Living Well Wellbeing Coach Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire & Bolsover

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This is a unique and exciting opportunity to truly make a difference to the future of mental health support offered in Derbyshire.

The role involves supporting and motivating individuals to improve their mental health by helping them develop self-care skills, build resilience and better utilise community resources.

We’re looking for an individual, who is motivated by the potential to make a difference to the lives of people and their communities.

You are a dynamic, knowledgeable individual who will join a new team to prototype the new neighbourhood mental health model entitled Derbyshire Living Well, within the High Peak and North Dales area of Derbyshire. This role is part of a team that covers Chesterfield/NE Derbyshire and Bolsover.

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 Hubs which is in collaboration with the NHS Trust underpinning this is Peer support development and training. The service has an over service contract manager and managers located in areas across Derbyshire who support teams of coaches including those with lived experience.

What I Do And Achieve

• Manage a caseload of individuals with complex needs
• Provide coaching support to individuals on a 1:1 or group basis giving information, guidance, advice and support
• Support individuals to develop ‘My Story’- a way of telling their story, capturing their goals and co-design a journey of support
• Provide emotional and practical support to individuals- building confidence and skills and grow their ability to self-manage their mental wellbeing
• Connect individuals to appropriate interventions e.g. housing advice, debt support, education etc.
• Coach people to plan and set their own goals and support them to identify possible solutions to the problems they are facing
• Work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and receive and share information within that team in order to safeguard individuals and support them to work towards their goals and aspirations
• To maintain accurate information systems of records and activities, complete data sheets and monitoring and evaluating data
• Organise and facilitate group-based workshops and activities, ensuring self-help and peer support groups cover a flexible timetable
• Support service design, coproduction, development and improvement ensuring quality is maintained throughout
• Develop appropriate resources and materials for the service
• Support identification of spaces and places to build a network of places across High Peak and North Dales area that people can connect with
• Establish and maintain links with other services in NED&B Chesterfield area
• Ability to travel across NED&B Chesterfield area
• Working with relatives, carers and visitors to educate them about mental health conditions
• Effectively support delivery of the new neighbourhood mental health model.
  

Who I am?

• 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
• Appointments will be at the minimum of the band.
• London Allowance is paid for roles that are based within the Greater London area only.
  

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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Don’t meet all requirements?

If the role sounds exciting to you but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t exactly match every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply, you may be just the right person for our position!

Caring for our people.  

We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:  

• PULSE: our recognition, rewards, wellbeing, and benefits platform. Providing access to thousands of discounts and benefits including cashback; reloadable cards; savings etc. As well as being able to thank colleagues and nominate them for awards. 
• Wagestream: gives you instant access to up to 50% of your pay. Also provides a library of expert tools, tips and articles plus, helps you start building a rainy-day pot straight from your salary.
• Wellbeing support: our Wellbeing hub gives physical, emotional, and mental health support. We also have a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments. 
• Taking time for you: we work flexibly -you get to choose where you work, managing your own diary. We have generous annual leave, starting at 25 rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays, as well as your birthday off. We also offer the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave. 
• Planning for the future: We have a contributory pension scheme. 
• Structured Corporate Induction: Onboarding you into the Charity supporting your wellbeing along the way. 
• £300 when you introduce a Friend: receive up to £300 when you introduce a friend or family member. 
  

 

Who are we? 

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 for our Black, Asian and minority ethnic and our LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

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 our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrate our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and (asexual) (LGBTQIA+), people with a disability, and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

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