Locality Primary Care Mental Health Support Worker

Touchstone; Leeds; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Health and wellbeing programmes

Job summary

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. This Locality Primary Care Mental Health Support Worker role sits within the Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service (LMWS), delivering primary care based mental health support for people with mild to moderate needs and improving access in deprived areas.

As part of a diverse, inclusive organisation, you will work within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to early intervention, with a

Responsibilities

• To work within Leeds locality based Local Care Partnerships and integrated hubs, providing mental health support.
• Be part of a multi‑agency, multi‑disciplinary team delivering primary care based mental health support.
• Help increase inclusivity of the LMWS, especially among communities at risk of poor mental health and health inequalities.

Job description

Locality Primary Care Mental Health Support Worker

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mentalhealth and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire.Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people weserve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach theirpotential and trusted to lead.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health Support Worker within theLeeds Mental Wellbeing Service (LMWS) you will be part of multi-disciplinaryteam which delivers an integrated service to offer primary care based mentalhealth support for people with mild to moderate common mental healthproblems. You will also focus onincreasing access to mental health services for people in some of the mostdeprived areas of Leeds and those who traditionally face barriers to accessingthis support.

As an employee of Touchstone, you will benefit from the following:

Working for a diverse and inclusive organisation e.g. 36% *BME staff, 25% *LGBTQ+ staff, 16% *staff with a disability. Staff and peer support networks (*as above and many more)

28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)

Flexible working opportunities

Access to HealthHero - Employee Assistance Scheme and Virtual GP service for staff

Personal wellbeing and training budget.

Access to 24/7 confidential staff helpline.

Health and wellbeing activities and fun staff team away days

Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay

Additional day of leave as a celebration day or health and wellbeing

Learning and personal development opportunities

About us

Touchstoneis an equal opportunities organisation, an equal rights employer andapplications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BMEand LGB and Trans communities and/or people with disabilities who areunder-represented within Touchstone. All applicants who disclose a disabilityand meet the essential criteria will be interviewed. Additional information canbe obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do nothold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for thisparticular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the rightto work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will berequired to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offerbeing made to you. We reserve the right toclose this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early aspossible.

Job responsibilities

Background

Touchstone is part of Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service (LMWS) whichdelivers an integrated service to offer primary care based mental healthsupport for people with mild to moderate common mental health Needs. Together,our partnership supports thousands of people in Leeds to increase theirresilience and live their best lives within their community.

Purpose of the job

Job description

Job responsibilities

Background

Touchstone is part of Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service (LMWS) whichdelivers an integrated service to offer primary care based mental healthsupport for people with mild to moderate common mental health Needs. Together,our partnership supports thousands of people in Leeds to increase theirresilience and live their best lives within their community.

Purpose of the job

To work within Leedss locality based Local CarePartnerships and integrated hubs, providing mental health support as anintegral and critical part of a multi-agency and multi-disciplinary team.

You will increase the inclusivity of the LMWS,especially among communities most at risk of developing poor mental health anddeveloping health and social inequalities