Coffee & Craft Group Facilitator

Mary Frances Trust; Hove; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health charity is seeking a dedicated individual to support clients' wellbeing through craft-based sessions, including activities like knitting and crocheting. The role involves working with groups of approximately 12 participants, fostering an environment of engagement and creativity. This position is vital in helping individuals restore and maintain their emotional health. Ideal candidates should have experience in planning and delivering engaging activities that support mental wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and delivering engaging craft-based sessions is highly desirable.
• Ability to support and engage with clients, particularly in a mental health context is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support clients' mental wellbeing through craft activities such as knitting and crocheting.
• Engage with approximately 12 participants per session.

Job description

The role would involve supporting the mental wellbeing of our clients by planning and delivering engaging craft-based sessions. Activities may include knitting, crocheting and seasonal projects. The group is already well attended, with approximately 12 participants per session.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We acknowledge the unique contribution that all host organisations employees and patients can bring to our organisation in terms of their culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, age, religion or belief and any physical disability or history of mental health or additional problems.

Mary Frances Trust (MFT) is a mental health and emotional wellbeing charity, supporting Surrey residents since 1994 in Banstead, Elmbridge, Epsom & Ewell and Mole Valley. We offer a variety of face‑to‑face and online services, available to adults (aged 16+) living in Surrey who would like to restore and/or maintain their mental and emotional wellbeing (no diagnosis needed). Our services are free of charge, with no waiting list and no time limit (you can use us for as long as you need and register again at any point). To see all of our services, please visit the How We Help section of our website.

Our Vision

We believe anyone experiencing any kind of mental or emotional health issues should feel unafraid to ask for help, receive appropriate support for as long as they need, and be inspired to develop the skills that will help them to restore and maintain their own wellbeing, and lead a fulfilling life.

Safer Recruitment

We are committed to following Safer Recruitment practices to ensure the safeguarding of the whole community we serve, from members of the public and clients using our services, to our staff, volunteers, partners, and external facilitators. A criminal record does not automatically exclude you from applying for the position. MFT will assess each application on a case‑by‑case basis. This post is Exempt from the Protection of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974). All successful candidates will be required to undertake Enhanced or Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks as well as reference checks. These will be a condition of any offer of employment being made. All candidates must disclose both 'spent' and 'unspent' cautions and convictions on application - other than 'protected' cautions and convictions which have qualified for filtering. Disclosure should be included in a separate covering letter on application, marked 'Confidential'. Guidance on Filtering: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-filtering-guidance.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe in a fair, equal, diverse and inclusive society. As an organisation, we believe we are stronger and richer when we bring together different experiences and perspectives to better serve our clients and local community. We are committed to creating a workforce that is diverse, inclusive of all, representative of the community we serve, promotes positivity, and instils a can‑do attitude in everyone, no matter their background or characteristics at every level of our organisation from our staff and volunteers, all the way to our Trustees and Patrons. We strongly encourage applications from members of every community and actively seek to hire people with lived experience of mental health issues.