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Simon's Story
Simons tell us about how after accessing support from our Gosport & Fareham Wellbeing Center, he began volunteering there to give something back.
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Working at Solent Mind will give you a friendly and flexible working environment, excellent benefits, training opportunities and above all: a place where you can use your lived experiences to really make a difference.
You'll find information on how to apply at the end of each advert. Sorry but we can't accept CV's for any of our vacancies or applications from recruitment agencies.
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Here are just some of the benefits you can expect as a Solent Mind employee:
25 days annual leave rising incrementally to 30 days per year for staff on permanent full time or part time contracts and pro-rata for part time staff.
1 month full pay and 1 month half pay for permanent staff after completing 3 months service. This increases to 2 months full pay and 2 months half pay after 12 months continuous service and then rises after 24 months continuous service to a maximum entitlement of 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay. Sick pay is pro-rata for part time staff, just like holiday entitlement.
We offer flexible working to promote a healthy work life balance.
The benefit of enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave payments.
Access to our trusted Employee Assistance Programme providing free bitesize wellbeing support over the phone and structured counselling services.
A dedicated learning and development budget that supports the training of our staff; covering both current role requirements and future development needs identified through appraisals and supervisions.
A Specsavers voucher for a full eye test and help towards the cost of glasses specifically for VDU use or a financial contribution towards an eye test and the cost of glasses specifically for VDU use with your existing eye test provider.
An interest-free season ticket loan for travel to work and access to a Cycle to Work Scheme, open to all members of staff after completing three months service.
Join working groups across the organisation and share your experiences, passions and contribute to our policies and strategies, from Equality and Diversity to Environmental and green issues.
Become part of a friendly, welcoming and understanding team where you can truly bring your whole self to work, mental health challenges included.
We encourage all staff to share their experiences if they want to, as we start conversations and challenge the stigma associated with mental illness. You don't have to share anything if you don't want to, but if you do, we can give you the platform and support to share your story.
Job Details:
About the role
Over the next year, we are expecting around 5 of our existing contracts to come up for re-tender. We are determined to position ourselves to be in the best possible place to sustain these and support the mental health needs of our communities.
Achieving this goal will require our services to actively demonstrate that they respond to the needs of both our communities and commissioners; meet both best practice guidelines and possibilities for greater service integration, whilst also delivering best value. This role will help achieve this goal through identifying opportunities for service transformation. As new service models and projects are developed, the role will also work alongside our operational Heads of Service to effectively and sustainably roll out change.
About you
You have knowledge and understanding of working in the mental health space. An experienced change leader and project manager who is interested in working with us to improve future ways of working. A strategic thinker who can build partnerships and collaboration, but is just as comfortable getting into the detail and using data analysis and process mapping expertise to help services get ready for change. Ideally you will have tender experience (from working with the NHS).
About us
Solent Mind is a mental health charity, supporting people to develop positive mental wellbeing, live well and thrive. Last year, our 400 strong team supported 45,000 people with their mental health across Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth. We are part of the Mind Federation. Solent Mind has a Gold award for Workplace Wellbeing Index 2022/2023 and has signed up to be a Mindful Employer.
Staff Benefits We Can Offer You:
For More Details On This Role Please Email:
DBS NOTE TO APPLICANTS - We have assessed this role as requiring a Standard level of disclosure.
We welcome applications from all of the communities in which we work. Appointments are made on merit.
We reserve the right to end any vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, please submit your application as early as possible.
HOW TO APPLY:
The full details and applications for this role are only available via our Recruitment Portal.
Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
This will automatically take you to our ‘Current Job Vacancies & Volunteering Opportunities’ page in our Recruitment Portal.
Enter the name of this role in the ‘Job Title’ section at the top of the page.
Click on ‘Search’ at the bottom of the page.
Once in the job details, you will be able to view the job description and complete your application.
Job Details:
About the role:
The Employment Advisor's role is to deliver the core employment support provision in NHS TT to provide employment advice, skills based interventions, information and practical support to help people who are looking to return to work or to retain their current employment.
The role will involve working with a caseload of clients with common mental health problems to provide interventions to enable them gain or retain their employment, exchange to a more suitable job role, or return to their current employment after a period of sickness absence from work.
You will work directly with Job Centre Plus, employers and employment agencies to keep people in employment and secure employment opportunities.
About you:
This would suit some-one with experience of providing high quality vocational/employment support and/or experience of working within an employee relations environment. If you have a sound understanding of the employment needs, barriers and difficulties faced by people with Mental Health conditions together with excellent IT skills, communication skills, both written and verbal this could be the role for you.
About us:
Successful candidates will be employed by Solent Mind. We are proud to support our team in building their clinical skills and developing their own areas of interest and expertise. We offer regular additional training, monthly ‘Special Interest Groups’ and regularly offer opportunities to be involved in exciting, new projects. In addition, we offer the opportunity to develop clinical skills through Continuing Professional Development training, offering opportunities to work with Long Term Health Conditions, Behavioural Experiments, OCD and Health Anxiety.
The NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire service is run in partnership by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Solent Mind.
Solent Mind is a mental health charity, supporting people to develop positive mental wellbeing, live well and thrive. Last year, our 400 strong team supported 45,000 people with their mental health across Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth. We are part of the Mind Federation. Solent Mind has a Gold award for Workplace Wellbeing Index 2022/2023 and has signed up to be a Mindful Employer.
Staff Benefits We Can Offer You:
For More Details On This Role Please Email:
DBS NOTE TO APPLICANTS - We have assessed this role as requiring an Enhanced (Adult & Child) & Barred (Child) level of disclosure.
We welcome applications from all of the communities in which we work. Appointments are made on merit.
We reserve the right to end any vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, please submit your application as early as possible.
HOW TO APPLY:
The full details and applications for this role are only available via our Recruitment Portal.
Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
This will automatically take you to our ‘Current Job Vacancies & Volunteering Opportunities’ page in our Recruitment Portal.
Enter the name of this role in the ‘Job Title’ section at the top of the page.
Click on ‘Search’ at the bottom of the page.
Once in the job details, you will be able to view the job description and complete your application.
Job Details:
About the role
Solent Mind is a partner in the new Primary Level Mental Health Service covering Eastleigh Health Primary Care Network comprising Eastleigh Health Centre, Parkside Family Practice, and St Andrews. This service will enhance the support which GP practices are able to offer their patients with a range of mental health issues through a collaborative and integrative approach.
This service has been developed to enhance the mental health care which the GP’s are able to offer their patients through a collaborative and integrative approach across the three practices and associated services.
About you
As a Wellbeing Assessor, you will undertake assessments of patients in order to understand their individual needs and identify the most appropriate support for them, working collaboratively with other partners in the Primary Care Mental Health Service and associated organisations.
About us
Solent Mind is a mental health charity, supporting people to develop positive mental wellbeing, live well and thrive. Last year, our 400 strong team supported 45,000 people with their mental health across Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth. We are part of the Mind Federation. Solent Mind has a Gold award for Workplace Wellbeing Index 2022/2023 and has signed up to be a Mindful Employer.
Staff Benefits We Can Offer You:
For More Details On This Role Please Email:
DBS NOTE TO APPLICANTS - We have assessed this role as requiring an Enhanced (Adult & Child) & Barred (Adult & Child) level of disclosure.
We welcome applications from all of the communities in which we work. Appointments are made on merit.
We reserve the right to end any vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, please submit your application as early as possible.
HOW TO APPLY:
The full details and applications for this role are only available via our Recruitment Portal.
Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
This will automatically take you to our ‘Current Job Vacancies & Volunteering Opportunities’ page in our Recruitment Portal.
Enter the name of this role in the ‘Job Title’ section at the top of the page.
Click on ‘Search’ at the bottom of the page.
Once in the job details, you will be able to view the job description and complete your application.
Job Details:
About the role
Fareham and Gosport Wellbeing service is looking to recruit a PCN Wellbeing Advisor. To be based in PCN surgeries in the Fareham and Gosport Localities.
In this role you will hold a caseload of patients offering assessments & 1-1 sessions to help manage mental health Wellbeing. You will attend meetings to enable patients to get the best service for them. You will support people to access groups and activities within our wellbeing centre and the community. You will use your skills and experience to work directly with people with mental health issues one to one settings, include telephone, face to face and online engagement, this may on occasion include group facilitation.
About you
You will need to have a good understanding of a mental health issue, as well as experience of working with people with mental health needs, excellent communication skills and a strong understanding of the key difficulties and challenges faced by people on their recovery journey. You will need good IT skills and be able to navigate different IT systems.
About us
Solent Mind is a mental health charity, supporting people to develop positive mental wellbeing, live well and thrive. Last year, our 400 strong team supported 45,000 people with their mental health across Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth. We are part of the Mind Federation. Solent Mind has a Gold award for Workplace Wellbeing Index 2022/2023 and has signed up to be a Mindful Employer.
Staff Benefits We Can Offer You:
For More Details On This Role Please Email:
DBS NOTE TO APPLICANTS - We have assessed this role as requiring an Enhanced (Adult & Child) & Barred (Adult & Child) level of disclosure.
We welcome applications from all of the communities in which we work. Appointments are made on merit.
We reserve the right to end any vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, please submit your application as early as possible.
HOW TO APPLY:
The full details and applications for this role are only available via our Recruitment Portal.
Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
This will automatically take you to our ‘Current Job Vacancies & Volunteering Opportunities’ page in our Recruitment Portal.
Enter the name of this role in the ‘Job Title’ section at the top of the page.
Click on ‘Search’ at the bottom of the page.
Once in the job details, you will be able to view the job description and complete your application.
Sue's experiences of accessing mental health services has empowered her to give help and hope to others through Peer Support.
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Simons tell us about how after accessing support from our Gosport & Fareham Wellbeing Center, he began volunteering there to give something back.
Read more about Simon's Story