Mental Health Support Coordinator

**Mental Health Support Coordinator-**
**Live Well Leeds**

Leeds Mind is the city’s leading mental health charity. We have faith and optimism in our clients and so the services we deliver are built around their needs. We support the people of Leeds to discover their own resources to ‘recover’ from periods of poor mental health, and to live life independently with their mental health condition.

Our values of Kindness, Hope, Respect, Empowerment, Support and Inclusion are pivotal to the work we do.

**Belonging at Leeds Mind**

Leeds Mind is committed to creating an inclusive environment and being an equal opportunities employer - We believe that inclusive practices should be part of everything we do. We are committed to ensuring that our colleagues, volunteers, and service users feel a sense of belonging at Leeds Mind that gives them the confidence to share their unique perspectives and experience.

To find out more about how we are developing this you can click here.

**Our Service**

Live Well Leeds provides flexible and practical support to people (aged 18+) within the Leeds Metropolitan District. This service is commissioned by Leeds City Council Adult Social Care and commenced in April 2019 with funding until 2027. The contract is delivered by a Strategic Partnership (comprising Touchstone as the lead, Community Links and Leeds Mind) and a Delivery Network (comprising 12 different voluntary sector partners).

The service aims to be easy to navigate for diverse people to access support for everyone to improve and maintain their mental health. Live Well Leeds offers a seven-day service, including evenings and weekends. This may mean working evenings / weekends on a weekly basis. Working days or times could change (with notice) according to service needs and individual wishes.

The service offers a range of services and activities including:

- 1-2-1 case management
- Drop in
- Group work
- Information and signposting
- Gender specific activities
- Culture specific activities
- Befriending
- User lead activities
- Peer support

**The Role**

To work as part of the Live Well Leeds partnership to recognise individual service users’ strengths, assets and provide support to maintain and improve mental health.

To assess individuals using a service wide framework and ensure that they are supported to access and benefit from the broad range of support on offer within, and external to, Live Well Leeds.

Provide a flexible, supportive caring and responsive interventions to and with service users. This will involve working one-to-one, facilitating groups and enabling peers/volunteers to deliver group support.

To coproduce, with service users, goal-oriented support plans and review them regularly.

The service currently covers the entire Leeds Metropolitan District, with the potential to travel to and work from multiple locations of delivery.

**Essential Skills and Experience**:

- Good mental health assessment skills including risk assessment and support planning.
- Effectively managing own caseload to agreed targets & timescales.
- Effective time and workload management skills, including prioritising work and meeting targets/deadlines.
- Good interpersonal skills including listening and displaying empathy.
- Ability to provide emotional and practical support.
- Able to build and maintain relationships whilst maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including accuracy and attention to detail.
- Good IT skills (such as Microsoft Applications e.g. Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook, Access).
- Work proactively within a diverse partnership of services
- Direct work experience with people experiencing mental health difficulties with positive outcomes.
- Experience of working with people from diverse and marginalised communities, and tailoring support to their needs.
- Experience of offering one-to-one support and groups interventions.
- Effectively working as part of a team.
- Monitoring and evaluating systems including effective record keeping.
- Effectively managing referrals and case load to agreed targets & timescales.
- Living our core values every day.

**Hours - 22 hours per week**

**Scale - Grade 2 - support worker**

**Salary - £25,231 per Annum, pro rata**

**Contract - permanent**

**Closing Date: 19th June 2025**

**Interview Date: 3rd July 2025**

**The role is based at Touchstone Support Centre, 53-55 Harehills Avenue, LS8 4EX.**

Reg charity number: 1007625

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: From £25,231.00 per year

Expected hours: 22 per week

Work Location: In person