Living Well Mental Health Wellbeing Coach

**Title**: Living Well Mental Wellbeing Coach

**Location**: This is a field based role covering geographical area of either Chesterfield or Northeast Derbyshire & Bolsover

**Hours**: Full time, 35hrs per week

**Contract**: Permanent

**Salary**: £18,090.60 - £19,860.93 per annum

**About our service**:
In February 2020, NHS England published a new Community Mental Health Framework (CMHF), which is a 3 year NHS programme aiming to improve care for people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI). In Derbyshire this new way to offer holistic health and wellbeing support is called ‘Living Well Derbyshire’.

Derbyshire Recovery & Peer Support Service provide recovery services to people in the community and supports them in long term recovery through peer activity. An extension of this is the living well Hubs which is in collaboration with the NHS Trust underpinning this is Peer support development and training. The service has an over service contract manager and managers located in areas across Derbyshire who support teams of coaches including those with lived experience

**How you will make a difference**:
We are looking for are a dynamic, knowledgeable person who will join a new team to prototype the new neighbourhood mental health Derbyshire Living Well model.

**As a Mental Wellbeing Coach you will**:
Manage a caseload of individuals with complex needs

Provide coaching support to individuals on a 1:1 or group basis giving information, guidance, advice and support

Support individuals to develop ‘My Story’- a way of telling their story, capturing their goals and co-design a journey of support

Provide emotional and practical support to individuals
- building confidence and skills and grow their ability to self-manage their mental wellbeing

Connect individuals to appropriate interventions e.g. housing advice, debt support, education etc.

Please refer to the job description attached on our direct website for more detailed information about the role.

For more information on Living Well Derbyshire, please visit Living Well Derbyshire : Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk)

What we are looking for

**We are looking for an individual who**:
Has experience working with individuals with multifaceted mental health needs and complexity
- including serious mental illness

Genuinely cares about making a difference and is motivated to improve mental health outcomes for people and their communities.

Has Health & social care qualification or willing to work towards

Has experience managing caseloads of individuals with complex disadvantage

Has a working knowledge and understanding of mental health and the ability to recognise the indicators of deteriorating mental health

Has ability to travel across High Peak and North Dales area

**You may also have**:
a good knowledge of the local Mental Health and Health and Social Care landscape

knowledge of community navigation and social prescribing models

Caring for our people.

We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:
**Wellbeing support**: our Wellbeing hub gives physical, emotional, and mental health support. We also have a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments.

**Taking time for you**: we work flexibly -you get to choose where you work, managing your own diary. We have generous annual leave, starting at 25 rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays, as well as your birthday off.

**Planning for the future**: We have a contributory pension scheme.

**Structured Induction**: Onboarding you into the Charity supporting your wellbeing along the way.

**£300 when you introduce a Friend**: receive up to £300 when you introduce a friend or family member

Who are we?

We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”