Distress Brief Intervention Coordinator

**Location**: Dumfries & Galloway

**Salary**: £24,500 pro rata

**Salary** **Band**: 1.3

**Hours**: Part Time, 21 hour per week

**Contract**: Permanent

**Directorate**: National Services

**Reports To**: DBI Project Manager

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.

Our person-centred approach puts the people we work with at the heart of what we do ensuring they have greater opportunity, can build confidence and social skills, and become more integrated into their communities. By building connections and support around individual needs, our team of nearly 200 staff and 800 members value the lived experience which informs the services we deliver. We look beyond illness by taking a holistic approach that ensures no one has to face mental ill health alone.

**About the Distress Brief Intervention (DBI)) Project**:
Change Mental Health is the lead partner in Dumfries & Galloway for the Scottish Government’s Distress Brief Intervention project (DBI). The DBI is a Scotland-wide project, testing a ground-breaking approach to addressing the emotional and psychological pain experienced by people in distress.

Working in partnership with frontline services, including Police, Ambulance service, Primary Care and mental health teams, the project provides rapid referral to focussed, short-term support, with the option of onward referral to longer-term support if required. As a DBI Coordinator, you will join this major, high profile Scottish Government project in a key role.

For further information about DBI and our involvement in the project, head to our website and visit DBI.scot.

**About the Role**:
We are seeking to appoint 1 highly motivated individual to join our DBI team. DBI Coordinators provide support, advice and personal support planning for people referred from front-line services, carrying out short-term work with people in distress to review the reasons for their distress, develop immediate coping strategies and link them into a range of appropriate community services and facilities.

The purpose of this role is to work with people in distress who are referred by front line services (including Police Scotland, Scottish Ambulance Service, NHS24 and Primary Care) to the Level 2 Distress Brief Intervention team. The work includes: reviewing the reasons for distress, working with individuals to develop their Distress Brief Intervention Management Plan and using supported referral to link individuals into a range of appropriate community services and facilities as appropriate.

Training in Level 2 Distress Brief Intervention, specific to the post, will be provided.

The post holder will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or update their membership record for regulated work with protected adults. (The costs are met by the employer)

This post is part time, working 21 hours per week, office hours of 9am - 5pm with some weekend working on a rota basis (approx. every 8wks)

**Essential Criteria**:

- Educated to SVQ 3 level or have experience working in mental health
- Works well in a team setting but can also work autonomously
- Have a sound theory base of social care interventions including risk assessments
- Have a value base that is consistent with the aims and objectives of Change Mental Health
- Competency in planning and reviewing personal plans and taking appropriate action if needed
- Good standard of I.T skills
- Keen to develop your knowledge and skills and attend training as required

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.

**Benefits**:

- 24/7 access to an award-winning Employee Assistance Programme providing free legal, financial, and medical advice as well as support with life’s challenges.
- A 35-hour working week, enhanced sick pay & season ticket loan.
- A great work life balance with flexible and blended working environment.
- Access to purchase a Blue Light Discount Card
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements.
- Generous 37 days’ holiday.
- Paid Mental Wellbeing days.
- Professional development including funded opportunities.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £14,700.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 18/10/2024