Health and wellbeing Coach

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Health & Wellbeing Coachto work at HMP Northumberland.

Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity and thats why equity is one of our core draw on the expertise unique perspectives and lived experience of our people regardless of who they are or their background to help us become inclusive and anti-racist employer campaigning organisation and service provider that reflect the diverse communities we support as a mental health charity.

In this role you will work as part of an integrated care mental health team delivering Step 1 interventions working alongside other professionals to support the mental health of the prison population. You will be supporting people with a common mental health problem in the self-management of their recovery building a professional relationship of trust in a non-judgmental manner with every client as a basis for developing and enabling therapeutic relationships. This ranges from providing informal information support and signposting facilitating group activities and forums to developing and training Peer Mentors and delivering service user engagement activities. You will work alongside the other staff in the mental health team to deliver high quality mental health support during an individuals time in prison and in onward planning for their release into the community.

Rethink Mental Illness work alongside Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) to deliver an integrated stepped care mental health service within HMP Northumberland.

The team compromises a range of highly skilled professionals who work collaboratively to provide the highest quality of care for those with mental health needs within the prison and for Rethink Mental Illness employees this is carried out betweenMonday to Friday.

Diversity Equity Inclusion

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world our society and the diverse communities were working with. By including everyone we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer statusand are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone including applicants with lived experience of mental illness those who are Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer or Questioning Intersex Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA); people who are neurodiverse have a health condition or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background- regardless of your age religious or spiritual belief sexual orientation marital status veteran status pregnancy political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation

We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer campaigning organisation and service provider -and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in ouranti-racist statement.We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in ourRace Equality Action Planwhich demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.

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Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:

• Commitment
• Equity
• Expertise
• Hope
• Openness
• Passion
• Understanding