Job description
Job title: Next Steps Project Coordinator
Salary: £25,862 pro rata
Hours of Work:21 hours per week. Occasional unsocial hours
Working may be necessary. No payment will
be made for any overtime worked. Time off
in lieu will be taken instead in agreement with Line Manager.
Terms & Conditions:6 Month Probationary period
5 weeks holiday per annum (pro rata)
Employers Stakeholder Pension Scheme 5% of annual salary on completion of probationary period
Key Aim of the Project
The project’s key aim is to ensure that the voices of people with mental health conditions are heard in order to:
Improve local mental health services; play a constructive role in service planning
and delivery; tackle the stigma and discrimination people face in their daily life. By involving a large number of people in the project we aim to increase wellbeing, confidence, self-esteem and reduce social isolation. We will therefore have a stronger community as a result of greater inclusion and less stigma and discrimination. It is hoped that the aims of this project will be recognised by local mental health providers as being a model of excellence in service user representation and involvement.
Key Objectives
- Increase service user representatives’ life skills through the provision of training, peer to peer support and a buddy system
- Increase confidence and skills of service user representatives so they can play an active role in the design and delivery of local community health policy.
- Increase confidence and skills of service user representatives to enable them to challenge stigma and discrimination faced by people with lived experience of mental health issues
- Increase the number of service users who provide feedback to service user representatives they would not otherwise disclose to mental health staff.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To be responsible for the day-to-day running of the project including:
- Lead on recruitment of service user representatives
- Carry out and complete a training needs analysis, identifying skills and gaps in learning.
- Supervision of service user representatives
- Matching service user representative with a buddy
- To be the primary contact person for the service user representatives
- Manage the team by leading and motivating in a supportive manner
- Maintain regular project meetings.
- To be responsible for developing and managing monitoring systems and submitting monitoring reports and evaluation of the project to funders
- To meet all agreed deadline, targets and outcomes
- To update and maintain the database to record all information relating to the delivery of the project.
- Lead on the design of a public awareness workshop around the issue of mental health including stigma and discrimination.
- Lead on the engagement with the wider community including schools and local business people to participate in a mental health awareness workshop.
- At all times work within Redbridge Concern for Mental Health policies including Equal Opportunities, Health & Safety at Work and other good management policies.
- Attend regular supervision meeting with line manager
- To work outside of normal office hours , within reason, if required
- To carry out all other tasks as are commensurate with the post.