you
The ideal candidate should be confident in the use of digital health platforms and be able to provide guided support for individuals who may require this level of support. You should be able to easily communicate with individuals via telephone, videoconference, email and text.
You will be happy to work within a small team and have a bright and bubbly personality with a go get them attitude and a passion to make change. Candidates for the role must be registered as a mental health, health or social care practitioner e.g. UKCP/HCPC/BACP or equivalent.
Benefits
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays (pro-rata)
- Contributory pension scheme – matched at 4%
- Referral scheme
- Life assurance
- Discount on certain car brands
About Ben
Ben is an independent charity and dedicated partner to the automotive industry, providing support for life for its people and their family dependents. Ben is focused on delivering care and support to enable total health & wellbeing through working and later life.
Ben provides free and confidential advice and support focused on the main areas of peoples’ health and wellbeing: financial, physical, mental and social, supporting people at whatever stage of life. Everyone who works, or has worked, in the automotive industry can access Ben's support.
Ben also operates continuing care and support for those in later life, which isn’t dependent on an automotive industry connection, via its care centres as well as independent living for over 65s at its retirement village.
Apply now
If this describes you, then please send your latest CV and covering letter explaining why you are the ideal candidate for this role. If you are ambitious and motivated and want to make a positive difference to people’s lives, get in touch with us.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Manchester Mental Health Recovery Service for a Deputy Manager. The role requires an enthusiastic individual who has some managerial/supervisory experience working in Mental Health and recovery based services. We are seeking a dynamic, motivated, pro-active and well organised individual who has the ability, skills and knowledge to successfully support individuals throughout their recovery journey.
The service provides support, rehabilitation and recovery to 12 individuals who reside in a 24hr supported living service. Some of the service users have a Forensic background. The aim is to support individuals throughout their recovery journey within a 2 year period with the expectation that they have developed the skills/abilities, knowledge, independence and confidence to successfully move on to less supported accommodation.
The service also provides Housing Related Outreach support to 5 people with mental health needs who reside in the community.
As Deputy Manager you will be responsible for deputising, developing and overseeing a vibrant programme of rehabilitation, recovery and wellbeing support for people with severe and enduring mental health needs, provided through one-to-one goal planning & personalised interventions in order to achieve the desired outcomes.
Key responsibilities would be:
• Deputising and supporting the Project Manager in co-ordination of all aspects of recovery service delivery
• Taking responsibility for the smooth running of the service in the absence of the Project Manager.
• Supporting the teams to develop and deliver a vibrant and engaging recovery programme
• Support with Recruitment, supervision, support of staff, students on placement and volunteers
• Marketing and promoting the service to stakeholders and service users
• Supporting the manager with contract compliance, data collection and achievement of all outputs, outcomes and KPIs
• Providing a safe, welcoming environment and excellent customer care
• Promoting co-production and positive partnerships
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Ready for a new challenge?
We are looking for an organised, self-motivated and confident individual to join our Social Prescribing team in a specialist mental health role. You will work with adult patients to help them access support that will enable them lead more independent, resilient and healthier lives.
Working alongside GP practices, Social Prescribing Link Coordinators help patients and families connect with health and community services which will make a real difference to their emotional and physical wellbeing.
You will deliver personalised support to patients, independently responding to new referrals from health professionals, and managing a caseload. It’s essential that you have an understanding of how to prioritise need, are able to recognise when to refer on to specialist services, and must be confident to communicate at all levels across health and social care sectors.
The position is available in Ashford; applicants must have a background in medical or social care, and experience of delivering mental health support to adult clients or groups.
You will need to demonstrate a robust knowledge of confidentiality, data protection, safeguarding and boundaries in all aspects of your work. Car driver essential.
It’s time to make a difference.
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The Role
DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.
We are looking for an enthusatic individual to join our Supported Housing Team at DHI in Bath. This is an exciting, varied and rewarding role which involves supporting clients to achievce and maintain abstinence from problematic drug/alcohol use and supporting them to move onto live fulfilling and independent lives. As well as supporting individuals the role also includes aspects of housing management.
You will be joining an experienced and enthusiastic team that work hard to support each other, deliver an exceptional service to clients and meet our contract requirements.
If you’ve got experience of working in housing and share DHI’s values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life, we’d love to hear from you. DHI also welcomes applications from those with lived experience.
How To Apply
Please use the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification to complete an Application Form and Skills Form and send to HR before Midday Friday 18th December 2020. Further information available on the DHI website
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Post Title: Information and Options Worker, South Bucks
Reports to: Buckinghamshire Mind Outreach Services Team Lead &
CMHT South Clinical Lead/Band 6 Supervisor
Salary: £22,500 per annum
Hours of Work: Full Time 37 hrs/week: Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9-4.30pm
Contract: Permanent
Work Location Based in High Wycombe, occasionally from Amersham and from home when required
About Buckinghamshire Mind
We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We’re here to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support. We provide a range of support services across Buckinghamshire including day services, education and training, counselling, services to prevent people from becoming unwell, befriending, peer support groups, children and young people’s services and employment support. We have an active Service User Council who ensure that we provide a voice for people with mental health problems in the county. With one in four people experiencing a mental health problem at some point in their lives, people need Mind more than ever.
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The Information and Options Worker will help to raise patient awareness of alternative mental health services appropriate to personal need and circumstances as well as encourage and support service users to use these services to improve longer term mental health and well-being.
Working closely with the Community Mental Health Team the postholder will take referrals (post assessment or during treatment) and signpost patients aged 18-65 to appropriate community support services – both within Bucks Mind and with other service providers.
The post holder will work closely with service users to understand their recovery goals and provide ‘handholding’ support to enable service users to attend the groups/activities in the community. A high level of work will take place in community as well as from within the Valley Centre across varied short-term periods of work (often no more than 3 months with each service user).
The post holder will keep monitoring and impact data, provide regular stats and collate printed publicity material and information to supply to service users when required. Close liaison with the Buckinghamshire Mind community teams will also be required to ensure referrals into Buckinghamshire Mind services are well supported and that information and publications are up to date and available.
SUPERVISION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT
· Supervision is provided on a monthly basis by both Oxford Health and Bucks Mind.
· Buckinghamshire Mind has a system of annual appraisals.
· Buckinghamshire Mind is committed to training and allocates training according to a clearly defined annual training needs analysis.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Raising Patient Awareness
- To take referrals from a number of sources within Oxford Health and dependent upon decisions taken during patient assessment and/or treatment have a 1:1 consultation with patients at the Valley Centre, patient’s homes and in community locations, and to provide details of the range of (support) options available in the community, signposting, referring or supporting as required.
- Provision of an individual face to face ‘options sessions’ for people at assessment stage who do not meet treatment threshold or are discharged from the CMHT treatment team. This will be done remotely if required by social distancing measures.
- Providing a digital option for the service, when and if required by Government guidelines on social distancing. This includes providing weekly activity packs/care packages sent via post, Zoom meetings/social activities, Facebook engagement and phone calls.
- Where needed take patients to the community groups/activities/services to promote their ability to attend the service regularly and independently.
- Liaise with Care Coordinators to agree on patient chosen activity and discuss future community-based support options as required.
- Ensure that the named Care Coordinator (or other referral source) is made aware of the recommendations so that they can be followed up.
- Attend the OH Service User Forum and Carers Forum and other meetings where patients will be attending to promote awareness.
Monitoring
- Monitor patient progress by liaising with CMHT colleagues and/or accessing electronic patient records.
- Reporting of service evaluation and outcome measures such as caseload, referral source, referrals, signposting recommendations, needs, progress measures, impact.
- Attend Multidisciplinary, Business meetings and any appropriate forum or team meeting, such as reflective practice, requested by manager to discuss and share information around potential patients.
Supporting and developing the Bucks Mind Information Service
- To support the development and provide updated information for the Buckinghamshire Mind Guide database and website.
- To liaise with outside organisations, individuals and the community at large to ensure the information we hold and distribute is correct, up to date and appropriate.
- To work with Bucks Mind colleagues to ensure that the online Bucks Mind Guide is well promoted and utilised across partner and community organisations.
- Monitor gaps in services and seek to mobilise additional provision to meet the needs of service users.
Interpersonal skills
- To communicate appropriately and effectively with service users and professionals across Bucks Mind, Oxford Health and the wider community.
- Demonstrate effective teamwork with the Information and Options Worker based in the North CMHT to ensure quality of service provision, attending weekly peer support where possible.
- To recognise, challenge and be responsive to stigma and discrimination of all kinds.
- To represent the organisation in a professional and appropriate manner at all times.
- To work creatively, looking at new possibilities, bringing new ideas to the team and respond appropriately to the needs and views of both current and potential service users.
Other
- To work within Buckinghamshire Mind’s policies and procedures including Performance Management, Confidentiality, Safeguarding, Equal Opportunities, Service User Involvement, Health and Safety and the Code of Conduct.
- To keep informed about other projects, events and related issues regarding Buckinghamshire Mind.
- To share ideas, issues, information with the team and in the wider Mind forum.
- To prepare for supervision and use it effectively.
- To keep line manager up to date and informed.
- To work in a flexible way to take on other responsibilities as appropriate.
- To attend both internal and external meetings for Buckinghamshire Mind and the CMHT.
- This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Post: Information and Options Worker, South Bucks
The person specification seeks to define a person most likely to be suited to the job of Information and Options Worker. Candidates are required to meet all the essential Conditions listed. E = essential criteria; D = desired criteria. Reference to both Conditions and Requirements in completing your application form will help in selecting candidates for interview.
General
- Supports the aims and work of Buckinghamshire Mind and Oxford Health NHSTF (E)
- Maintains strict confidentiality concerning all Buckinghamshire Mind and Oxford Health NHSTF matters (E)
- A positive attitude towards people with mental health problems, in-particular people’s ability to develop and change. (E)
- Has access to own vehicle with appropriate travel insurance (work related mileage will be paid) (E)
- Educated to degree level or above in a relevant subject area to the role. (D)
- Experience working with at risk adults with mental health needs. (D)
Planning, organising and administration
- High level of ICT skills, and administration skills, including understanding and experience of using databases and data protection issues. (E)
- Ability to write clear, concise and relevant notes pertaining to meetings with service users. (E)
- Ability to prioritise work appropriately, meet deadlines, keep timely appointments and manage a varied diary whilst working under pressure (E)
- Have sufficient knowledge to set up and provide support via digital online mediums, such as Microsoft Teams, Facebook and Zoom when Government guidelines on social distancing require a remote service.
Interpersonal and communication skills (inside and outside the organisation)
- Ability to respond appropriately to people in distress and maintain appropriate boundaries. (E)
- Work with patients/service users in a person-centred way (E)
- Have capacity to work with empathy, kindness and patience with mental health service users. (E)
- Be able to support people professionally and build positive rapport via varied mediums i.e. face to face, telephone or digitally online (E)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills (E)
- Experience and understanding of the importance of team working across varied community services (E)
Mental Health, Wellbeing and Information working
- Have a good understanding of mental health, the factors that impact those who experience challenges to their mental wellbeing, as well as the barriers they may face in their daily lives. (E)
- Understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of people living with mental and emotional problems. (E)
- Understanding and knowledge of other mental health and related services, both voluntary and statutory, in the South Buckinghamshire area, and be able to signpost service users accordingly. (D)
- Ability to work with service users in a solution focused way that supports them in their needs and journey to recovery. (E)
Organisational knowledge and understanding
- The ability to work within Buckinghamshire Mind’s policies and procedures including Equal Opportunities, Confidentiality and Safeguarding. (E)
Openness and accountability
- The ability to prepare for and use supervision and team meetings well. (E)
- The ability to take responsibility for your work and conduct and to make yourself accountable. (E)
Employee Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2 wellbeing days pro rata
- Training and development opportunities
- Sodexo employee benefits - access to a portal with discounts on supermarket shops, holidays, high-street shops, days out, cinema and gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme – free professional confidential counselling
- Childcare vouchers
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Flu vaccinations
- Free eye tests
- Pension: Auto Enrolment (currently 5% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution)
APPLICATION PROCESS:
VERY IMPORTANT: Applicants should send a copy of their CV along with a ‘Supporting Statement’ which responds to each of the points listed in the Person Specification / Selection Criteria. For example, a) An understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of people living with mental and emotional problems - please let us know what skills and experience you have that matches this criterion. The short-listing panel make their decisions based on this information and no assumptions about your skills or experience will be made.
The closing date for applications is 13th December 2020.
Interviews will take place week commencing 11th January 2021.
Buckinghamshire Mind is an Equal Opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. Any offer made relating to this post will be subject to satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
NOTE: The postholder will be an employee of Buckinghamshire Mind but will also be given an honorary Oxford Health contract in order to access premises and interrogate and upload patient notes.
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Title: Banbury Safe Haven Manager
Hours: 35 hours per week: Includes evening and weekend work as part of core hours
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Base salary NJC salary scale point 24-28 (£28,672 – £32,233) plus additional unsocial hours allowance for evening
Base: Banbury
About Oxfordshire Mind
We’re Mind, the mental health charity. We’re here to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support; in total over 20,000 people in Oxfordshire access our services each year. With one in four people experiencing a mental health problem at some point in their lives, people need Mind more than ever.
Our work includes:
- The Transitional Supported Housing Recovery Service (part of the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership).
- The Talking Space Plus psychological therapy service, in partnership with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
- The Oxfordshire Mind Wellbeing Service, which is part of both the TalkingSpace Plus and Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnerships and includes:
- Five Wellbeing Centres throughout the county
- Public Wellbeing and Information Services
- Physical Activity and Wellbeing
- Benefits for Better Mental Health, a welfare benefits advice service
- Volunteering and Peer Support Opportunities
- Raising awareness and campaigning activity.
We employ over 200 staff and operate in 28 locations around the county.
Purpose of the Job
To coordinate and lead the delivery of an effective Safe Haven service based on a ‘Crisis Café’ or ‘Sanctuary’ model to people experiencing mental health crisis.
The key responsibilities of Banbury Safe Haven Manager are to:
- Ensure the successful development and delivery of Banbury Safe Haven.
- Line manage Banbury Safe Haven Workers and provide support, advice and guidance to staff making day-to-day decisions.
- Maintain awareness of and implement relevant aspects of best practice in holistic crisis support, liaising with Oxford Safe Haven colleagues to share learning as appropriate.
- Maintain overview of the service to develop and maintain good practice, identify staff training needs and sustain effective systems of communications and support.
- Encourage Banbury Safe Haven Workers to support service users to develop self-management strategies and to make the best use of the local resources around them, to increase their ability to effectively manage mental health crisis.
- Offer support to service users accessing Banbury Safe Haven, alongside Banbury Safe Haven Workers.
- Liaise with appropriate bodies and adhere to Oxfordshire Mind organisational policy in relation to any child or adult safeguarding concerns.
- Oversee the recruitment and induction of key staff.
- Establish excellent working relationships with staff in partner agencies such as Adult Mental Health Teams, Emergency Departments, Primary Care, member organisations of the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership and others, so that they are familiar with the concept of Banbury Safe Haven and understand how to access the service.
- Raise awareness of the project locally and lead the Banbury Safe Haven team in promoting the service to relevant professionals and members of the public.
Closing Date: 9th December 2020
Interview Date: 17th December 2020
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please click 'Apply' to be redirected to our website, where you can view the full job description and apply online. Please note, you are not applying at this stage.
Oxfordshire Mind is fully committed to the principles and practices of equal opportunity and diversity.
We are a Mindful Employer.
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Support Worker
We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.
At Clementi Court, we have one of the most fulfilling and meaningful jobs you can do. The people we support are all individuals with unique qualities and when you get to know and support them, you truly learn what job satisfaction really means.
The two houses that make up Clementi Court are home to six adults with profound, multiple disabilities and is filled with lots of fun and laughter. We pride ourselves on being abig happy family with the people we support always at the centre of it all. We thrive on providing person-centred active support and encourage this throughout everything we do.
Salary: Up to £21,043
Hours: Permanent, Full time, 37.5 hours
Location: Clementi Court, Evesham
What we Offer
Apprenticeships – earn whilst gaining a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care with a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer (ranked 11th in 2020). Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also, an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options. Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status. Annual staff award scheme – The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme. 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) increasing to 25 days after a year of employment (pro rata for part time staff). A contributory pension scheme & life assurance. Free DBS Check.
You don’t need experience of support work or any special qualifications for this job - you’ll get plenty of training along the way. Having the right values and wanting to make a difference to enable people to live a more fulfilling and independent life is what matters most. You will need to have good listening skills and a practical, caring approach. You also need to have basic level IT skills to be able to use a computer to record information about people you will be supporting.
We are currently restricting face-to-face training; therefore most of your training courses, including some aspects of your induction, will be online. But you will still be able learn from your colleagues in a supportive hands-on environment.
You will ideally hold a full UK or EU driver’s license.
Closing date: Thursday 24th December 2020
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
You may have experience or an interest in the following: Support Worker, Support Work, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP etc.
Support Worker
We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.
As a support worker at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible. In this caring and creative role, everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, creating flexible services that meet people’s needs and always looking for the best way of doing things.
Salary: Up to £20,377
Hours: Permanent, Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Lympne, Near Hythe
What we Offer
Apprenticeships - gain a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care whilst earning. Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also, an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options. Access to award winning training and development – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status. Annual staff award scheme – The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme. 20 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays). A contributory pension scheme & life assurance. Free DBS Check.
You don’t need experience of support work or any special qualifications for this job - you’ll get plenty of training along the way. Having the right values and wanting to make a difference to enable people to live a more fulfilling and independent life is what matters most. You will need to have good listening skills and a practical, caring approach. You also need to have basic level IT skills to be able to use a computer to record information about people you will be supporting.
It’s great if you already have experience of working with people with learning disabilities, autism or dementia, but it’s not essential. What matters most is your positive attitude to life and your desire to support people to live their life with as much independence, choice, dignity and control as possible.
Closing date: Saturday 5th December
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
You may have experience or an interest in the following: Support Worker, Support Work, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP etc.