Living Well Senior Wellbeing Coach

Mentalhealth UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Mentalhealth UK is seeking a Living Well Senior Wellbeing Coach for their Derbyshire Living Well Service. The role involves supporting recovery services for individuals with mental health needs, managing wellbeing coaches, and fostering partnerships within the community. This position offers impactful opportunities to enhance mental health outcomes and includes excellent development opportunities.

Benefits

Employer funded pension

Flexible working

Life assurance

Training opportunities

25 days annual leave rising to 30

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional leave on birthday

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals with multifaceted mental health needs.
• Genuine motivation to improve mental health outcomes.
• Good communication skills and ability to prioritize tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support the Service Manager and manage the wellbeing coaches.
• Develop links between partner organizations.
• Conduct audits and ensure paperwork compliance.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Leadership

Education

Health & social care qualification or willing to work towards

Job description

This is a Permanent , 35 vacancy that will close in 10 days at 23:59 BST .

Your role

We are currently hiring a Living Well Senior Wellbeing Coachto join our inspiring and friendly team at our Derbyshire Living Well Service.

Rethink Mental Illness are an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness.

JOIN THE TEAM!

The service is Derbyshire Recovery & Peer support, which has a team that provides recovery services to people in the community and supports them in long term recovery through Peer activity. An extension of this is the living well service that you will be based, which is in collaboration partner organisations and the NHS Trust underpinning this is Peer support development and training. The service has an over service contract manager and 2 managers located in areas across Derbyshire who support teams of mental health recovery workers & coaches including those with lived experience.

How you will make a difference as a LifestyleSupport Worker:

• Provide support to the Service Manager

• Support with the line management of the Rethink Wellbeing Coaches and Peer Support Workers assigned to the DLW project, including task assignment, case load management, professional development and staff supervision. (The objective is to enhance the roles and voice of the VCSE staff within the DLW team)..

• To develop and maintain strong links between partner organisations within the Derbyshire Living Well team

• The successful development of the VCSE roles within the DLW project, by ensuring that principles of the voluntary sector are embedded with the team

• Represent the VCSE at the Derbyshire Living Well Multi Disciplinary team meeting, other team meetings and wider Derbyshire Living Well project meetings as required

• To support the development of the Peer Coach role to ensure the voice of lived experience is at the heart of the team

• Provide support with service audits, IPL reports, and paperwork compliance for Living well

Essential skills and experience required for this role:

• Has experience working with individuals with multifaceted mental health needs and complexity- including serious mental illness.

• Genuinely cares about making a difference and is motivated to improve mental health outcomes for people and their communities.

• Be willing to attend Training and personal development.

• Health & social care qualification or willing to work towards

• Has experience managing caseloads of individuals with complex disadvantage.

• Has a working knowledge and understanding of mental health and the ability to recognise the indicators of deteriorating mental health.

• Has good communications skills and work well as part of a team.

• Has the ability to prioritise work tasks and develop effective work streams both for oneself and individuals in teams.

• Has a sound knowledge of information governance and the management of risks.

Who we are?
We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission:“A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”
It is an exciting time to join our growing charity. We are on a transformation journey, one that supports the delivery of the organisation strategy – delivering Communities that Care. Supporting employees, managers and leaders through this change is a key priority for the People function. Just like its key that we attract diverse people to come and work for us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer.We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer statusand are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider -and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in ouranti-racist statement.We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in ourRace Equality Action Planwhich demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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What do we value?

Passion

We are passionate about leading the way to a better quality of life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.

Commitment

We work tirelessly to provide support for everyone severely affected by mental illness.

Hope

We offer hope of a better quality of life for all those severely affected by mental illness.

Expertise

We constantly use our expertise to provide practical and personal support for people who are severely affected by mental illness.

People who are severely affected by mental illness are at the heart of everything we do in our organisation – our membership, our governance and our workforce.

Equity

We believe that in a world where discrimination and disadvantage exist, treating people with equity is critical to ensure justice and fairness for all.

We are open and transparent in all our work with beneficiaries, supporters, partners and the public to achieve change for people severely affected by mental illness.

What will you receive?

You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development, and a range of e-learning courses. You will also receive:

Employer funded pension

Flexible
working

Life
assurance

up to £55 towards the cost of new glasses or lenses

Training opportunities

e-learning courses & much more

Annual
leave

25 days rising to 30, plus bank holidays

PULSE

Reward, Benefits and Recognition Platform

Employee Assistance Programme

Rethink day

1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday

For the full list, see our websitehere .

Our colleagues say

“From the very start I was made to feel welcome and respected in my new team. In the short time I have been working with Rethink Mental Illness as a service administrator I have been able to contribute ideas and make meaningful change, and I appreciate that Rethink allows me to direct my own role development and help me build on the skills I want to work on.”

“Working for Rethink Mental Illness is the most rewarding job I could ask for. As a Peer and Volunteer Co-ordinator I get to work with a huge variety of people, with a range of skills and support them to incorporate those skills into their volunteering roles. I am always looking for gaps that need filling and creating new and exciting opportunities that will benefit our service, mental health in the community, but most importantly the people giving up their time to help.”

“I’ve previously worked in a large corporate environment, in the criminal justice sector and other charities. Without a shadow of a doubt, Rethink Mental Illness has been the best employer I’ve ever had. They care about their staff. Its great working with like-minded people and knowing that you are making a real difference to people’s lives.”

“It feels very rewarding to be part of such a meaningful Organisation where everyone is valued and has the opportunity to make a difference”.

Please be mindful that we may need to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications, we, therefore, encourage you to apply as soon as possible.