The Mental Health Foundation is recruiting for a Project Officer to support our exciting Art of Family Life project.

This exciting Project Officer role will coordinate the delivery of the ‘Art of Family Life’ project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This role will take an innovative approach to bringing together heritage learning to positively impact on the wellbeing of people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds living in Scotland. Key tasks of the role will include recruiting volunteers and sessional workers to support an oral history collection programme. This will be followed by a creative process to explore how the heritage of family life among families from refugee backgrounds can be curated and shared publicly.

What does the role involve?

• Promoting the programme to a wide range of audiences including with refugee led community organisations
• Coordinating with project partners and supporters including Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Common Ground at the Centre for Contemporary Arts and Glasgow Life and organising project events
• Recruiting and supporting sessional workers volunteers to promote and engage project activities
• Collect project impact data and support reporting to funder(s) on progress and finances

Requirements

What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?

• Good knowledge and understanding of volunteering
• Experience of working within the heritage/cultural/community sector
• Experience of developing and delivering events and activities
• Experience of developing partnerships and maintaining relationships with external organisations

Safeguarding is Everyone’s business – Mental Health Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all its beneficiaries, those who surround them, its staff, volunteers, and anyone else who comes into contact with its services and expects all trustees, staff, and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures (proof of eligibility to work in the UK, proof of residency and satisfactory employment screening, including a Disclosure check and two most recent references) along with 3-year renewals of Disclosure checks. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

The Support Worker will provide a combination of personal care, care at home and housing support to people with dementia in their own homes. The post holder will be part of a dedicated team that will ensure that the highest quality of service is provided.

The Support Worker will work 2 or 3 shifts per week with the flexibility to increase hours to meet the demands of the service. The Support Worker will work day shift, backshift, weekends and nightshift.

We are looking for a unique person who can support people with dementia, living within their own home in a Supported Living Service, personalised to the tenants needs.

Our support workers are our most important people as they provide front line support.

Our support workers help tenants to maintain skills and independence by providing support and care with all aspects of daily living

Successful applicants will have a positive approach to dementia. You will also have good communication skills and a caring attitude. A willingness to learn and participate in training is essential. Relevant qualifications and/or experience of working with people with dementia is essential.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in an innovative established service working with Primary Care Mental Health nurses and G.P. practices across Lanarkshire.

Our client is looking to recruit Mental Health & Wellbeing Workers to deliver person centred individual support to people in contact with Primary Care Mental Health Nurses or G.P. practice teams who may be experiencing stressful social circumstances that are having a negative impact on their mental health and wellbeing.

You will support people to help them identify and achieve personal outcomes and priorities that they would like to address and link them to local and national resources and services as required.

Duties Include:

• To develop an initial rapport with people using structured conversations to enable and empower them to identify their priorities and goals
• Following initial discussion identify a range of options that could assist the person to improve their mental health and wellbeing
• Prepare and facilitate follow up appointments to support people to take an active role in the management of their mental health and wellbeing
• Following first meeting agree with people initial actions to be taken and follow these through in line with agreement throughout duration of support
• To assist people to be more aware of paper based and online self-management tools
• Active delivery of individual and group based psychoeducational courses, including Living Life to the Full interventions
• To assist people to be more aware of and encourage them to use community-based resources and pursue their interests and aspirations
• To signpost and/or directly assist people to obtain advice and information on issues of concern/interest to them
• To signpost and/or directly assist people to access services provided by relevant statutory or community based organisations.
• Participate in local community activities that promote positive mental health awareness and assist to challenge stigma and discrimination
• To maintain positive working relationship with other team members, including primary care mental health nurses, psychologists, G.P’S admin staff and relevant others.
• To work flexibly to meet the needs of people’s required support, including evening and weekend work when necessary.
• To complete standard paperwork/online forms following initial contact and follow up appointments
• At end of each shift ensure all relevant paperwork and online communications are completed, as well as ensuring confidential materials are securely stored
• To keep accurate and up-to-date written records of work in keeping with policies and procedures
• To gather record and collate data, including case studies/patient stories in a prescribed format for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Previous experience of working with people in demanding situations would be desirable
• An understanding of mental health issues
• Good communication skills
• Builds rapport easily
• Able to work independently in a proactive manner
• Able to sustain contact with individuals to encourage and motivate them
• Confident in working closely with clinical staff, G.P.’s, practice staff and community agencies.
• Able to maintain accurate records
• Basic IT skills, working knowledge of office 365 desirable
• You must have a full driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes

We encourage applications from people who have personal experience of mental health difficulties

Three Sixty is an independent mental health charity based in Ayr supporting people across South Ayrshire. We work to promote mental wellbeing, reduce social isolation, raise awareness of and challenge the stigma and barriers associated with mental health.

To achieve this we provide information, advice and activity based support for people aged 16+, including their families and carers. We engage with communities through our outreach service to develop services that reflect what people need and want.

This is an exciting time to join Three Sixty as we begin work on our ambitious strategy to develop our service, increase our profile, impact and reach so that people feel connected and can develop the tools they need to support their mental wellbeing.

We are looking to recruit x4 Outreach Workers (Fixed Term for 3 years) to support the ongoing development of our outreach service.

Travel throughout South Ayrshire and further will be required.

See Job Description for full details.