Community Connector - Mental Health (Part Time)

Community Connector - Mental Health (Part Time)

• Part-time
• Department: Operations (CL)
• Service type: Community Links
• Compensation: up to GBP 19,796.33 - yearly

Community Links is a hubtackling health and social inequality in East London and beyond. We work alongside the communityhelping people of all agesreach their full potential. We take our local knowledge of what works to influence national decision making.We are proud to be part of Catch22.

Catch22 is a social business which design and delivers services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. We believe that people can thrive when they have a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

If you share our values and commitment to transforming people’s lives, get in touch!

The Community Connectors programme is an exciting partnership between Community Links, Aston Mansfield, Mind in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge, and the NHS East London Foundation Trust (ELFT).

Community Connectors work alongside ELFT under what is called the Mental Health Transformation Programme. The ethos of the programme is recovery focused, exploring needs through complexity (rather than diagnosis), a focus on a person’s strengths and assets, and on the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.

The role involves providing holistic support to people suffering from a serious mental illness or SMI. Service users will have a single or range of diagnosed conditions, will be known to ELFT and will therefore have a range of needs, including symptoms of anxiety or depression, or have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Specifically, the Community Connector will work with multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) who sit within primary care networks or PCNs (clusters of GP practices) across Newham, and will support people in accessing appropriate local services, embodying a true example of wrap around support.

Above all, the Community Connector will be a strong networker who is able to engage multiple stakeholders for the betterment of service user welfare and outcomes.

• University degree and/or personal specification
• Local knowledge of services,provisions, and issues faced by people suffering from mental health
• Experience working with stakeholders and partnerships.
• A commitment in implementing the mission and values of Community Links.
• Any other duties deemed relevant to your role.

The above is not exhaustive. Required qualifications and person specification can be accessed here .

Contract: Permanent

Hours & work pattern: Part time, 22.5 hours a week (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9am-5pm). This role requires the post holder to work across five days 9 to 5 to meet the needs of the service.

Salary: Full Time Equivalent: £32,553.96 per annum. Pro-rata £19,796.33 based off 22.5 hours per week worked.

Location: Community Links, Barking Road - London

Screening: Successful admission to post subject to enhanced DBS check and employer Right To Work in the UK check. The post-holder must have right to work in the UK. Catch22 does not currently provide a licence to sponsor visas but please see this register to see those that do.

Catch22’s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have “ Banned the Box ”. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead, we invite disclosures at interview stage, and encourage them at the offer stage.

We aim to review applications as quickly as possible. However, due to the volume ofinterest we receive, we may not be able to contact all applicants individually. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful this time.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

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Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.

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