Are you looking for a meaningful career? Would you like the opportunity to become a dedicated deputy manager, helping individuals with severe mental health conditions, live the best life possible?
As a Deputy Service Manager at NIHCSS you will be supporting the Service Manager and will be responsible for nurturing and inspiring those coming to work for NIHCSS to help ensure we have the best staff team, offering the best support services.
NIHCSS is a partnership with Together and St Martins Housing Trust, both charities that support adults with severe mental health illness. We work with clients to facilitate independent living and believe in a world where anyone with mental health issues can live within their community with the choice and support they need to live their best life possible.
As the Deputy Service Manager you will also support the Service Manager to oversee a supported living service.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits and career development opportunities. We will give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way. NIHCSS are committed to investing in our staff to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise in your role and to assist you in your personal development.
NIHCSS are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority. All employees get access to monthly complimentary therapies, regular team off site reflection days, team building days, occasional free lunches and treat boxes, clinical reflection sessions from an external practitioner either in a group setting or on a 1:1 basis, NIHCSS hoodie and welcome pack. Care Friends: Employee referral app – earn money for referring your friends to work for NIHCSS and receive reward points. Free life assurance – 3 x your annual salary and more…
About the role
Alongside the Service Manager, you are responsible and accountable for monitoring, maintaining and providing the highest standards of service delivery, while promoting independence and choice to the people supported in the service. You will support the Service Manager to manage and ensure the delivery of the service’s key quality and safety priorities by holding delegated responsibility in key areas of the day-to-day running of the supported living service. You will also have delegated responsibility for the direct supervision and line management of a team of support workers. As a senior member of the team, you will promote and lead good practice at all times.
A full UK driving licence, with access to your own vehicle, is essential for the role.
About you
If you have the passion for delivering high quality care and support services to people with mental health issues and want to make a difference to enable people to live a more fulfilling and independent life – then this is the role for you!
The benefits of working for Together
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Benefits of Working for Together
At Together we value and encourage diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We are committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self, welcoming applications from people from diverse communities and backgrounds who share our values. As an employer, we are committed to making any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.
Successful candidates will require an enhanced DBS check. To find out more, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service. Together is committed to equal opportunities and non-discriminatory practices. Charity No. 211091
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of individuals experiencing mental health challenges? Are you an experienced leader with the skills and motivation to drive change and deliver exceptional mental health services?
NIHCSS are recruiting for a Mental Health Service Manager dedicated to supporting and leading a team who’s vision is to help people live ordinary, independent and happy lives through extraordinary support.
The Role:
As the Mental Health Service Manager, you will play a crucial role within the NIHCSS service. You will lead, manage, and develop a portfolio of mental health services, ensuring safe delivery, meeting objectives, and representing the organisation to commissioners. With the support of a Deputy, you will be responsible for leading a staffing team of 22.
Main responsibilities:
Essential requirements:
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you
This job is an opportunity to make a difference and shape lives!
Too many people pass through the criminal justice system without their mental health needs being recognised. With more than 70% of the prison population experience some level of mental distress, it’s crucial that specialist services exist to ensure that people get the care and support they need to break the cycle of offending. This is where you come in.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Award winning London Liaison and Diversion services across London. This role links closely with our L&D service which aims to identify and work with people going through the criminal justice system who have mental health needs and other vulnerabilities to support their access to appropriate services in the community.
We currently recruiting in our Community L&D service South cluster team based in Wimbledon Magistrate’s Court.
Key functions include:
Offer short-term (often up to three months), outreach support through:
About you?
The successful candidate must have experience of working in criminal justice system and delivering mental services, and have good knowledge and understanding of peer support and service user leadership. You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels.
This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team. You will also benefit from being part of a dynamic growing organisation, committed to the development of its workforce.
“Our team consists of people with a breadth of clinical experiences, we work to make a difference to truly vulnerable people and we pride ourselves on partnership working” - current team member.
The above are a full time (37.5 hrs a week) posts, but we can consider part-time arrangements.
We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the support they need to make positive changes in their recovery journey. You really can make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make changes, when they do not always believe in themselves. The Criminal Justice service has multiple projects working within courts, prisons, probation and the community, aiming at providing mental health support in all these stages of the criminal justice system. We’ve seen impressive growth over the last two years extending our remit of work and this is something we’re highly motivated to continue.
To apply for any of the roles please send a recent CV and a supporting statement of no more than 2 A4 pages, to explain how you meet the role requirements.
Our core principle at Together is service user leadership as we believe that benefits those people who are accessing support and has positive impact on all aspects of Together, and wider society. We want to be able to learn from people who have a range of views and who have experienced mental distress. By learning from the people who use our services in that way we aim to inform and influence Together from a Lived Experience perspective.
What We Can Offer You
The Southwark Wellbeing Hub, run by the national mental health charity, Together for Mental Wellbeing, is the leading advice and information service for people in Southwark concerned about their own mental health or about the mental wellbeing of someone close to them.
We support people to navigate local options of support and to be linked with specialist services which can meet their needs. Our aims are to support people to make informed decisions; to improve the wellbeing of everyone in Southwark & to support those with mental health needs to manage their wellbeing.
The role of the Peer Support & Volunteer Coordinator will include the ongoing recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers, peer supporters, placement staff to support service users with their longer-term wellbeing journey and in preparation for future employment opportunities. Your role will also support a programme of workshops and activities to aid the understanding of issues relating to mental health difficulties and developing skills to improve personal wellbeing.
The peer support component will include 1-2-1 and group peer support to people experiencing emotional distress and who would benefit from and want to engage with peer support interventions to aid their recovery goals. A key component is that these staff use their own direct lived experience of mental health difficulties to support other people. They will work collaboratively with people within their service, focusing on the person’s strengths and personal resources to offer educational, emotional and practical support towards goals that are defined by the person.
You will support Volunteers, Peer Support Volunteers and/or Peer Support Workers to deliver peer support that is grounded in Together’s Peer Support and Service User Leadership models, principles and organisational values, whilst drawing on your own lived experience of mental distress to support the implementation, ongoing development and delivery of peer support and volunteering in the service and across Together.
To do this effectively, the Peer Support & Volunteer Coordinator will be an expert navigator of local communities, able to continually build and sustain relationships and partnerships with agencies, universities, professionals, and employers who may use or contribute to the project.
The role of the Peer Support & Volunteer Coordinator involves autonomous, mobile working in the community alongside engagement with a fast-paced team.
This role will require occasional evening and weekend working.
If you are an enthusiastic, motivated leader, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Service Manager within Liaison and Diversion. You will be part of a dedicated and dynamic team with a specific focus on delivering tailored on the day support to individuals in the court setting and the community. Being compassionate, empathetic and able to create trust and psychologically safety with the Practitioners you supervise and the people who use our services are key attributes for the role.
The ideal candidate is someone with experience of safeguarding, crisis management and managing staff in a health or justice setting. You will have a mental health qualification, preferably to a master’s level. You will be expected to work autonomously and enjoy a varied and fast paced environment engaging multiple stakeholders to ensure excellent service user outcomes.
Some key tasks in the role are:
This is a full time post (37.50hrs) post. We are operating a hybrid model of work, part of your week would be office-based and part working from home. Your nominal basis would at our National Office in Lambeth North, but you would also be expected to visit your direct reports at their workplace regularly.
To apply for this post please send a recent CV and a supporting statement of no more than 2 A4 pages, to explain how you meet the role requirements. Get in touch if you’d like to see the Job Description prior to applying. Email us if you’d like a copy of the Job Description.
What you need to know about Together:
Together is England’s oldest mental health charity and since we were formed in 1879, we have believed that people with mental health issues have the right and the abilities to lead independent, fulfilling lives as part of their communities. We offer a wide variety of support to help people deal with the personal and practical impacts of mental health issues. The services we provide include supporting people in criminal justice settings who’ve experienced mental distress, one-to-one support in the community, supported housing and 24 hour accommodation services and advocacy.
Ravenhill Way is 10 bed CQC registered care home in Luton. We support adults with mental health needs with the aim of promoting recovery and independence.
We are looking for a motivated individual with experience of caring or supporting individuals with mental health issues. We require someone who will be reliable, flexible and are able to use their own initiative.
Support Workers are required to do light domestic tasks such as cleaning and supporting with cooking basic meals.
The care home is staffed 24/7 and so there is a combination of early, late and sleep in shifts, which includes weekends and bank holidays. There is a sleep-in allowance which is paid in addition to your salary.
We need your experience!
Do you have lived experience of mental distress and have come into contact with the criminal justice system?
Together is a national charity that works alongside people with mental health issues on their journey towards leading independent and fulfilling lives.
Our Liaison and Diversion (L&D) services work in partnership with NHS England to improve the health and justice outcomes for people who come into contact with the criminal justice system.
We are looking for people to become Peer Supports who will use their lived experience of mental distress and the criminal justice system to support others with similar experiences towards better wellbeing.
The best parts of becoming a peer supporter:
Travel expenses paid
Get in touch to find out more:Visit: www.together-uk.org
Email: anabel-cando@together-uk.org
Do you have experience of managing tender processes and generating income from statutory funders? Do you relish challenge and enjoy creative problem solving? Do you have an understanding and curiosity about the diverse experiences and challenges people living with mental distress face? Are you committed to social justice, equity, and inclusion? If yes, then you could be who we are looking for.
As the oldest mental health charity in the UK, Together for Mental Wellbeing has been providing high quality services to people experiencing mental distress since 1879.
At a time when mental health is at the forefront of public consciousness, an exciting opportunity has opened up at Together for a Senior Business Development Manager.
The successful candidate will join a motivated and dynamic Business Development Team whose overarching ambition is to support the delivery of the Business Development Strategy targets for new growth, diversification and sustainable business.
The idea candidate will:
Have demonstrable experience of managing tender projects, writing innovative proposals, and securing new contracts.
Have experience of responding to commissioners to create high quality, bespoke bids/proposals that are value for money and that generate significant income
Be able to develop and maintain relationships with a range of audiences including internal and external stakeholders
Have experience of supporting operational colleagues to develop new service models
Understand and be able to manipulate budgets and work closely with finance colleagues to produce costings that are competitive and offer value for money
Have an understanding of, be aligned to the values of, and be able promote service user leadership and involvement within tenders, applications and proposals.
This position is full time and both home and / or office based will be considered. The role will include some travel when required. All travel expenses will be paid.
Please see attached the job description and person specification.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview on 22nd April via Microsoft Teams.
If you have not heard back within two weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful at this time.
Successful candidates will require a DBS check. To find out more, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service. Together is committed to equal opportunities and non-discriminatory practices. Charity No. 211091
Willow Tree House is a supported-housing project for adults (aged 18 to 65 yrs) who have a primary diagnosis of mental health problems.
Based in Swindon, the project can support up to 16 individuals, each of whom have their own self-contained one-bedroom flat. The project’s aim is to motivate, enable and support tenants towards recovery, social inclusion and to achieve greater levels of independence.
As a Peer Supporter, your lived experience of mental distress will be at the heart of your role. You will support our tenants, sharing your lived experience in an appropriate way to express empathy and hopefulness. This role is open to anybody with experience of mental distress who feels they have the skills to support others.
We provide full training for the role.
Together for Mental Wellbeing - recruiting for up to three trustees with lived experience of mental distress
At Together, the longest-established mental health charity in England, we want to ensure that everyone who experiences mental distress is valued, can live the life they choose and can determine their own future. We will only achieve this ambition by being service user-led in all we do, and putting the insights from those with lived experience of mental distress at the heart of our decision-making. That’s why we are looking to appoint up to three new trustees with lived experience of mental distress to join our Board in a voluntary capacity.
What we do
Together for Mental Wellbeing is a national charity that supports people who experience mental distress to lead fulfilling and independent lives.
What makes us stand out is that we put people at the centre of their own support – they set their own goals and are in control of how we work alongside them to achieve these. We value people as experts in what works best for them, and draw on their skills and strengths to build resilience and support networks so they can eventually manage without us.
We are committed to promoting service user leadership wherever possible, and ensure the design and delivery of our services, as well as decisions at every level of the organisation, are shaped by the views and knowledge of those we support.
We work with approximately 1,000 people every month in around 70 locations and our services include:
For more information, visit www.together-uk.org.
Our values
We work together to facilitate choice through involvement, by doing what we say, never giving up on people, and looking to constantly improve how we work.
Our Board
We have an effective and collaborative Board of enthusiastic, friendly and committed trustees, who lead the development of Together and ensure that the charity exemplifies good practice.
The opportunity
We wish to appoint up to three trustees with lived experience of mental distress who can draw on their unique knowledge and insights as to how mental distress impacts on people’s lives, and share their passion and enthusiasm to drive the aspirations of the organisation.
Our approach is for the individual to determine whether or not they have lived experience of mental distress. One person’s lived experience is no more or less important than another’s.
We wish to increase the racial diversity of our leadership at Together and would particularly welcome people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds. Having completed a skills audit we also encourage applicants with experience of the following areas:
However, all applications are welcomed and will be considered.
We offer a full induction, along with ongoing training and development opportunities. Although our trustees are unpaid volunteers all expenses related to the role will be paid in full.
Typically trustees will attend around 10 meetings per year, occasional virtual attendance is possible, and be invited to events and visits. With preparation time for meetings this can equate to a commitment of 1-2 days per month.
As a Trustee you will:
How to apply
To apply, please read the information pack which provides further details on the role and then send a supporting statement (ideally no longer than two pages) and a short CV or career summary, to our Board Secretary, Nicola-Hannam@together-uk.org
Please refer to the information pack for the points which it would be helpful to include in your statement.
If you require reasonable adjustments to support your application please let us know.
We will be in touch with further information after the closing date of 02 April 2024.
If you require any guidance with your application, or if you would like to have an informal and confidential discussion about the role and/or any specific support needs, please contact our CEO, Linda Bryant linda-bryant@together-uk.org