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Job Details: Coventry and Warwickshire Mind
Job Title: Supported Self Help (Active Monitoring) Practitioner.
Location: Remote some travel around the region will be required.
Salary: £20,827 per annum (£25,687 FTE).
Hours: 30 hours per week, to be worked flexibly, potentially including some evening and weekend work
Job type: Permanent.
A new and exciting Supported Self Help Practitioner role has been made available at Coventry and Warwickshire Mind. If you are passionate about providing support to individuals experiencing varying degrees of mental health and wellbeing difficulties and want to be part of an organisation whose mission it is to pioneer new approaches to helping people to access the right support when they most need it, then apply today
About the Role:
Coventry and Warwickshire Mind is looking for one part-time (0.8fte) Supported Self Help Practitioner to support our brand-new Supported Self Help project. The successful applicants will work closely with the Service Manager and the Supported Self Help team to deliver the programme to residents of Coventry and Warwickshire
Were looking for people with excellent interpersonal skills who can work in a person-centred, non-judgemental manner way and help us to make the Supported Self Help project a success.
About the service:
Supported Self Help (previously known as Active Monitoring) is a tried and tested early intervention service, developed by Mind and designed to improve the mental health and wellbeing of adults. It is a guided self-help programme facilitated by trained and supervised Mental Health Practitioners. The service aims to support people to improve their lives by developing key skills and strategies to manage their own health and wellbeing.
Beneficiaries attend an introductory meeting with the Practitioner where they discuss their support needs and the appropriateness of Supported Self Help. They then select one of seven pathways, including anxiety and panic attacks, low mood, low self-esteem, stress, grief and loss, feeling alone and managing anger. Five further sessions are provided, during which they work through the pathways and put together a toolkit of resources that work best for them
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a caseload of Supported Self Help (Active Monitoring) clients.
- Work with people to overcome early signs of mental health distress, such as anxiety, depression and stress.
- Follow a set programme in providing graded exposure via a facilitated self-help model, including referring people to higher levels of intervention when required and/or signposting to other services that might help them to maintain wellbeing.
- Deliver an effective service to meet set targets of the contract.
- Establish positive client engagement and input, as well as being involved in promoting general aspects of well-being.
- Maintain records of clients personal data and wellbeing outcomes, as agreed with programme managers, to support the running of this programme.
- Manage all administration processes accurately and efficiently.
- Undergo any training relevant to the role either internally or externally, most importantly the Active Monitoring training provided by national Mind.
- Promote the concepts of social inclusion, early intervention and recovery and ensure this underpins the direction of Active Monitoring activities.
- Keep abreast of local services relating to well-being.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with key partner agencies and programme staff.
Essential criteria:
- Able to motivate people to engage in self-help activities.
- IT literate, including Office 365.
- Able to manage and achieve targets including data collection and input.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and able to build strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Able to prioritise, managing a varied workload and time effectively.
- Able to work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Able to manage professional boundaries, deal with sensitive information, and maintain confidentiality.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Ability to work in a recovery orientated, person centred, non-judgemental manner.
- Be prepared to travel across Coventry and Warwickshire.
- Able to work some evenings and weekend with prior agreement.
What We Can Offer You:
The following are just some of the benefits that Coventry and Warwickshire Mind offer its employees:
- Working Culture- based on core values of trust, honesty, inclusivity, enabling, effective and an unapologetic drive for excellence for children and young people.
- Annual Leave- 25 days plus bank holidays plus an extra day for every two completed holiday years.
- Wellbeing Day- 1 day, per holiday year, to be used to take care of your own mental health and wellbeing.
- Life Insurance Policy - Coventry and Warwickshire Mind are covered by a Life Insurance policy. The death in service payment is 2 x gross salary (tax free).
- Employee Development- Active encouragement not only to assist performance in the current role but also for the benefit of personal development via various means. Access to CW Mind CPD training and opportunities to access external CPD training.
- Flexible Working- A range of options available for all employees dependant on role and responsibilities.
- Pension- Minimum 5% employee contribution and 3% employer contribution, with an ethical investment policy option.
- Sick Pay- On completion of a 6-month probationary period, Coventry and Warwickshire Mind employees will be eligible to a period of paid sick leave.
Mandatory Questions:
If you are submitting a CV, you MUST include answers to the following questions, these can also be found on our application form:
- Do you have any unspent convictions or conditional cautions? If yes please give details of date(s) of offence(s), nature of offence(s) and sentence(s) passed.
- Are there any restrictions regarding your employment in the UK? E.g. do you require a work permit? If yes please provide details.
- Are you the partner or relative of anyone currently connected with Coventry and Warwickshire Mind? (either as a volunteer, service user or employee If yes please confirm their name and which project they are connected with if known.
- Do you hold a UK driving license?
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Closing date: 12 Noon, Friday 22nd September 2023
Interview Date: w/c Monday 2nd October 2023
Information sessions for this post will be held via MS Teams at 12-1pm on Tuesday 12th September 2023, and 6-7pm on Thursday 14th September 2023. To register to attend, please emailhr@cwmind.org.uk
We reserve the right to close the application window early and without notice should a suitable number of applications be received.
Please note: Only successful applicants will be notified.
Coventry and Warwickshire Mind values diversity and difference. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community, particularly under-represented groups and people with lived experience of mental health issues.
Coventry and Warwickshire Mind is a leading mental health service provider and an equal opportunities employer.
