Job summary
Mind in Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster is looking for a part-time Health Engagement Worker. The candidate will work with existing partners in targeted support of successfully engaging with those on the SMI register in accessing and attending physical health checks. The candidate offers outreach and engagement, to support people with SMI to access their annual comprehensive physical health check.
Main duties of the job
Operational
Accountable for leading all activities within Community Programmes
portfolio including, but is not limited to:
Offer outreach and engagement, to support people
with SMI to access their annual comprehensive physical health check.
Conduct
an outreach program to reach people with Severe Mental
Illness (SMI) who are not currently accessing annual, comprehensive, physical
health checks and
Raise awareness
about eligibility for people living with SMI (priority group 6)
Provide support
for people with SMI to access physical health checks and discussing their
concerns
- Check the Job Description for more details about main duties.
About us
Were a leading
community-based organisation dedicated to providing outstanding mental health
support and clinical interventions across London. Our experienced clinically
led teams are focused on directly addressing a range of mental health needs in
our communities. We combine innovative solutions with decades of local
community knowledge to empower people to live the life they choose. We partner
with the NHS and local authorities to deliver clinically driven frontline
services with fantastic outcomes. We focus on early intervention and
prevention, targeting mental health conditions at the most cost-effective
stage, while also supporting people with moderate to severe mental health needs
across our communities.
Why work for us?
Hybrid-working.
Life-changing work.
Learning and development opportunities.
Passionate and professional workforce.
Diversity and Inclusion.
Flexi time.
Cycle to work scheme.
Access to Employee Assistance Programme.
Birthday leave.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please check Job description to ensure
that you meet the requirements of the role.
Deadline for submission of application
is: 25th August2024
Please note, we may close applications
early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please check Job description to ensure
that you meet the requirements of the role.
Deadline for submission of application
is: 25th August2024
Please note, we may close applications
early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Excellent project coordination skills, with a track record of delivering
- against targets and objectives
- - Previous experience of working in a public or voluntary sector
- environment, in particular health or social care
- - Good organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting
- priorities
- - Good people skills - experience of face-to-face public engagement
- - Engaging and working productively with a wide range of both
- internal and external stakeholders
- - Experience of influencing others, with the ability to adjust
- communications style as necessary
- - Ability to be creative and flexible in working with individuals
- - Ability to maintain confidentiality and to deal sensitively and
- diplomatically with a range of people
- - Ability to communicate confidently and effectively, both verbally and
- in writing, including excellent telephone skills
- - Ability to work on own initiative
- - Ability to use Email and IT packages and to use these to record
- monitoring and evaluation data
- - Ability to work to specific KPIs and prepare reports for submission to
- funders
- - Understanding of, and a personal commitment to, Equality and
- Diversity and how this applies - in particular to mental health services
- - Experience of using creative approaches to reaching communities that
- have not historically engaged with mental health / health services
- - Able to use public transport as part of being community based.
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Excellent project coordination skills, with a track record of delivering
- against targets and objectives
- - Previous experience of working in a public or voluntary sector
- environment, in particular health or social care
- - Good organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting
- priorities
- - Good people skills - experience of face-to-face public engagement
- - Engaging and working productively with a wide range of both
- internal and external stakeholders
- - Experience of influencing others, with the ability to adjust
- communications style as necessary
- - Ability to be creative and flexible in working with individuals
- - Ability to maintain confidentiality and to deal sensitively and
- diplomatically with a range of people
- - Ability to communicate confidently and effectively, both verbally and
- in writing, including excellent telephone skills
- - Ability to work on own initiative
- - Ability to use Email and IT packages and to use these to record
- monitoring and evaluation data
- - Ability to work to specific KPIs and prepare reports for submission to
- funders
- - Understanding of, and a personal commitment to, Equality and
- Diversity and how this applies - in particular to mental health services
- - Experience of using creative approaches to reaching communities that
- have not historically engaged with mental health / health services
- - Able to use public transport as part of being community based.
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
