Relief Independent Mental Health Advocate - Bedfordshire, United Kingdom - Together for Mental Wellbeing

Together for Mental Wellbeing
Together for Mental Wellbeing
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Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ000615NEW
Date posted

  • 30/11/2023
Application closing date

  • 30/01/2024
Location

  • Blank
Salary
- £13.60 per hour.

Package

  • Varying positions available (Birmingham, Northampton & Essex)
Contractual hours

  • 0
Basis

  • Casual
Job category/type

  • Blank
Relief Staff Required

This is a zero hours relief posisiton.

Applicants must possess the National Advocacy Qualification Level 4.


This role is patient facing so applicants must be able to commute to St Andrews hospital in either Birmingham, Northampton or Essex.

(Not a requirement to travel to all 3)


Together is an amazing place to work and it's not just because we're one of the UK's oldest and most respected mental health charities.

It's because we put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do - supporting and enabling them to take control of their lives and make a positive contribution to the community.

We are currently recruiting for an Independent Mental Health Advocates for our new service within St Andrew's Healthcare. The post is based within a medium and low secure hospital for men and women with Mental illness, Learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neuropsychiatry

  • Experience of working within Advocacy or a care setting and understanding of the issues involved in providing independent Advocacy.
  • To provide Independent Mental Health Advocacy and generic advocacy to qualifying patients including people detained under specific sections of the Mental Health Act '8
  • To work with individual patients to provide information, support, and representation in order to assist them in any decisionmaking process affecting their care, treatment, legal status or other aspects of their daily lives.
  • To raise awareness of Advocacy, Independent Mental Health Advocacy and the service to other professionals, individuals, and other agencies.
  • To work with groups of patients on the wards, to assist them in developing and expressing a collective point of view.
  • A DBS is required for this post.
  • To maintain detailed cases notes and accurate statistical data.
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