Current Vacancies

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Community Health & Wellbeing Workers (2 posts) 

Hours: full-time (37.5 hours per week).  2-year fixed term post
Pay: £11.15 per hour Salary £21748 annual plus 5% pension
​Deadline for applications: 9.00am on Wednesday 8th June 2022.

​We are seeking people with enthusiasm, strong values, and a passion for empowering others. Your excellent local knowledge of your community will be key to this job.  We are seeking one worker in each of the following areas: Elland and Upper Valley (Luddenden Foot/ Mytholmroyd /Hebden Bridge)

Community Health & Wellbeing Workers are vital new roles created as part of Calderdale’s ambition to change how mental health services work across the borough. Find out more about the NHS Community Mental Health Transformation Plan in this video. 

Ideal candidates will:

• Have excellent local knowledge about services in your area
• Be passionate about reducing isolation and barriers to accessing health and wellbeing services in your local community
• Enjoy being part of a team and making improvements in your local community
• Be able to build supportive and trusting relationships with people of all ages and backgrounds
• Have a person-centred approach to working with people to support them in accessing what they need

As part of a neighbourhood-based team, the CHW workers will be recruited from their local area and bring their knowledge and links within the community to the role.

To have a chat about the job and find out more, please contact
Lisa Dunne: lisa@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk 01422 345154 or
Amanda Mckenzie: Amanda.mckenzie6@nhs.net on 07557152291

Please read the  accompanying  documents carefully before applying or enquiring.   
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• Job Description & person specification
• ​Information about community mental health transformation

Your application will have to demonstrate how you meet all the essential requirements in the person specification in order to be shortlisted.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications must be submitted electronically.  Please follow these instructions carefully.
A  complete application consists of two documents:
1: Monitoring Form - this is kept separate from the rest of your application until shortlisting is completed.
2: Application Form.

Submit both completed documents by the closing date to jobs@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk
Using "CHW Worker" as the subject line. 

Please do not send CVs.

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​Safespace Relief Project Workers

Do you have experience of supporting people in mental distress?
Are you a compassionate and communicative individual committed to helping others?

Safespace, run by mental health charity Healthy Minds, offers out-of-hours emotional support for people in emotional distress.

We are looking for Relief Project Workers to support our current Safespace team and to provide a point of access for adults who are experiencing emotional distress.

​Relief Project Workers will support Safespace visitors to consider, agree and arrange appropriate support for people’s immediate and longer-term emotional health and wellbeing.

Safespace is an ‘out-of-hours’ service and is, therefore, open outside normal office hours. Relief Project Workers will be offered shifts to cover staff absences, as required and must be available to work evening shifts 5.30-11.30pm (including weekend work)

Rate of pay: £13.46 per hour/£80.76 per 6-hour shift

If you would like to chat to someone about this role, please get in touch with Kath: kath@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk to arrange a call. Or call us on 01422 345154

​Deadline to apply: Friday 13 May. 

Please read the  accompanying  documents carefully before applying or enquiring.   

​Job Description
Person specification

Your application will have to demonstrate how you meet all the essential requirements in the person specification in order to be shortlisted.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications must be submitted electronically.  Please follow these instructions carefully.
A  complete application consists of two documents:
1: Monitoring Form - this is kept separate from the rest of your application until shortlisting is completed.
2: Application Form.

Submit both completed documents by the closing date to jobs@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk
Using "Safespace Relief Worker" as the subject line. 

Please do not send CVs.

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Volunteer Opportunity: Board of Trustees

We would like to strengthen our board of trustees. We intend making up to four appointments, which will increase our number to twelve. We are seeking trustees able not only to contribute to board but to undertake commitments outside of full board meetings, such as sub-committee attendance. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of quantity of experience at board level, to support the board’s drive for quality, inclusive decision making, problem solving and creativity. We want to make our board more inclusive and representative of the Calderdale population; we reflect our population’s diversity in gender, sexual orientation, disability and age, but not ethnicity or religion, noting that 8% of Calderdale is of Pakistani and Muslim heritage. Our existing board has a good range of expertise including local knowledge, experience of mental health and wellbeing issues, finance, governance, commissioning, contracting, diversity and inclusion, human resources management and development, and mental health service delivery. We are keen to add depth to this expertise, and add breadth.
 
We believe that by becoming a trustee of Healthy Minds, you have the opportunity to help us continue to support the mental health and wellbeing of the people of Calderdale, and your experience, insights and expertise will help us to improve that support even more. We will work with you to provide induction, training and support, as you take up this exciting role. You will have the opportunity to build your experience and skills through your time as a trustee. We appreciate your time in looking through this application pack, and welcome, should you wish to do so, your application. We particularly welcome applications from those who will help the board reflect the diversity of Calderdale’s population and add to the board’s expertise.
 
Completed Trustee Application Form (section 4) and Declaration of Eligibility (section 5) should be sent, by 7th February 2022 to Paul Hunt, Chair of Trustees:
 
Email (preferred):  paul@healthymindscalderdale.co.uk
 
Post (alternative): FAO Paul Hunt, Chair of Trustees, Heathy Minds, 1 King Street, Halifax, HX1 1SR
 
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview. Interviews are scheduled for 22nd and 23rd February 2022 (online or face-to-face, to be confirmed and subject to Government guidelines).
 
- Paul Hunt
 Chair of Trustees, Healthy Minds

Find out about other volunteering opportunities here.  ​

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