Salary: £22,829 to £24,584 Pro Rata Per Annum
Hours: 1 x 37 Hours Per Week, 1 x 33.5 Hours Per Week
Closing date: Mon 18 Jan 2021 (Before 9.00am)

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Solent Mind is the leading ­mental health charity across Hampshire providing a range of high quality services to improve people’s mental wellbeing and to promote choice and rights to everyone who needs our support. Our services operate in various locations throughout the Hampshire area.

As part of the national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT), Solent Mind, in partnership with Southern Health Foundation NHS Trust are delivering an exciting service called italk. This large IAPT service works across Hampshire.

We are a lively and hardworking team looking for an experienced, committed and enthusiastic person to join us in delivering quality employment advice.

You will provide employment advice, information and practical support to help people who are currently employed to retain their employment. For example individuals going through the absence management process, grievance/disciplinary procedure where their employment issue is affecting their work or work is impacting on their mental health.

The role will involve working with a caseload of clients providing advice and support. This will be mainly over the telephone but also occasional visits (when practical) to client’s workplace to support in formal meetings. This may also be undertaken via online platforms.

This would suit some-one who is CIPD qualified or equivalent, but if you have a good knowledge and sound understanding of employment issues and how this could impact on an individual’s mental health; excellent IT skills, communication skills, both written and verbal this could be the role for you.

In return we can offer a vibrant and friendly working environment with excellent benefits, including 25 days holidays which increases per completed year of service to 30 days, also an opportunity to buy extra day’s holiday after a qualifying period (pro-rata for part-time staff), learning & development opportunities, plus a contributory pension scheme.

For more details on this role please email:

Jo Moxham (Senior Employment Advisor) jmoxham@solentmind.org.uk

For more information on the italk service visit www.italk.org.uk

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A relevant DBS check may be required for this role.

How to apply

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Complete and return to: recruitment@solentmind.org.uk

If you have any difficulties in downloading an application form, please contact Recruitment on:

Phone: 023 8202 7839
Email: recruitment@solentmind.org.uk

Salary: £19,201 to £20,680 Pro Rata Per Annum
Hours: 18.5 Hours Per Week (Wednesday To Friday)
Closing date: Mon 01 Feb 2021 (Before 9.00am)

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Solent Mind is the leading ­mental health charity across Hampshire providing a range of high quality services to improve people’s mental wellbeing and to promote choice and rights to everyone who needs our support. Our services operate in various locations throughout the Hampshire area.

Solent Mind is a partner in the new Primary Level Mental Health Service comprising Coastal Medical Partnership Ltd (formerly Arnewood, Barton & Webb-Peploe and New Milton Health Centre surgeries).

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. We are now recruiting for this post, which will have a key role within the new service.

In this role 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 level mental health service and associated organisations.

For more information on this role please email:

Diane Hannam (Wellbeing Manager) dhannam@solentmind.org.uk

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A relevant DBS check may be required for this role.

How to apply

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Complete and return to: recruitment@solentmind.org.uk

If you have any difficulties in downloading an application form, please contact Recruitment on:

Phone: 023 8202 7839
Email: recruitment@solentmind.org.uk

Salary: £20,680 Per Annum (rising to £22,829 - £24,584 when qualified)
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week
Closing date: Sun 31 Jan 2021 (By Midnight)

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Solent Mind is the leading ­mental health charity across Hampshire providing a range of high quality services to improve people’s mental wellbeing and to promote choice and rights to everyone who needs our support. Our services operate in various locations throughout the Hampshire area.

italk is the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service provided in partnership between Solent Mind and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for highly motivated and resilient individuals with a relevant qualification or mental health experience and a desire to work in one of the largest Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services in the country. You will work with patients with mild to moderate depression and anxiety. We need people with energy and enthusiasm, who are flexible in their approach and can work well as part of a large, busy team in a high-volume service and demanding environment, whilst studying for their PWP qualifications.

We are offering one-year traineeships to Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, starting in March/April 2021. PWP Trainees will work within the italk service for Solent Mind providing Step 2 interventions in the form of 1 – 1 telephone appointments, face to face, group and online support for people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. You will receive employment and a full salary, as well as one year of high quality evidence-based training at the University of Reading.

• You will need recent experience of working with people with mental health problems.
• You may be a graduate (or equivalent) level in a relevant profession, or have acquired good practical experience of mental health work with evidence of recent relevant study (those without the required level of qualification would need to demonstrate that they could fulfil the academic component of the role prior to being offered a post).

In addition to the requirements in the Person Specification, candidates will have to satisfy the University that they are capable of completing the academic component of the training, alongside working within the service.

You will be based in one of 3 hubs across Hampshire: West (Eastleigh); East (Gosport); North (Basingstoke).

At italk we take pride our practitioners and do our best to look after their wellbeing at all times. Each staff member is encouraged to complete a wellness action plan as they join the team, and is invited to attend a fortnightly wellbeing group with their colleagues to do activities together and encourage connectedness. All staff have access to the Solent Mind online wellbeing platform and free 24/7 support via our Employee Assistance Programme as well as regular supervision with a senior practitioner. We believe that we need to look after ourselves in order to best support our patients and welcome new team members with the same philosophy.

Interviews will be split into two parts. The first part will take place week commencing 22 February 2021 and successful candidates will be invited to a second stage of interviewing in week commencing 01 March 2021. The post would start in line with the University starting date and planned induction which is likely to be early April 2021 - you would need to be able to start work on these dates.

For more details on this role, email either:-

Sarah Richardson (Clinical Manager) at srichardson@solentmind.org.uk or Heather Simons (Clinical Manager) at hsimons@solentmind.org.uk.

For more information on the italk service please see their website: www.italk.org.uk.

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Applications are limited to 90. Once this limit is reached applications will automatically be closed.

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