Dbi Coordinator

**Distress Brief Intervention Coordinator**

Location: Inverness

**Salary**: £24,500
Contract: Temp - May 2025

Change Mental Health is a leading national mental health charity providing unique support to people with severe and enduring mental ill health. With over 50 years’ experience across Scotland, we believe people affected by poor mental health and illness deserve the highest quality of support in the community and that every person has the right to be valued and to share in the opportunities, challenges, and joys of everyday life.

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual to join our Distress Brief Intervention team on a 28-hour Role. Applicant must have a good understanding of compassionate, person-centred, recovery-focused support work.

This position will be Hybrid based working from home and within the Inverness office, within in a fast-paced environment where your experience of being able to multi-task will be called on daily with a supportive collaborative working environment with DBI Teams.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- I work closely with the DBI National Project Manager, DBI Project Manager and Service Team Leaders to achieve strategic and operational outcomes.
- I enable individuals to develop Distress Management Plans to help prevent future episodes of crisis.
- I support individuals to explore the triggers of their distress and to identify coping mechanisms to develop long term resilience across a spectrum of issues - not just mental health.
- I establish supportive relationships, encouraging individual responsibility and decision-making to maximise choice, control, and self-management.
- I ensure that people I support are connected to other Change Mental Health services and to other agencies in their area as appropriate.
- My focus is ensuring faithful adherence to the DBI model whilst working within Change Mental Health values.
- I ensure that careful and ongoing review systems are in place and maintained.
- I build positive working relationships with local partners to better support our service users and to promote the work of Change Mental Health
- I collate information and prepare agency reports for line management as required.
- I contribute to Research and Development at a local level in support of National objectives to promote service improvements.

**Essential Criteria**:

- I work well in a team setting but can also work autonomously.
- I have a sound theory base of social care interventions including risk assessment.
- My value base is consistent with the aims and objectives of Change Mental Health
- I am competent in planning and reviewing personal plans and taking appropriate action if needed.
- My I.T skills are of a good standard.
- I am keen to develop my knowledge and skills and attend training as required.

**General Duties**
- Act in accordance with Data Protection legislation. Ensure all records, personal, staff and client data are managed in line with Data Management and Information Governance policies.
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- As with all employees, workers, and volunteers; to encourage people to join Change Mental Health as a member, donor, or activist.
- To act in accordance with the charity’s Health & Safety and Safeguarding policies and to notify your line manager promptly if there are any concerns.
- To participate in regular supervision and appraisal and undertake any relevant training as appropriate to the role.
- To work in accordance with the charity’s national policies and local operating procedures and those of external regulators or professional bodies

This job profile and list of duties is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements and projects commensurate with the general profile and grade of the post.

**Job Type**: Temporary contract
Contract length: 24 months

Pay: Up to £24,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 05/07/2024