Mental Health & Wellbeing College Coordinator

As Mental Health & Wellbeing College Coordinator, you will be managing the day to day running of the South Tyneside Recovery College service whilst developing our countywide offer through co-design and collaborative based work. This will be a rewarding and meaningful role for anyone with an interest in working with people experiencing mental health difficulties and those with lived experience.

Duties and responsibilities

• Plan and organise day-to-day tasks within the college and work to agreed plans for tasks required within the termly cycle to support with day-to-day operations.
• Provide effective support in the maintenance of budgets to assist with cost centre spend in line with the NRC service budget.
• Monitor the service to ensure that the South Tyneside Recovery College meets all relevant quality standards, and achieves the key delivery targets/outcomes to meet expectations within commissioning contracts.
• Assist with contract monitoring arrangements, such as collecting and reporting on monthly key performance indicator data, impact analysis and review processes, to keep in line with contractual requirements.
• Provide effective line management of Peer Support Workers including HR processes to support high quality delivery.
• Co-design the service with people with lived experience are at the core of the way that the Recovery College delivers services in line with service improvement
• Deliver courses both face to face and via digital platforms using a range of learning aids to provide inclusive training that is accessible countywide.
• Undertake any reasonable duties/responsibilities to meet the needs of the organisation.

About you

• Demonstrable experience of working with individuals and communities on areas of mental health improvement.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a team with associated HR processes
• Demonstrable experience in VCSE, health or social care sector
• Demonstrable experience of building networks in community based projects
• Demonstrable experience of developing and delivering training programmes and or group-work.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging stakeholders and partners.
• Demonstrable experience of planning, organising and scheduling activities for self and others, across a variety of venues and liaising with internal and external partners.
• Understanding of national and local organisations and other resources that can support individuals to improve and maintain good metal health.
• Developed communication skills, orally and in writing
• Developed relationship building skills
• Developed interpersonal skills
• Developed IT skills including Office 365
• High level of enthusiasm and motivation
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to undertake CPD as part of your role
• Ability to work individually or within a team and foster good working relationships

What we offer in return:

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years’ service) and the option to purchase or sell day
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream - ability to release earnings, giving you instant access to your pay
• Smart Clinic Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
• Plus, many more great benefits on offer

Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQI+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, once we have received a sufficient number of applications, we reserve the right to expire vacancies, so please submit your application as soon as possible.