Job description
Bromley by Bow are looking for a Community Connector (Mental Health) to work across Networks 5 and 6 in Tower Hamlets. The Community Connector will be embedded in the Bromley by Bow Integrated Social Prescribing service and part of a wider team of voluntary sector, primary care and secondary care staff in the Community Mental Health Team.
The Community Connector will support people with serious mental illness (SMI) including symptoms of anxiety or depression, or a diagnosis of schizophrenia to achieve better mental health and wellbeing, increasing independence and reducing reliance on services.
The role includes the following duties however these may change as the post evolves:
- Offer focused and person-centred support to individuals and groups with lived experience of mental health with the aim to building knowledge, skills, confidence and resilience in people, as well as encouraging people to access local activities and services.
- Manage a caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and urgent support required by individuals.
- Take a holistic approach, based on the person’s priorities and the wider determinants of health that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities
- Support the involvement of people with lived experience of mental health in the design, delivery and monitoring of services.
- Work within a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) across the voluntary sector, primary care, and secondary care and attend referral meetings with various healthcare professionals and community services.
- Have a detailed understanding of local services and how they can be accessed to facilitate appropriate signposting and referrals
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with Tower Hamlets community-based services and statutory providers to ensure effective and smooth onward referrals
- Experience of coaching and motivational interviewing Community Connector
- Contribute to the ongoing development and maintenance of the service directory in Network 5 and 6 Tower Hamlets.
- Explore ways to innovate to get the best out of the role and how to be creative and utilise all the current provision and possible new opportunities that could strengthen the offer to people with mental health issues within the local community.
- Maintain systems to keep accurate records relating to the delivery and outcomes of the service including processing referrals, monitoring database and updating case notes as required by both ELFT and the Bromley by Bow Social Prescribing service and in line with the Centre’s Outcome Framework and contract requirements
- Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.
- Ensure all of the above is done in line with our anti-racist and inclusion strategy
Salary: £30,562
Hours: 35 hours
Deadline: Sunday 5 June 2022