Job Description
The Community Connectors programme is an exciting partnership between Community Links, Aston Mansfield, Mind in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge, and the NHS East London Foundation Trust (ELFT).
Community Connectors work alongside ELFT under what is called the Mental Health Transformation Programme. The ethos of the programme is recovery focused, exploring needs through complexity (rather than diagnosis), a focus on a person’s strengths and assets, and on the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.
The Senior Community Connector will work alongside Community Connectors, providing supervision, caseload reviews, guidance, and day to day support, as well as managing a smaller caseload of people living with a serious mental illness or SMI. Specifically, the Senior Community Connector will lead on work developing strong relationships with multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) who work with primary care networks or PCNs (clusters of GP practices) across Newham. These MDTs are organised into two Community Integrated Mental Health Services (CIMHS) teams, linked to PCNs within Newham.
The Senior Community Connector will help to identify themes and emerging need, develop further support pathways for service users, and be an important link between local experts and local assets.
The Senior Community Connector will be supported by Community Links management to ensure the Community Connector team remains a vibrant, dynamic, and high performing team, meeting key programme aims and objectives.
The Senior Community Connector will work with ELFT as part of the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme. The ethos of the programme is recovery focused, exploring needs through complexity (rather than diagnosis), a focus on a person’s strengths and assets, and on the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.
Above all, the Senior Community Connector will act as an ambassador for the Community Connector team, programme, and vision – with an emphasis on ensuring strong awareness/publicity of the value that the role and programme brings to the Mental Health Transformation programme and the people it serves.
Your formal location will be within one of the CIMHS teams in Newham as well as Community Links at 105 Barking Road London E16 4HQ.
Qualifications
Essential competencies
- University degree and/or professional qualification.
- Local knowledge of services, provisions, and issues faced by people suffering from mental health
- Experience working with stakeholders and partnerships.
- A commitment in implementing the mission and values of Community Links.
- Any other duties deemed relevant to your role.
The above is not exhaustive. Required qualifications and person specification can be accessed .