Engagement & Participation Coordinator - Chorley, United Kingdom - Lancashire Mind

Lancashire Mind

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Chorley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Engagement & Participation Coordinator

Hours: 28 to 35 hours per week

Contract:
fixed term for minimum of 10 months, potentially longer depending on start date

Salary:
£25,767 (pro rata)

Responsible to:
Community Engagement Projects Lead

Location:
Office base is Chorley with a mix of home, office and community-based work

We're looking for a confident, enthusiastic individual who can help us to get more people involved in shaping Lancashire Mind.
Lancashire Mind is a local charity working to prevent poor mental health. We support people experiencing common mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression.

We work with children and adults, offering universal services to help people improve their mental wellbeing, along with targeted services for people and communities at increased risk of experiencing poor mental health or facing mental health inequalities.

We're working towards a Lancashire where everyone can have the best mental health and wellbeing possible.

We have a responsibility to engage the communities we serve, to make sure we know and understand them. It's vital we do this to identify need and understand barriers and to design services alongside people.

We do this well on an individual service level, with many of our projects designed with the people who use them but we need to improve how we involve people with lived experience in organisation-wide development plans and key decision making.

To help us work towards our plans for embedding participation, we're looking for someone to join our Engagement and Inclusion Team to work with the communities we aim to serve, with a focus on those who are underrepresented within Lancashire Mind services. The role has been designed to ensure that the experiences, perspectives and ideas of local people are being listened to and acted upon.

The focus of the role will be to ensure that more people with lived experience of poor mental health know who Lancashire Mind are, what we do and how they can influence our work.

You'll work with the Community Engagement Projects Lead to create a range of opportunities for people to participate, including establishing formal structures, for example a lived experience panel and youth advisory group, which you'll design with the people who want to get involved.

You'll work with colleagues across all teams to ensure opportunities to influence Lancashire Mind's work are promoted to everyone who uses our services.

Interviews will be held on Friday 31 May 2024 in Chorley.

Download the Engagement Coordinator job pack for more information

Job Types:
Full-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 10 months

Pay:
£25,767.00 per year

Benefits: