Independent Futures Coordinator - Bristol, United Kingdom - Second Step

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Second Step is a leading mental health charity in the South West offering housing, support and hope to thousands of people with mental health and other problems. Our goal is to inspire hope and deliver change for everybody and every community we work with.


Changing Futures - Second Step is the lead agency, in a partnership of organisations, chosen by Bristol City Council, to deliver the DLUHC Changing Futures programme in Bristol to support people facing multiple disadvantage, including discrimination, homelessness, domestic abuse, mental health, drug and alcohol and contact with the criminal justice system.

  • The Programme's aims are:
  • To improve the way that local systems and services work for people experiencing multiple disadvantage and who are traditionally not well served by services
  • To use the learning from this to influence future government programmes and policy The focus of the programme is on achieving a lasting impact through cultural and system change.
  • Coproduction with people with lived experience of multiple disadvantage, partnership working, and embedding equality, diversity and inclusion are central throughout the programme.

Independent Futures - (IF) is a group of members with personal lived experience of multiple disadvantage at various points on their journey. The group works both within Bristol and nationally to make a positive impact on systems through collaboration with organisations.


About the role:


  • In this role, you'll support the group's members activity, development and progression. You will join a team including a manager, a training lead and a peer trainee who will work towards procuring Lived Experience representation in workstreams within the Changing Futures partnership as well as external organisations. You will support recruitment, induction and supervision of people with lived experience, with an emphasis on coproduction, personal and professional development.

About you:


  • Someone who has experience supporting people who experience multiple disadvantages and who understands how to empower people and promote positive change. Someone who understands the challenges faced by exservice users, potentially long term unemployed, and knows how to support them and motivate them to progress into employment or education.
  • Further details of this opportunity can be found in the role profile which you can access from the top of this screen.




CLOSING DATE:
Tuesday 28th February 2023
**INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD ON: Week Commencing 06th March 2023
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