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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.
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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
The main purpose of this role is to develop and deliver our approach to maintain and grow corporate fundraising income, to support our mission to improve mental health in Hampshire. You will join us at an exciting time, having just launched our new three-year strategy, and this role is pivotal in helping us achieve our strategic ambitions in the years ahead.
The role is to lead the corporate fundraising activities for Solent Mind, which have grown significantly over the last five years. This will include maximising support through Charity of the Year relationships and participation in activities, events and challenges in aid of Solent Mind, and by securing one-off gifts in support of Solent Mind. You will research and build our corporate pipeline and support the delivery of our wider employer engagement which covers all aspects of employment engagement including fundraising, training and mental health employer service.
This role is within Solent Mind’s fundraising and external engagement team, and the successful candidate will manage and be supported by the Corporate Fundraising Officer.
About you
You will be an experienced corporate fundraiser or have relevant relationship fundraising or B2B sales experience, together with a proven track record in meeting and exceeding financial and other targets. You will be an effective communicator with excellent written and presentation skills. You should possess good negotiating and influencing skills, as well as excellent relationship management skills, and be highly pro-active and skilled in generating new business leads and moving warm prospects through the ‘sales’ cycle.
You will demonstrate the ability to motivate and develop your direct reports and will ideally have experience supervising both staff and volunteers.
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.
In Return 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 and Child) & Barred (Child) level of disclosure.
We encourage applications from all communities we serve and actively welcome individuals who have lived or shared experience of mental health to apply for roles at Solent Mind. Appointments are based on merit.
Please note that we may close vacancies before the advertised closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Therefore, we recommend submitting 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
Step 2 and 3 of the NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire service is provided in partnership by Solent Mind (Step 2) and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Step 3). PWP’s are employed by Solent Mind to deliver low intensity support.
This role involves attending the PWP training course at Reading University to learn how to deliver low intensity evidence-based interventions in the NICE guidelines. The successful candidate will work with the service to deliver assessments and treatments for mild to moderate symptoms of common mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety.
The range of treatments you may provide would include one-to-one guided self-help via telephone & video, with the opportunity to offer face-to-face in addition to cCBT programmes, webinars, workshops and psycho-educational groups.
Key information
We have three office hubs. Please specify your first and second preference for your office hub in your application.
WEST HUB: Black Horse House, 3rd Floor, 8-10 Leigh Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO50 9FH
EAST HUB: Basepoint Business Centre, Aerodrome Rd, Gosport PO13 0FQ
NORTH HUB: Basingstoke Fire Station (The Annex), West Ham Roundabout, Old Worting Rd, Basingstoke RG22 6PD
Wherever possible we will try to offer your first choice, but sometimes due to supervision or office space we may not be able to. In this case, we can make note your preference for when a vacancy in your preferred hub does arise.
There will be two interview stages:
We will be hosting a webinar on 05 Nov 2024 if you’d like to learn more about the role and course.
About you
This position is ideal for someone is looking to start/further a career within NHS Talking Therapies who has experience working with mental health in a professional capacity. This includes volunteering in a mental health setting or working in a role with transferable experience e.g. a teacher with safeguarding responsibilities.
We are looking for someone who is confident in their ability to manage both the clinical and academic workload whilst maintaining their own wellbeing and boundaries.
You will need to be enthusiastic about supporting people with empathy and has a strong understanding of mental health. We especially value lived experience of mental health and navigating mental health services.
Any offer for this role is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Check.
About us
Successful candidates will be employed by Solent Mind. NHSTT Hampshire are proud to support our team in building their clinical skills and developing their own areas of interest and expertise. Once Qualified, 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.
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.
In Return 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 encourage applications from all communities we serve and actively welcome individuals who have lived or shared experience of mental health to apply for roles at Solent Mind. Appointments are based on merit.
Please note that we may close vacancies before the advertised closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Therefore, we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.
HOW TO APPLY:
Applications for this role can only be made via NHS Jobs.
Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below which will automatically take you to this role
where you can read the full details, see the Job Description and complete your application.
Job Details:
About the role:
Step 2 and 3 of the NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire service is provided in partnership by Solent Mind (step 2) and Southern Health NHS Foundation (step 3). Qualified PWP’s are employed by Solent Mind to deliver support to step 2 patients.
This role involves delivering assessments as well as evidenced-based low intensity CBT interventions for those with mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety disorders. The range of treatments you may provide would include one-to-one guided self-help via telephone & video, with the opportunity to offer face-to-face in addition to cCBT programmes, webinars, workshops and psycho-educational groups.
About you:
You will need to be highly motivated and resilient to cope with the demands of working in this large, high volume service. Successful candidates will also need strong communication skills, professional telephone manner and excellent IT and organisational skills.
Applicants must hold a Postgraduate or Degree Certificate in Psychological Therapies, otherwise they cannot be considered for this role.
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.
In Return 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 encourage applications from all communities we serve and actively welcome individuals who have lived or shared experience of mental health to apply for roles at Solent Mind. Appointments are based on merit.
Please note that we may close vacancies before the advertised closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Therefore, we recommend submitting 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.
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