Mental Wellbeing Manager - Woking, United Kingdom - Surrey County Council

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The starting salary for this role is £14,512 per annum (pro rata to £35,382 FTE), working 14.4 hours per week.
This is an extremely exciting time to join the Active Surrey team. We are now into our journey of Surrey's 10-year physical activity strategy, Movement for Change.

You will support in delivering the aims of the strategy with a particular focus on prevention,in relation to adopting a healthy lifestyle, in particular for people experiencing poor mental health.

As the _Active Partnership_ for Surrey, we believe that movement matters. It matters to our health, our schools, our communities, and our environments.

Focused on tackling inactivity and inequality, we work together to help everyone in Surrey realisethe benefits of a more active way of life by influencing systems, removing barriers, and creating opportunities to get people moving more.


Our vision is that everyone in Surrey, but with a particular focus on those who need it most, embrace moving more, to improve health and wellbeing and to thrive as an active community.


Reporting to the Head of Active Communities, this role will be part of the dynamic and supportive Active Communities Team and will also work closely with local and national partners including Public Health, National Governing Bodies of Sport, boroughs anddistricts, and the Active Partnerships network.


You will support Surrey County Council's approach to building capacity through developing training, that takes a community-based approach, targeted towards men in particular.

The purpose of the role will be to support the mental health and wellbeing of menin Surrey, improve links between physical and mental health and build capacity by engaging with priority groups and delivering training, in particular Mental Health First Aid and Mental Health Aware.


  • Proven expertise and experience in successfully working with men/male target groups and knowledge of effective approaches to addressing stigma when discussing mental health with this group
  • Knowledge and experience of working in the area of mental health/wellbeing, and/or lived experience
  • Project management skills: proven ability to design, implement and delegate actions as appropriate, and monitor and evaluate projects
  • Motivated, able to lead a topic, use initiative and work fairly independently to deliver outcomes and implement workable solutions
  • Partnership working and people skills: proven ability to establish and maintain good relationships with a range of stakeholders

At Surrey, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities. They shape who we are as an organisation. Find out more about thevalueswe follow.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 26/02/2023.

Interviews will be held in the first week of March.


An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.


Benefits
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role.

You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years'service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme.

For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit
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