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Mental Health Project Worker
| Posting date: | 07 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,871 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 February 2025 |
| Location: | M15 6JS |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Caritas Diocese of Salford |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We are looking to recruit a Mental Health Project Worker who will be based at our Cornerstone Day Centre, a community centre for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The project worker will actively promote and support the aims and objectives of the Cornerstone Health Hub and the Cornerstone Homeless Mental Health Project.
The Mental Health Project Worker will help to develop the service as a psychologically and trauma informed service, focusing on achieving mental health outcomes establishing positive, effective links and referral pathways with mental health services. You will work in the drop-in identifying people in need of mental health interventions, recognising when mental health is deteriorating, or urgent treatment is needed and will take appropriate action.
You will have a strength-based approach and experience of working in a community mental health setting with people who have complex needs and will contribute positively to the multi-disciplinary team.
Additionally, you must be a mental health nurse or have an equivalent professional mental health qualification along with excellent communication skills, good IT and administration skills with knowledge of effective mental health interventions and referral pathways.
30 Hours per Week. The hours of the role are flexible but to be worked with the core working hours, 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday.
If this sounds like the next step you are looking for and you would like to work in a service passionate about supporting people to improve their mental health, then we would love to hear from you!
The Mental Health Project Worker will help to develop the service as a psychologically and trauma informed service, focusing on achieving mental health outcomes establishing positive, effective links and referral pathways with mental health services. You will work in the drop-in identifying people in need of mental health interventions, recognising when mental health is deteriorating, or urgent treatment is needed and will take appropriate action.
You will have a strength-based approach and experience of working in a community mental health setting with people who have complex needs and will contribute positively to the multi-disciplinary team.
Additionally, you must be a mental health nurse or have an equivalent professional mental health qualification along with excellent communication skills, good IT and administration skills with knowledge of effective mental health interventions and referral pathways.
30 Hours per Week. The hours of the role are flexible but to be worked with the core working hours, 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday.
If this sounds like the next step you are looking for and you would like to work in a service passionate about supporting people to improve their mental health, then we would love to hear from you!
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