Senior Community Connector - Mental Health

Community Links is a hub tackling health and social inequality in East London and beyond. We work alongside the community helping people of all ages reach their full potential. We take our local knowledge of what works to influence national decision making. We are proud to be part of Catch22.

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Job Description

The Community Connectors programme is an exciting partnership between Community Links, Aston Mansfield, Mind in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge, and the NHS East London Foundation Trust (ELFT).

Community Connectors work alongside ELFT under what is called the Mental Health Transformation Programme. The ethos of the programme is recovery focused, exploring needs through complexity (rather than diagnosis), a focus on a person’s strengths and assets, and on the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.

The Senior Community Connector will work alongside Community Connectors, providing supervision, caseload reviews, guidance, and day to day support, as well as managing a smaller caseload of people living with a serious mental illness or SMI. Specifically, the Senior Community Connector will lead on work developing strong relationships with multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) who work with primary care networks or PCNs (clusters of GP practices) across Newham. These MDTs are organised into two Community Integrated Mental Health Services (CIMHS) teams, linked to PCNs within Newham.

The Senior Community Connector will help to identify themes and emerging need, develop further support pathways for service users, and be an important link between local experts and local assets.

The Senior Community Connector will be supported by Community Links management to ensure the Community Connector team remains a vibrant, dynamic, and high performing team, meeting key programme aims and objectives.

The Senior Community Connector will work with ELFT as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme. The ethos of the programme is recovery focused, exploring needs through complexity (rather than diagnosis), a focus on a person’s strengths and assets, and on the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.

Above all, the Senior Community Connector will act as an ambassador for the Community Connector team, programme, and vision – with an emphasis on ensuring strong awareness/publicity of the value that the role and programme brings to the Mental Health Transformation programme and the people it serves.

Your formal location will be within one of the CIMHS teams in Newham as well as Community Links at 105 Barking Road London E16 4HQ.

Qualifications

Essential competencies

• University degree and/or professional qualification.
• Local knowledge of services, provisions, and issues faced by people suffering from mental health
• Experience working with stakeholders and partnerships.
• A commitment in implementing the mission and values of Community Links.
• Any other duties deemed relevant to your role.
  
  

The above is not exhaustive. Required qualifications and person specification can be accessed here.

Additional Information

Those interested in applying for this opportunity should review the Job Description to find out more. If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please see our contact information on the Candidate Help Page. Please use reference REF3780T in your message so that we can identify the opportunity.

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Contract: Permanent

Hours & work pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week.

Salary: £35,000

Location: Community Links, Barking Road - London. Your formal location will be within one of the CIMHS teams in Newham as well as Community Links at 105 Barking Road London E16 4HQ.

Screening: Successful admission to post subject to enhanced DBS check and employer Right To Work in the UK check. The post-holder must have right to work in the UK. Catch22 does not currently provide a licence to sponsor visas but please see this register to see those that do.

To Apply: Please provide your CV and cover letter, along with the completion of the screening questions to express your interest in this opportunity. Please note, in the interest of safer recruitment and ensuring that applicants are a right fit for the role, submitted applications must contain a CV, satisfactory responses to the screening questions, and information detailing interest in the role, to be considered for this position.

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Catch22’s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have “Banned the Box”. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead, we invite disclosures at interview stage, and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see our statement of commitment on hiring people with convictions for more information.