Mental Health Coordinator - Stevenage, United Kingdom - Herts Mind Network

Herts Mind Network

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Stevenage, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to support
children and young people with mental health issues or emotional wellbeing needs?

Are you calm, non-judgemental and able to work effectively with people experiencing distress?

Can you demonstrate our values of
Hope, Empathy, Respect, Integrity and Excellence and want to be part of our mission to create opportunities for individuals to make choices, find their own solutions, build resilience and manage their wholelife and wellbeing?

If the answer to all of these is yes, we want to hear from you.

**Job title: CYP Coordinator - With YOUth (Early Help Digital Intervention Service Children and Young People)

Reference: 121

Salary grade:
£23,500 - £25,000 per annum incl. Outer London Weighting pro rata

Contracted hours: 37.5 hours to be worked flexibly across a 7-day week, between the hours of 2pm - 10pm, excluding bank holidays.

Working base:

Watford Wellbeing Centre (expectation of working in our Centres across Hertfordshire and from home)**We have a vacancy for a CYP Coordinator to join our With YOUth team.

About the Project
Hertfordshire Mind Network (HMN) have been awarded Hertfordshire's CAMHS Early Help Digital Intervention Service. The Children & Young People (CYP)

Coordinator will be responsible for implementing and delivering this innovative partnership between BfB Labsand HMN.

Together, we will provide a countywide early help digital intervention service that is accessible to children and young people aged 5-18, at the earliest point of an emerging emotional wellbeing and/or mental health need.

The service will operatebetween 14:00 - 22:00 seven days a week.

The objectives of the CAMHS Early Help Digital Intervention Service are to:

Promote resilience and strategies that encourage coping and self-management for CYP, enabling a reduction in referrals to more specialist provision.
Increase the number of CYP who access evidencebased mental health interventions.
Ensure more CYP in Hertfordshire have improved awareness and knowledge about emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Develop an early intervention pathway for children and young people to enable individuals to get timely, responsive support aligned to their needs.
Reduce waiting times for CAMHS by providing a timely and effective early help service.
Help parents and carers to better support their CYP through access to relevant, clear and accessible information about mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Provide a safe and secure online environment for CYP.
Reduce the number of CYP experiencing a relapse in their mental health.
Contribute to the destigmatisation of mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Purpose of Post

Our trauma-informed model offers a range of support options for CYP, based around digital interventions and supported by one-to-one and group sessions, so children and young people can engage in the way that works best for them.

The service will build resiliencein CYP by working with them to develop coping strategies and solutions that will enable them to improve their own health and wellbeing.

We will also provide advice and guidance to parents/families/carers and professionals to provide a holistic response tosupporting CYP and creating a network around them to empower and enable positive change.

As CYP Coordinator, you will deliver online interventions as well as managing and motivating a team of CYP support workers to deliver this new and exciting, high quality service in accordance with contractual requirements, and ensure that we are supportingthe needs and aspirations of Hertfordshire residents.

We are looking for passionate, creative and committed individuals who wants to support children and young people to thrive.

We offer:

Annual leave entitlement of 22 days per year pro rata, rising in increments to a max. of 28 days after 5 years employment (plus 8 days Bank Holidays)
An additional day of leave each year for your birthday following completion of probation period.
Ongoing training relevant to your role.
An Employee Assistance Programme.
Health cover (after 6 months employment) compensation payment for Optical, Dental, Chiropody and Therapy Treatments.

Closing date:
Monday 2nd January 2023.

Interview date:
Interviews to be held Monday 9th January 2023.

Interested?

Equal Opportunities
Hertfordshire Mind Network is committed to the Disability Confident and Mindful Employer charters. We actively recruit staff who have a lived experience of mental ill health.

We recognise and value the unique combination of skills, knowledge and perspectivethat employing people with a lived experience, at all levels across the organisation, brings.

We are delighted to have been accredited as a Living Wage Employer.

No agencies please.