Mental Health Practitioner (RMN/Mental Health Social Worker)
Starting salary: £34,821 per annum – 1 year fixed term post
Hours: 37 hours per week (flexible, but normally during office hours)
Location: Cambridge

Cambridge Cyrenians has been providing accommodation and support to homeless men and women for nearly 50 years. We now wish to recruit a Mental Health Practitioner to support service users experiencing mental health issues and to assist with their resettlement.

As part of a small team based at our city center office, you will work with a designated caseload to assist identified service users you assess would benefit from your support, to enable them to access key support services that will assist in their recovery. 

The post includes; 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30), clinical supervision, continuous professional development and an opportunity to learn, develop and shape an exciting new role.

Closing date for applications: Midnight 21st March. 
Interviews: W/b 25th March.

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Could you be a Link Worker supporting people from within the NHS? 

Hertfordshire's NHS has commissioned "Link Workers" throughout the county to work closely with GP surgeries supporting patients to find non-clinical solutions to improve their wellbeing. Link Workers will work intensively with a small number of individuals, enabling them to access support within their local community.

You will be responsible for linking patients to services across the Health, Statutory and Voluntary sectors. You will work alongside patients to help them achieve their goals, undertaking assessments and building relationships to agree personalised plans to help the patient make the necessary changes to live the life they choose. You will work closely with GPs, other health and social care professionals, and local voluntary organisations. 

You may have worked in a similar role previously - but equally this role will be suited to someone with good local knowledge, appropriate experience and a passion for personalised care. Are you a people person? Can you earn trust and help people identify goals and access the support they need to achieve those goals? Are you fully committed to person-centred services and to helping inviduals find solutions to their needs? Can you work as part of a GP surgery team, maintaining the highest professional standards, sharing systems, communicating clearly and contributing to case management? If you are proactive, enthusiastic and person-centred, then we would love to hear from you. 

We already employ a team of Link Workers in Hertfordshire and we are looking for new Link Workers to fill roles throughout the county. HCNS's wider activities are also supported by HCC and by local CCGs. The roles are offered as permanent contracts (subject to future funding). The roles are full-time but we will accept part-time applications and will try to find job-share partners. 

The roles will be based at one or more local GP surgeries and we will pay travel expenses within the geographical area covered. Applicants must be licenced drivers with access to a vehicle. An enhanced DBS check will be required. 

The role

We are recruiting Link Workers to work with people who are frail or vulnerable or unwell, or people who are in danger of losing their independence. Link Workers will receive referrals from GP surgeries. They must take time to understand people’s needs, and they work with professionals, volunteers, families, carers and individuals to develop appropraite solutions.

You will work to understand your local community, link people together, and help develop more effective services. When solutions are needed, you will find them.

The job

You will be employed by one of the voluntary organisations involved in the delivery of Link Worker services: Age UK Hertfordshire, British Red Cross, Carers in Herts, Dacortium, Home-Start Watford & Three Rivers, POhWER, Watford & Three Rivers Trust and Watford Community Housing. Other partners may join.

You will be assigned to work with one or more GP surgeries and play a key role within their team. You will also be part of a locality team comprising other social prescribers led by a Senior Navigator.

You will need to operate independently and as part of several different teams, each providing support and supervision. You will use case management databases and communications systems, understand safeguarding and privacy rules, and provide high quality information, input and feedback. 

Please apply online stating how you meet the above requirements for this post. Shortlisted candidates will receive full details before interview. If you are currently based beyond reasonable commuting distance of of Hertsmere or South West Hertfordshire, please explain how you will commute or relocate or your application will be disregarded. 

Applications

Please apply soonest: we will interview candidates as appropriate applications are received. Please apply online stating how you meet the requirements for this post. If you are currently based outside Hertfordshire, please explain how you will relocated or commute if appointed. Shortlisted candidates will receive full details before interview. 

SERICC works with victims and survivors of sexual violence and child sexual abuse, providing independent, specialist support, promoting and representing their rights and needs.

SERICC is a registered charity working with adults, young people and children from across south and west Essex.  We have a head office in Thurrock and outreach premises in Southend, Basildon, Brentwood, Harlow & Epping. 

The role of SERICC’s Child & Family - Brighter Futures post is to provide an integrated, intensive and highly personalised offer of help intended to support and equip families to learn and apply parenting skills that develop resourcefulness and resilience while strengthening positive relationships with their children. 

The post holder will provide primarily face to face services (Essential Key Worker Status), holding a caseload of clients that includes parents/carers and children.

About us:

Camphill Village Trust is an award-winning national charity supporting people with learning and other disabilities. We provide housing, care, support and day opportunities to people with learning and other difficulties. We support people to be safe, healthy, happy and to be active citizens living a life of opportunity. 

Purpose of the Role:

Working as part of our management team in the Delrow Community, this role will involve taking the lead in developing bespoke packages of Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) to meet the individual needs of people with a range of learning disabilities, including autism. 

It is also to train, advise and support our staff with the implementation of strategies, to ensure we are providing consistent PBS across the Community.

 Key responsibilities:

• Improve communication for people we support (Switches, PECS, Eye Gaze,    Makaton signing etc.). To also have knowledge of Dysphagia assessment and  treatment.
• Advising on best practice and providing practice leadership and coaching to staff on Active Support and PBS. 
• Provide positive behaviour support training and physical interventions training.
• Take a leading role in the assessment, transition, and implementation of plans for new people we support.
• Follow and shape policies, procedures, and practices. To make sure appropriate recording and reporting arrangements exist to support the delivery and evidencing of service delivery standards 

 What we are looking for:

• A Positive Behaviour Support Qualification or accreditation
• Proven record of working with adults with learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum disorder.
• Skilled in using PBS and functional assessment to improve people’s lives 
• In depth experience of quality assurance processes and evidencing outcomes/standards. 

You may either have substantial experience working in adult social care or have experience as a psychologist, a learning disabilities nurse or a social worker.

We can offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits including 33 days annual leave, death in service benefits and access to our pension scheme. 

The REMA Centre Counselling Service is a local mental health charity that is part of the work of London School of Theology (LST). This busy, well-established, BACP-accredited counselling service is for people across Hertfordshire.  The service also provides training placements for students on LST’s Theology and Counselling BACP-accredited degree programme.

LST is recruiting a Counselling Services Manager to lead, coordinate, develop and expand the service at the REMA Centre.This is a management position in a thriving organisation requiring an experienced practitioner who has BACP Accredited membership. Preference will be given to candidates who also have NCS or ACC Accredited membership, UKCP or BPC registered membership or are a counselling psychologist registered with the HCPC. 

It is essential to have experience of integrative counselling, management and working within an organisational setting, together with a willingness to embrace and develop a broad range of counselling models.

The job requires high levels of professionalism and leadership and management skills.

The full job description, person specification and applications details can be found on our website.

LST is a Christian School and as such it is a requirement of the Person Specification that the postholder must be in sympathy with the Christian ethos, aims and objectives of the School.

A new opportunity at CPSL Mind to be part of an exciting new Perinatal service working with Muslim communities in Peterborough.

Perinatal Service Project Worker (Muslim communities)
Based in Peterborough, home-based initially
22.5 – 37.5 hours per week (negotiable)
2 year fixed term contract
£21,589 Per Annum - Full Time Equivalent
NJC Salary Scale Point 12 (April 2019)

CPSL Mind is a progressive and expanding mental health charity, working across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire.

We are looking for enthusiastic, committed and passionate Perinatal Project Workers to join our team. You will be delivering an exciting new Perinatal mental health service, which is being specifically designed for Muslim women during pregnancy and new motherhood.

We know that women from Muslim communities are disproportionately less likely to access community perinatal mental health services. For this reason, we are seeking to re-design our highly successful ‘Connecting Mums’, peer support and one to one perinatal services so that they meet the specific needs of the Muslim community, both practically and culturally.

The successful post holder will have experience in working with people on a one to one basis and/or in a group setting, excellent group facilitation skills and an in-depth knowledge of Islamic practices and traditions. You should be passionate about promoting positive mental health, have excellent verbal communication skills and have an understanding of how perinatal mental health issues can affect Muslim women and their families.

This post requires a female applicant from the Muslim community and is therefore exempt under section 158 of the Equality Act 2010.

Closing date: Monday 15th March 2021 10am
Interviews: Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th March 2021

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We will only accept complete applications, which should include: Application Form, Covering Letter and your completed Equality & Diversity Monitoring form. 

We are an equal opportunities employer.

No agencies please. 

About you

Are you a people person? Can you earn people’s trust? Can you help people find the support they need? Are you fully committed to person-centred services? Will you always “go the extra mile” to make sure people find the best possible solution to their needs?

Our purpose

Within a community and primary care setting, we use social prescribing to help people reduce unnecessary NHS appointments and find appropriate community and non-clinical solutions to their needs. Within a hospital setting, we work with clinical staff to ensure that people can leave hospital at the right time and with the support and care they need.

Our mission is to help health and adult care services to work together to reduce unnecessary demands and make sure people receive the best possible services appropriate to their needs.

The role

We are recruiting Hospital & Community Navigators to work with people who are frail or vulnerable or unwell, people who are in danger of losing their independence, people who are being admitted to hospital, and people who are being discharged from hospital.

Navigators take time to understand people’s needs, they understand what services are available, and they work with professionals, volunteers, families, and individuals so things link together as they should. 

Working across both hospital and community settings, you will help prevent the need for people to be admitted to hospital, reduce over-reliance on GPs and/or home care providers, reduce social isolation and improve health and wellbeing.

You will work to understand your local community, link people together, and help develop more effective services. When solutions are needed, you will find them.

The job

You will be employed by one of the seven voluntary organisations involved in the partnership: Age UK Hertfordshire, British Red Cross, Carers in Herts, Dacortium, POhWER, Watford & Three Rivers Trust and Watford Community Housing. Oher partners may join. 

You will work as part of a locality team led by a Senior Navigator. We need to recruit locality teams that can work flexibly as required by their communities: so everyone will be expected to do occasional evening or weekend work – and we need to recruit some people who will work as part of a rota including occasional evening and weekend work. You must be a driver with access to a vehicle. We can appoint people to work from home, but if your home is outside the locality to which you are attached, we will only pay travel expenses within your locality.

You will need to operate independently, use our case management database and communications systems, understand privacy rules and safeguarding, and work as part of a locality team supported by regular supervision, training and case conferences.

We are recruiting Hospital and Community Navigators to be based throughout Hertfordshire. The roles are permanent (subject to future funding). The roles are full-time but we will accept part-time applications and will try to find job-share partners. 

Applicants

Please apply soonest: we will interview candidates as appropriate applications are received. Please apply online stating how you meet the requirements for this post. If you are currently based outside Hertfordshire, please explain how you will relocated or commute if appointed. Shortlisted candidates will receive full details before interview. 

Community Regen has an exciting opportunity for an energic and creative engagement practitioner to work 3 days a week on a project in Cambridge and 2 days managing and delivering key projects, contracts and commissions for Community Regen. The role will also involve some working from home as well as some evening work.

Working as part of a small team, the Coordinator will be responsible for bidding, planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating key projects. The role will involve engaging residents, businesses and partners to develop initiatives and projects that benefit local communities. The position requires an experienced and approachable community engagement/development practitioner who can engage communities, develop and support projects and initiatives as well as being a good communicator, writer, and able to generate new partnership and project opportunities.

Citizens Advice Essex is the lead agency for consortium activities carried out by the network of local Citizens Advice in Essex. On their behalf, and due to ongoing expansion and extension of key contracts we are appointing to several key roles that will contribute to our extensive fuel poverty alleviation offer.

Postholders are expected to have experience of delivering welfare benefits advice and casework, and a good understanding of the principles of independent debt advice (practitioner experience would be desirable). Knowledge gained in these areas but from outside of the independent advice sector will be considered. If not already in possession, postholders will be supported to achieve the attainment of a City and Guilds qualification in Energy Advice. 

As important as these technical skills are, postholders will also need well-developed partnership development skills, to work with statutory partners. The South Essex role places a greater emphasis on this.

Postholders will benefit from working collegiately within a supportive and expert “virtual” team comprised of other existing post holders. 

Posts will be subject to all contract terms and particulars specific to the LCA worked for. Applicants can apply for either or both roles noting the slightly different emphasis of duties. 

Whilst home working is possible for all posts, there will be an expectation of a return to face-to-face services (including home visits) once safe to do so, and within the district and borough demarcations of each LCA and flexibly in neighbouring districts where appropriate.

Due to the nature of our work, notably planned work within Family Hubs, a Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) will be completed by the employing LCA before an offer of employment.

Youth Counsellor

Hours: Various posts/hours available maximum hours 30 per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Various – Multiple roles available in Norwich and Norfolk

Salary: £23,397 pa full time equivalent

This role will play a part in our mission to support young people in Norfolk by providing 1:1 counselling sessions for young people.

Applicants must have a recognised qualification in counselling, and be accredited, or eligible for accreditation, by the BACP, UKCP, or an equivalent body. Some experience of working with young people is essential.

How to apply:

The closing date for completed applications for all roles is Monday 15th March 2021 at 9am

Citizens Advice Essex is the lead agency for consortium activities carried out by the network of local Citizens Advice in Essex. On their behalf, and due to ongoing expansion and extension of key contracts we are appointing to several key roles that will contribute to our extensive fuel poverty alleviation offer.

Working closely with our existing Project Manager, the postholder will ensure compliance with all established delivery terms and protocols and gather and reconcile data to ensure oversight of each LCA’s contribution to the project. 

The postholder will support the arrangement of practitioner development and further, support the delivery of central marketing and communications. We ideally seek someone with a high level of knowledge and expertise in the use of the Citizens Advice “Casebook” CRM and associated reporting modules or a similar comparable CRM with reporting functionality. 

Home-working arrangements will remain feasible even after the end of current lock-down conditions although occasional visits to any participating local Citizens Advice or the offices of partner organisations may be required. 

Youth Mental Health Worker

Hours: Ideally full time 37 hours per week, but we will consider applicants wanting to work part time or other flexible arrangements such as job shares

Contract: Permanent

Location: Norwich (with a County wide remit)

Salary: £23,397 pa full time equivalent

This role involves delivering one to one and group psycho-educational interventions to young people. The ideal candidate will have experience of working with young people with mental health problems and experience of delivering individual psycho-social interventions.

How to apply:

The closing date for completed applications for all roles is Monday 15th March 2021 at 9am

Victim Support is looking for a Case Manager to work within the Norfolk and Suffolk Victim Care service, based in Norfolk.

Case Manager - Vulnerable Victims

Company Description

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career. 

Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner has appointed Catch22 to deliver the Beacon Victim Care Service across the county.

Job Description

As a Vulnerable Victims Case Manager, you will be the named and allocated worker providing support to victims and witnesses in Hertfordshire. You will build and sustain high-quality relationships with victims through an offer of practical and emotional support that wins confidence and trust.

This is a great opportunity to join this growing service.

Your main day to day responsibilities include:

• To provide a service to all victims and witnesses as appropriate

• To manage a caseload of assigned victims and witnesses

• To become the assigned, allocated and named Case Manager who will work progressively and consistently with each victim or witness

• To access and guide victims and witnesses through administrative information and advice package including the use of a web based information tool to inform victims at each stage

• To work as part of a Victim Service team to ensure the delivery of high quality restorative justice

• To provide information and explain the process and principles of restorative justice to identifiable victims of crime and offenders in the community and in custody

• To have a broad and competent understanding of criminal justice processes including the ability to advise and guide victims in such matters including victim witness statements, court proceedings and wider criminal justice system procedures
• To follow robust operational procedures to manage victim contact through phone line access, secure email access, secure text messaging, postal correspondence and web chat
• To ensure that victims, witnesses and professionals are provided with a robust introduction to the service, including; referral pathways, support services and the Victim Service’s offering

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with highly vulnerable people
• Experience of working partnership with stakeholders and other providers to deliver high quality services
• Experience of managing a caseload and identifying, developing and delivering appropriate interventions
• The ability to contribute to on-going assessments of the support needs of service users and to provide appropriate advice and support for them, their families and other professionals
• A passion for achieving positive outcomes for victims
• Ability to demonstrate professional empathy with those suffering discrimination and disadvantage

Additional information

• Salary: £23,000 per annum (Pro rata £11,500) (Grade C, Zone 3)
• Contract: Fixed term contract until 31st March 2022. 18.75 hours per week, some unsociable hours may be required.
• Vetting and Clearance Requirements: NPPV 2 (Police Vetting), Enhanced DBS check