Community Wellbeing Worker – Know Your Mind in Bradford

Job Description

• Salary scale: £14.46 per hour
• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: 20 hours per week
• Base: Kenburgh House, 28 Manor Row, Bradford, BD1 4QU
  
• Probationary Period: 6 months
• Closing Date: Monday 25^th May – 10:00am
• Interview Date: Thursday 4^th June
• Questions: In the first instance any enquiries to be emailed to [email protected]. For an informal chat about the role before applying please contact Tyler Parkinson at [email protected]

About Us

Bradford District and Craven Mind is a thriving, independent mental health charity with a clear purpose to promote positive mental wellbeing and empower and help people experiencing issues with their mental health to manage and work towards recovery and fulfilment.

We do this through:

• Building community and individual resilience for better mental wellbeing

• Providing early intervention advice and support

• Supporting people in crisis

• Empowering and helping people to recover and sustain improved wellbeing

Watch this video to find out what it’s like to work here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxbMQk_ALwQ

Read our latest Impact Report and 2024-28 Strategy:

https://www.bdcmind.org.uk/about-us/

Find out more about our approach to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:

https://www.bdcmind.org.uk/about-us/equity-diversity-and-inclusion/

Join us and you’ll receive:

• 25 days annual leave per year, rising to 28 days with length of service plus bank holidays

• Up to two additional leave days to use each year to support your wellbeing.

• Simply Health Cash Plan to claim back on personal health costs including dental, optical, prescriptions, physiotherapy and more.

• Employee Assistance Service including 24/7 confidential mental health support and access to structured therapy sessions.

• Generous pension scheme and employer contribution to help you plan for a secure future.

• Discount schemes including Company Shop and Blue Light Card.

• Excellent personal development opportunities including access to Clinical Supervision.

• Enhanced sick pay after your six-month probation.

• Accredited employer with Mindful Employer, Disability Confident and Real Living Wage.

• Generous death in service/life assurance benefit

Role Background:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Children and Young People’s (CYP) team, playing a pivotal role in delivering and growing our highly innovative CYP services. This dynamic opportunity involves providing comprehensive one-to-one, child-led support to CYP aged 5-19 (or up to 25 with additional needs) who are navigating challenges in their social, emotional, and mental wellbeing. This role focuses on providing support in-person across education, community, acute and youth justice settings.

Role Purpose:

Know Your Mind Community Wellbeing Workers are at the heart of our CYP internal services who empower young people to understand, navigate, and strengthen their mental wellbeing through early support, meaningful connection, and accessible guidance. The role exists to build trusted relationships within the community, provide practical and emotional support, and help young people develop the skills, confidence, and self-awareness needed to manage challenges and thrive. By offering person‑centred conversations, wellbeing activities, and clear pathways to further help when needed, the Community Wellbeing Worker plays a vital part in creating a safe, inclusive environment where young people feel heard, valued, and supported in shaping their own wellbeing journey through a goals-based intervention.

Role Outcomes:

• Deliver outcomes-focused and evidence-based 1-1 interventions to CYP aged 5-19 (or up to 25 with additional needs), aimed at improving CYP mental wellbeing. You will regularly travel to work and in a variety of education, community, acute and youth justice settings.
• Develop session plans, using a goal-based, client-led approach that provides a welcoming, safe, non-judgmental and flexible environment for CYP to discuss their wellbeing or concerns.
• Work in partnership with CYP, parents/carers, families and professionals, ensuring all CYP are empowered to make informed choices about their support.
• Contributes to the development and delivery of mental health awareness training for CYP and for adults who work with CYP.
• Maintain high quality, accurate and timely records of work undertaking, providing case studies for discussion, personal development, and service improvement.
• Respond appropriately to incidents and safeguarding concerns, undertaking and recording risk assessments and following safeguarding procedures, with support from the Service Coordinator and Manager.
• Actively support and promote all aspects of the service and enhance the public image of Bradford District &Craven Mind, including supporting promotional events and community fundraising.
• Work effectively with, and support coworkers, and attend and contribute to team meetings.
• Participate in reflective supervision and development opportunities and processes, including appraisals and training related to the role.
• Work in alignment with the aims, objectives, and core values of Mind in Bradford.
• Be familiar with and take responsibility, with colleagues, for ensuring that all Health and Safety, Safeguarding, Information Governance and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion requirements are met, and all other Company policies complied with.
• Promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in service development and delivery.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties or tasks deemed necessary by the Leadership Team.

Person specification

Bradford District and Craven Mind is committed to promoting mental health awareness, reducing stigma, and improving the quality of life for people with mental health challenges. We value diversity, inclusion and lived experiences when recruiting our staff and volunteers.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Qualification in youth work, community work, mental health, social care, or equivalent experience supporting children and young people.

Desirable:

• Evidence of ongoing professional development in a relevant field.
• Qualifications or experience in supporting CYP with presenting mental health or additional needs.

Experience

Essential:

• Practical experience of working with children and young people in a health, social care or any other relevant setting.
• Experience of supporting people in a clear, meaningful and non-judgemental way either via telephone or in person.
• Experienced and confident in managing challenging situations and recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns.

Skills and Abilities

Essential:

• Excellent proven written, verbal and non-verbal communication and organisational skills, including an ability to encourage and engage people in ways to make positive changes in their lives.
• Excellent IT skills, including use of Microsoft packages
• Ability to work as part of a team and work alone and use own initiative
• Ability to gather relevant information to support and assess risks
• Willingness and ability to travel across the Bradford district including Keighley Central

  Desirable:

• UK Driving license and access to a vehicle.

Knowledge

Essential:

• Knowledge of other relevant health & social care organisations across the Bradford District & Craven

Attitude and Personal Attributes

Essential:

• Inclusive and welcoming approach
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic approach, with a can-do attitude and commitment to providing person-centred services
• Passionate and dedicated approach
• Understanding of and commitment to the Mind in Bradford values
• Lived experience of mental health challenges (personal or professional).
• Experience using outcome measures and case management systems.
• Knowledge of risk management and health and safety issues
• Understanding of safeguarding and good practice
• Understanding of confidentiality and data protection
• Understanding of the key issues within mental health, and the potential challenges that people may face
  

How to apply:

• Please click the ‘Apply for this job’ button and follow the steps to fill out the application form.
• Upload your CV and a cover letter showing how your experience and skills match the Job Description and Person Specification under.
• We’re unable to provide feedback to applicants who are not shortlisted.
• We are committed to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults. All successful candidates will need to apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a right to work in the UK check.