Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 1st April 2025
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Mental Health Community Care Navigator to work as part of our Community Mental Health Team.
Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values. We draw on the expertise, unique perspectives and lived experience of our people – regardless of who they are or their background – to help us become inclusive and anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider that reflect the diverse communities we support as a mental health charity.
I will be integrated in a primary care setting and will work alongside mental health and primary care professionals to support people with personalised support. Specific to the role will be supporting mental health service users, with continuation of care and support to address the broader social determinants of health and wellbeing. I will ensure people are linked to appropriate community health, social care and voluntary sector services and support networks.; reducing the risk of social exclusion or mental health relapse. You will also direct people into specialist mental health services where appropriate and support people throughout their journey.
How you will make a difference
Reporting into the Primary Care Mental Health Liaison Practitioner, you will be fully integrated into a multi-disciplinary team working alongside mental health and primary care professionals to support service users with personalised support, and most importantly delivering great outcomes for people using services. You will proactively engage with service users, identify non-clinical needs and provide the relevant support and guidance required to improve the patient’s mental wellbeing and quality of life.
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.
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