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Safespace Team Leader
28 hours per week (4 x 7-hour shifts). Daytime and evening shifts on rota; regular evening and weekend shifts will be required. £16 per hour + 5% pension; £23,296 actual salary (£31,200 pro rata). Post funded to September 2027. Deadline for completed applications: 9.00am on Monday 30th June 2025 We are looking for a Team Leader to join our Safespace team. The Team Leader will support the delivery of the Safespace service, working alongside the Safespace Service Manager to support the team of Project Workers and Relief Workers. The Team Leader role is a newly created role, designed to meet the capacity requirements as the service has now moved to open 7 days and evenings a week. Safespace is our crisis support service, providing ‘in the moment’ emotional support for anyone in Calderdale aged 16+. Safespace runs every day of the week to try to ensure that people can get support when they need it: there are no referral criteria and no waiting lists. The new Safespace Team Leader will provide on-shift support for Project Workers, working 4 shifts per week on a rota basis; this will include evening and weekend shifts. If you have the skill and temperament for what can be a demanding and rewarding role, you could be joining the Safespace team to support Healthy Minds’ vision for everyone in Calderdale to have better mental health. Please visit the Jobs page for full details
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Mental health support in Calderdale is more essential than ever, with growing numbers of people facing challenges like depression, anxiety, and emotional distress. At Healthy Minds, we’re proud to be a lifeline for those in need, offering a range of services that empower individuals to feel understood, connected, and supported on their path to recovery.
Our brand new impact report highlights the work we’ve done over the past year (2023-2024), showcasing how services like Safespace,Like Minds, and Link have helped offer vital support to those in need. This year brought challenges, from short-term funding to evolving contracts, but the dedication of our supporters, staff and volunteers has enabled us to adapt and grow. With your continued help, we’re building a future where mental health support is accessible to everyone in Calderdale who needs it. Explore the full report below: The Healthy Minds Board of trustees met on Wednesday evening, 25th September 2024, with five trustees present, and the Chief Officer, Business Sustainability Manager and Finance Assistant (notes), also in attendance.
The board agreed a revised timetable for the (re)launch of our Membership scheme and arrangements. We intend confirming the date of the launch at the forthcoming Healthy Minds AGM. We expect the launch date to be early in the new year. This will allow time to develop materials for membership applications, complete website preparations, agree data management and ensure all legal requirements are satisfied. Trustees will continue to give oversight to arrangements and in particular to legal requirements. The board received a progress update on impact reporting. We look forward to efficient reporting on impact in a number of ways, to different audiences, including: the public, service users, potential donors, volunteers and staff; funders, commissioners and our auditor; the board. The board will receive a further update at our next meeting in December. The Chief Officer gave a presentation on the 2024-26 business plan. The presentation made clear the relationship between strategy, business plan, service operational plans and individual work plans. The board discussed various points of detail in relation to the business plan: how the business plan has been developed, the review of processes and content by the Development Sub Committee and the relationship of the business plan to risk management. The board approved the Business Plan. The board plans to hold Healthy Minds’ AGM on 27th November 2024, to follow on from the Forum planned for that day. The board received 2024-25 Quarter 1 accounts. New dates will be set up for the Finance Sub Committee, with aim of meeting four times a year, on the second Tuesday of the second month in each quarter. This will align our Finance Sub Committee meetings to the finalisation of quarterly accounts, rather than to board meeting dates. The board also received the Chief Officer’s report, considered its own development requirements and ended its meeting by reviewing its own governance arrangements. Paul Hunt Chair of Trustees, 3rd December 2024
During the meeting, our Chief Officer Jonny Richardson-Glenn will present the annual report, a fantastic opportunity to get the overall picture of our charity over the last financial year, and what our strategy is for the coming years ahead.
We welcome all who are part of our community at Healthy Minds to join us. The venue & access: Please access the building via the side entrance on Blackledge - the top entrance to the Square Chapel will not be open.via the side entrance on Blackledge - the top entrance to the Square Chapel will not be open. There is step free access and an accessible toilet. The venue is a short walk from Halifax train station, near local central bus stops and there are car parks nearby on Thomas Street, New Road and Union Street. What a splashing time was had by all!
The fun never stopped on Sunday 9th October when all three Calderdale pools opened their doors to swimmers of all ages and abilities, keen to swim and fundraise for Healthy Minds. Our fabulous swimmers chose their pool, chose their distance and pledged their fundraising target. On the day, we couldn’t have been prouder, everyone dived right in and heroically faced their challenge.
The Healthy Minds Board of trustees met on Tuesday morning, 23rd July 2024, with seven trustees present, and Chief Officer, one Operations Manager and Business Sustainability Manager and Finance Assistant (notes), also in attendance. We were delighted to welcome Agnieszka Stobart, and Healthy Minds volunteer, Claire Gibson, who have both just been appointed as new trustees. This brings our board up to ten trustees.
The board received the Chief Officer’s report, including a detailed update on each service. The board approved the proposed redundancy process for the Community Health and Wellbeing project and pilot. The board did so with a heavy heart since, in its lengthy pilot phase, this project has clearly come to contribute much to Calderdale, with recognition across Calderdale and beyond. The board would have much preferred the service to be established as a long-term project but understands that all has been done in order to make this possible. We are very sorry to see the service come to an end, and are proud of what has been achieved, individually, by the team and by Healthy Minds. We wish all staff involved well for the future, whether in new roles within Healthy Minds or elsewhere. The board received an update on the 2024-25 business plan. The business plan is a key document for us as an organisation, in translating our longer term strategy into priorities for this year. The business plan links then through to service operational plans. The board is assured that there will be a repeat of last year’s successful communication of plans through staff briefings later in the summer. It is important that not only does our business plan (and operational plans) deliver our strategy in terms of what we want to do, but also that it addresses the significant risks that we currently face. The board, through its Development Subcommittee, and in discussion with the Chief Officer and other staff, has asked that we review our risks in order to reconfirm the most significant risks, or identify any new or changed risks. The board held a wider discussion about how we identify, understand, describe and respond to our risks, so that there are meaningful links between the environment in which we operate, our strategy, our business and operational plans. We will hold a workshop on this, and consider further at a later board meeting. The board received an update on the development of our membership plans. We hope that our proposed membership model can be launched at our AGM, towards the end of 2024. The board also reconfirmed Jen Fagan as board safeguarding lead, received an update on policies, and received reports on work undertaken by recent Finance (service funding, latest accounts) and Development Subcommittees (business plan, risk). The board very much appreciates the wide-ranging and effective services delivered by staff and volunteers across Healthy Minds, in keeping with our values and commitment to co-production. Paul Hunt Chair of Trustees, 25th September 2024 Thank you to all who joined us on World Suicide Prevention Day at Dean Clough to create a moving artwork: 257 handmade lanterns, each representing someone who died by suicide in the latest year of registered deaths (2023). We lit each of these lanterns in the knowledge that even a single death is already one too many.
The Healthy Minds Board of trustees met on Wednesday evening, 21st February 2024, with eight trustees present, and Chief Officer, two Operations Managers and Business Sustainability Manager (notes), also in attendance. The board considered several options for the 2024-25 pay award. Each option proposed was considered to be in line with the pay principles approved at the board’s meeting of 21st February 2024: affordability; staff recruitment, retention and reward; acknowledgement of inflation/cost of living increases; same pay for working at similar level; broader valuing of staff and supporting wellbeing; benchmarking. The option agreed proposed retains the same number of pay rates at present; increases the amount paid to all staff; rounds up hourly rates and annual FTE salaries. The pay award at individual pay band level has been communicated to all staff over the next few days. The board considered the proposed new Wellbeing Policy. Whilst the board does not routinely review operational policies, this Policy was regarded as of particular importance, following the staff survey of 12 months ago, and the detailed consultation undertaken. The board thanks staff for their active engagement in the survey and following consultation, and the Chief Officer and others who have clearly sought to listen to any concerns expressed. The board understands that teams have responded positively to new proposed Policy. The board believes that the proposed Policy clearly addresses issues and concerns raised through the survey and following consultation, and to be a comprehensive, detailed and engaged response that values staff and supports wellbeing. The board appreciates that the Policy will be communicated to existing and new staff, through induction and regular discussion at team meetings, creating opportunities to reflect on and strengthen our culture, in line with our recently agreed vision, mission and values. The Policy was approved by the board, with thanks to all staff. The survey will be repeated in 2025, having given time for the new Policy to be implemented. The board received the annual Safeguarding Report. The services provided by Healthy Minds inevitably give rise to safeguarding issues from time to time. Safeguarding is a standing item of each board meeting, in which the board receives assurance each meeting that all known issues are being managed, and is made aware of any particular issues that need board consideration for any reason. Specific issues requiring board consideration have been raised on occasion, as brought by the Operational Manager with Safeguarding responsibility, or any other member of the senior team. The board thanks staff for a consistent, skilled, well-informed and committed approach to safeguarding within and across the services we provide. The board is assured that staff are engaging with other organisations where appropriate, and recognises that is not always easy. The board received assurance following an update to a specific case brought to the February board, in which we had concerns regarding statutory engagement. The board also received a detailed report from the Chief Officer, covering recruitment, service developments, funding. The board was particularly pleased to note that the re-commissioning of Link is under the new Provider Selection Regime (PSR) regime and hopes that this will provide opportunities for the re-commissioning of other services in the future. The board approved the budget for 2024-25, previously considered in draft. The budget approved allows for the approved pay award. The Board’s Essential Trustee self-assessment and following actions was reviewed, as were reports from the Development Sub Committee and Finance Sub Committee. The board thanks the Volunteer Coordinator for invitations to the volunteers’ party on 6th June 2024. The board is proud and thankful for the work of all staff and volunteers in the services provided to local people, across Calderdale. Paul Hunt Chair of Trustees, 23rd July 2024 |
