Job Title: Carers in Mind Support Worker
Salary: £ 22,000 (Pro-Rata)
Location: Richmond Royal Hospital, Richmond Community Healthcare Hamlet,
Kew Foot Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 2TE.
Responsible to: Carers in Mind Project Manager
Responsible for: Providing and delivering an array of support services for families and friends who are caring for someone with a mental health problem. The Carers in Mind Support Worker will be responsible for delivering telephone advice, one to one support sessions, carers support planning, coordinating complementary therapy sessions to creating respite breaks as part of the aims and objectives of the wider Carers in Mind Project.
Length of Contract & Weekly Hours: 18 Hours Per Week till the 31st of March 2012
Richmond Borough Mind has been supporting and providing services for Mental Health Carers for over 12 years. The Carers in Mind Project initially started as a single carer led support group, which was then awarded funding for a part-time support work from the local Authority Carer’s Grant. During the last 18 months the project has grown significantly and during 2009/10 it provided nearly 600 breaks to 150 Mental Health Carers in the borough, and increased funding to incorporate a more specified Support Worker role to join its team.
The Carers in Mind Support Worker will be responsible for providing and delivering an array of support services for families and friends who are caring for someone with a mental health problem. Support interventions you would be responsible for would include telephone advice, one to one support sessions, carers support planning, coordinating complementary therapy sessions to creating respite breaks as part of the aims and objectives of the wider Carers in Mind Project.
As well as having an empathy with the core values of Mind, the successful applicant will be an exceptional listener who is able to provide timely and effective support to the client group of the project. The post holder will also possess efficient and effective coordinating skills capable of managing multiple work streams at any given time. The post holder will need to be an excellent communicator, and be comfortable with engaging and working with people from a multitude of ackgrounds especially those who are currently caring for someone with mental health distress.
RB Mind encourages applications by people from all backgrounds < script src="ignition/js/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/langs/en.js" type="text/javascript"> including those with a history of mental distress. A Criminal Records Bureau disclosure will be requested when the post is offered, but a criminal record is not necessarily a bar to obtaining this position.
Please complete the application form and monitoring form (both available below to download) and return them to ‘Richmond Borough Mind Recruitment’ at the above address. You can email your forms to recruitment@rbmind.org, however a hard copy of your application, including your signature, must also be sent in the post. Please note that CVs will not be considered.
In section nine of the application form, please ensure that you clearly state how you meet the criteria as laid out in the attached person specification, addressing each of the criteria in the order in which they appear.
Closing date for return of applications is 5.00pm on 10th June 2010, with
interviews scheduled to take place on 21st June 2010.
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