Mental Health Centre Co-Ordinator

REPORTING TO

Team Leader of Resource and Counselling Services

STAFF REPORTING TO POST

Mental health workers and mental health support worker

CONDITIONS

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary: €40,209

Base: Shine Cork, 14a Washington Street, Cork City and some travel for meetings will be required

PURPOSE

  • Promote the aims and objectives of Shine
  • Promote and model recovery ethos and values
  • Ensuring the effective day to day running of the Cork centre
  • Managing and supervising staff team

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Ensure the smooth operation of the Shine Cork Centre building
  • Manage and ensure effective operation and delivery of the Shine Mental Health Resource Centre service
  • Oversee the daily centre operations and coordinates centre activities
  • Manage, lead and supervise staff team
  • Manage the local centre programme budget
  • Ongoing monitoring, evaluation and improvement of programme activities
  • Work in partnership from a person centred recovery approach with Shine users
  • Completion of programme and administrative reports and data recording as required by Shine
  • Partnership working with all Shine Cork services
  • Liaison with relevant funding agencies
  • Liaison with other external statutory, community and voluntary organisations as required
  • Participation in planning and development meetings as required
  • Acting as the public representative of the Centre
  • Work within and ensure staff compliance with all Shine Policy and Procedures and national legislation and best practice guidelines.

CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

  • A commitment to the ethos of recovery and person centredness in service delivery
  • Experience of delivering recovery and person centred service
  • Strong communication, listening and project management skills
  • Strong leadership, management and supervision skills
  • Creative and Solution focused

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Recognised level 8 or higher qualification in Mental Health or related subject
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience working within mental health
  • Minimum of 2 years’ supervisory/management experience
  • Understanding of complex impact of mental health on life
  • Experience of working to an ethos of person centred services and recovery ethos and values within Mental Health
  • Proficient in Windows and Microsoft packages

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS

  • Management training/qualification
  • Broad range of outside interests and skills that you are willing to share or incorporate into your work

PERSON SPECIFICATION

  • Flexible
  • Calm manner, particularly when presented with distressing situations
  • Ability to lead within a team and to implement change
  • Empathetic and non-judgemental

Conditions of Application:

Application is by official Shine Application form ONLY. Curriculum Vitae (C.V.’s) will not be accepted

Send your completed Application Form in Microsoft Word or PDF format to before 4pm, Wednesday 6th of June 2018. In the e-mail subject line enter Cork MHCoOrd.

Please rename your completed application form with your name e.g. Joe_Bloggs_MHW_Application

Application Deadline: 4pm, Wednesday 6th of June 2018

Interviews will be scheduled for the third in June

Conditions of Appointment:

All offers of posts are subject to Garda Vetting approval and completion of HSELand Children First E-learning programme prior to commencement of employment.

NOTE: Due to the anticipated large number of applicants, we will not be able to reply to unsuccessful candidates. We thank you for your interest and appreciate the time and effort you have taken to apply for the post on offer.