Islington Mind is an established mental health charity with over 40 years’ experience of providing community services to people who have mental health problems and people who are recovering from mental health problems.
Employment Opportunities
Mother-to-Mother Project Support Worker
Contract: Fixed-term ending 31 July 2025
Hours of work: 1 day per week on Mondays
Annual Leave: 26 working days per year (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays (pro rata)
Salary: £6018.60 for 1 day per week (£30,093 FTE)
About the role
The Mother2Mother (M2M) project is an open-access, open-ended weekly support provision for women who are carers to their child, who experiences mental health problems. The child can be of any age. The support work will be part of a collaborative and dynamic Women-Only team that is eager to significantly impact on the wellbeing of women carers and the challenges they face.
The project worker’s role involves helping to facilitate the running of a 1-day a week vibrant Women-Carers Space, supporting and ensuring the safety of its therapeutic drop-in, supporting service users in one to one and group settings, helping with the cooking of a daily lunch, convening and facilitating users’ meetings, helping with the monitoring and evaluation of the M2M project and with co-production of new activities, projects and events.
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If you are interested, please complete the application form and monitoring form and return to Philip Challinor at philip.challinor@islingtonmind.org.uk before 5:00pm on Friday 06 December 2024.
We reserve the right to close the application process early. Please submit your application as soon as possible.
Supported Self-Help Practitioner
Contract: Fixed-term to 31 March 2025
Hours of work: 18.5 per week
Annual Leave: 26 working days per year (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays (pro rata)
Salary: Actual Salary £15,046.50 (£30,093 FTE)
About the role
Supported Self Help is an early intervention service co-produced between National Mind and local Minds and informed by lived experience.
Specific target groups are young people, people experiencing poverty and people from racialised communities.
In this role, you will be based within Islington Mind to deliver the supported self-help service.
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If you are interested, please complete the application form and monitoring form and return to Philip Challinor at philip.challinor@islingtonmind.org.uk before 5:00pm on Monday 02 December 2024.
We reserve the right to close the application process early. Please submit your application as soon as possible.
One-to-one Support Worker
Contract: Permanent
Immediate start preferred
Hours of work: 20 per week
Annual Leave: 26 days per year pro rata (15.6 days for 20 hours + 2.5 bank holidays entitlement)
Salary: £17,195-£18,378 for 20 hours per week (£30,093-£32,163 FTE)
About the role
To deliver support to people with complex mental health needs progress and maintain independent living in a community of their choice. You will provide short term (up to 3 months) one-to-one support for a range of practical and emotional/mental health issues.
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If you are interested, please complete the application form and monitoring form and return to Philip Challinor at philip.challinor@islingtonmind.org.uk before 5:00pm on Monday 02 December 2024.
We reserve the right to close the application process early. Please submit your application as soon as possible.
Enablement Service Housing Support Worker
Contract: Fixed-term (1 year)
Hours of work: 1 day per week (day TBC)
Annual leave: 26 working days per year (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays (pro rata)
Salary: £6018.60 for 1 day per week (£30,093 FTE)
About the role
Utilising the Enablement Service model to support people with severe and enduring mental health problems with managing housing issues, including tackling issues that can increase the risk of homelessness (including debt and gambling), referring/signposting to specialist support, help with settling into a home, assist with thriving within the home.
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If you are interested, please complete the application form and monitoring form and return to Philip Challinor at philip.challinor@islingtonmind.org.uk before 5:00pm on Monday 02 December 2024.
We reserve the right to close the application process early. Please submit your application as soon as possible.
