Maternal Mental Health Link Worker

Contract Type: Fixed term

Role Type: Employment

Hours: Part time

Application deadline: Friday, June 20, 2025 – 23:59

Based: Sunderland

Salary: £29,970 Pro Rata

Salary Type: Salary Scale

Location: Tyne and Wear

Role description: Project Support

Maternal Mental Health Link Worker

Contract Type: Fixed term for one year

Contract Hours: 12 hours p/w

Salary: AfC Band 5 comparable (£29,970)

Application deadline: 20th June 2025

Sunderland Counselling Service (SCS) is seeking to appoint a link worker to work within our Maternal Mental Health Link Work service. The service is set within a unique independent mental health charity, which is acknowledged for its contribution to the community by mental health professionals, health practitioners and local and regional voluntary and statutory agencies.

The post holder will be required to work flexibly from a variety of locations throughout the City of Sunderland and South Tyneside, including SCS office base, GP surgeries and other community venues such as Family Hubs. The post holder will also be able to work flexibly and confidentially from home at times to suit client and service needs.

The purpose of the role is to support mothers who are experiencing emotional distress or feeling at a crisis point to find solutions to their current issues and help develop more effective ways of managing their mental and emotional wellbeing, in order to help deliver better outcomes from preconception through to their baby’s 2nd birthday. The service works with women experiencing practical and social difficulties that impact their daily functioning and who present with moderate to severe or complex mental health difficulties who may benefit from step-down provision.

The post holder will carry out assessments of need and provide support and guidance to people who are referred into the service via our establish pathways. This may include direct emotional or practical support, signposting, providing self-help materials, a check in system, identifying a suitable package of specific support and making any necessary onward referrals.

This activity is envisaged as additional non-clinical emotional and practical support to wrap around existing mental health services, to support people while they are waiting for formal treatment, prevent deterioration, maximising treatment outcomes and supporting independence. It is NOT intended to operate as a crisis service or an alternative to crisis services, nor as a clinical intervention and would not take on care planning or case management functions which clearly must be provided by clinical staff.

The post holder will be employed on a fixed term contract of one year which will be subject to a probationary period of 6 months, with continued employment being subject to obtaining ongoing project related funding.

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Alicia Harris (Senior Mental Health Link Worker) or Toby Sweet (Chief Executive) on 0191 514 7007.

A copy of the job description for this role can be found at https://www.sunderlandcounselling.org.uk/vacancies/, alongside details on how to apply. Please note applications for this post must be submitted to office@sunderlandcounselling.org.uk by 11.59pm on 20th June alongside a completed equal opportunity and diversity form. Applications after this time will not be considered.

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