Living Well Mental Health Wellbeing Coach

We are hiring a Living Well Mental Health Wellbeing Coach

Are you a dynamic, knowledgeable person ?

You will join a new team to prototype the new neighbourhood mental health Derbyshire Living Well model.

In February 2020, NHS England published a new Community Mental Health Framework (CMHF), which is a 3 year NHS programme aiming to improve care for people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI). In Derbyshire this new way to offer holistic health and wellbeing support is called ‘Living Well Derbyshire’.

Derbyshire Recovery & Peer Support Service provide recovery services to people in the community and supports them in long term recovery through peer activity. An extension of this is the living well Hubs which is in collaboration with the NHS Trust underpinning this is Peer support development and training. The service has an over service contract manager and managers located in areas across Derbyshire who support teams of coaches including those with lived experience

As a Mental Wellbeing Coach you will:

• Manage a caseload of individuals with complex needs
• Provide coaching support to individuals on a 1:1 or group basis giving information, guidance, advice and support
• Support individuals to develop ‘My Story’- a way of telling their story, capturing their goals and co-design a journey of support
• Provide emotional and practical support to individuals- building confidence and skills and grow their ability to self-manage their mental wellbeing
• Connect individuals to appropriate interventions e.g. housing advice, debt support, education etc.

We are looking for an individual who:

• Has experience working with individuals with multifaceted mental health needs and complexity- including serious mental illness
• Genuinely cares about making a difference and is motivated to improve mental health outcomes for people and their communities.
• Has Health & social care qualification or willing to work towards
• Has experience managing caseloads of individuals with complex disadvantage
• Has a working knowledge and understanding of mental health and the ability to recognise the indicators of deteriorating mental health
• Has ability to travel across High Peak and North Dales area

You may also have:

• a good knowledge of the local Mental Health and Health and Social Care landscape
• knowledge of community navigation and social prescribing models

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Don’t meet all requirements?

If the role sounds exciting to you but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t exactly match every single requirement, we would still encourage you to apply, you may be just the right person for our position!

Caring for our people.

We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:

• PULSE – your rewards, wellbeing, and benefits platform. Providing access to thousands of discounts and benefits including cashback; reloadable cards; savings etc.
• Wellbeing support: Our Wellbeing hub that gives physical, and mental health support. We also have an Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments
• Taking time for you: we work flexibly –you get to choose where you work, managing your own diary. We have generous annual leave, starting at 25 rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays, as well as your birthday off.
• Planning for the future: We have a contributory pension scheme.
• Structured Induction: Onboarding you into the Charity supporting your wellbeing along the way.
• £300 when you introduce a Friend: receive up to £300 when you introduce a friend or family member

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks for our Black, Asian and minority ethnic and our LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation

We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrate our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and (asexual) (LGBTQIA+), people with a disability, and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

If you have any questions about the position, please email -