Mental Health Link Worker / Navigator

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to offer a Mental Health Navigator / Link Worker post within Community Mental Health (CMHT).

• Will you enjoy working within a team of dedicated, friendly people who believe in helping people by addressing wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity?
• Are you passionate about providing support to people who have a serious mental illness (SMI) to enable them to connect with their communities, addressing barriers such as social isolation?
• Can you effectively engage with a diverse range of VCSE organisations, NHS Teams including Primary Care?
• Can you work with individuals to co-produce goals based on the persons priorities, interests, values and motivations
• If that sounds like you – then we want to hear from you!

You will be based at Weavers Croft, alongside the clinical lead. This is a base for mental health community teams.  The post would mainly involve working in and around Gloucestershire with an expectation of some out of county visits.

You will work collaboratively with VCSE organisations, and primary care working with individuals who have a SMI or at serious risk of developing one.  You will be a key role in the Locality Community Partnership meeting held in each locality, bringing together key partners to plan and deliver collaborative care for people with mental health complexities.

Main duties of the job

• Proactively spending time with specified VCSE organisations including attending meetings and forums, and attending activities which include clients of the VCSE services
• Build capability, confidence and resilience in the VCSE to identify and support individuals in emotional distress; and recognise and respond to suicide risk.
• Increase VCSE awareness of, and access to mental health services and available training to enable them to signpost/refer effectively.
• Support earlier identification (on the part of both the VCSE and Mental Health Services) of people in crisis by enabling concerns to be communicated quickly.
• Help Improve connectivity between mental health and third sector services.
• Support the personalisation agenda.
• Supporting GP practices to connect with GHC mental health services.
• Carrying a limited caseload only to support people referrals across services and broker access to services

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs.  Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.  So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.