News Archive February 2018
CLOSED – Job – Social Networking Caseworker
- £22,917 to £25,463 (between Grade 4, Scale point S1 and S5 on the Mind salary scale) per annum for full time, 36 hours per week. Salary on appointment will depend on skills and abilities.
- Hours to be worked – 36 hours per week, any time including if necessary, early mornings, late evenings, weekends and bank holidays. You need to be flexible and may be required to work your hours to meet the needs of service users (for example, if a service user needs to be taken to hospital emergency department towards the end of a shift or they wish to undertake a regular early morning activity) and this may be required at short notice.
Main purpose of job: To promote recovery and social inclusion in service users by facilitating their participation in mainstream activities. The aim is to achieve the following outcomes: assisting in maintaining and improving recovery; build self-confidence; improve physical well-being; improve social networks beyond mental health services; improve personal skills including educational attainment and reduce dependence on mental health services where appropriate.
The role is based mainly at Mind’s Social Networking Centre (which is just across the road from East Croydon Station), Fairfield House, 10 Altyre Road, Croydon CRO 5LA and the work takes place there and at other locations out and about in the community.
Staff benefits include an auto-enrolment pension scheme, 28 days holiday per annum (rising to 33 after 5 years) pro-rated downwards to reflect that this is a part-time role, and the opportunity to work for a ‘family friendly’ organisation.
All posts may be subject to enhanced DBS checks. Application packs are available below and should be returned completed to The Human Resources Manager, Mind in Croydon Ltd, 26 Pampisford Road, Purley, Surrey CR8 2NE or admin@mindincroydon.org.uk – Closing date Friday 16th March at 5pm.
No contact from agencies or media sales please
Author: Cat Ayres
Posted on: 16th February 2018
Welfare Benefits Advice Line Closed for February
The Mind in Croydon Welfare benefits Advice Line will be closed for general advice enquiries throughout February, due to oversubscribed appeal representation requests on our waiting lists and shortage of staff resources.
We ask that people continue to leave their details on the advice line voicemail for form filling or appeal assistance enquiries and we will return calls on these issues.
For general benefits advice please contact either Citizens Advice Bureau Advice Line on 020 8684 2236 or the Councils Welfare Rights Advice Hotline on 0800 731 5920.
We hope to reopen the advice line in March but will continue to keep you informed on this.
Author: Cat Ayres
Posted on: 1st February 2018
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Click Clock Art Gallery Art Exhibition – Theme: ‘My Experience of the Lock-down’
Our Hub Art group’s new exhibition at the Croydon Clocktower Click Clock Gallery (located in the Croydon Clocktower Café) will be unveiled at 11am on Monday 4th October 2021.
The exhibition is entitled; ‘My Experience of the Lock-down’ and will feature a variety of art work pieces by the Hub Members to express their observations during and after the lock-downs.
The exhibition will run for 4 weeks until Friday 29th October so if you don’t get the chance to see it that day, there is no rush!
Thank you to all the hard working Art Group members for their commitment to this event. Their enthusiasm and dedication has been incredible.
Celebrating Business Resilience in Croydon
The Virtual Awards Ceremony is the finale of the Croydon Business Resilience Awares 2021 and Mind in Croydon have been nominated in two categories. Our Social Networking Service (The Hub) has been nominated for “Community Collaboration in Response to Covid-19” and “Outstanding Team Award”.
The celebration takes place on Thursday 23 September between 6pm – 7.30pm. All tickets are free and anyone can join for a great evening.
If you would like to join in grab a ticket at eu.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=200227185&
Croydon Business Resilience Awards Virtual Ceremony 2021
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The Croydon Business Resilience Awards 2021 will recognise and celebrate the resilience of businesses in Croydon over the last 12 months. We would love for you to join us at the virtual celebrations.Mind in Croydon and the Croydon BME Forum have formed an exciting new partnership, the PIC Partnership to deliver this innovative, explorative project.
We are looking for 1 x Mental Health Personal Independence Co-ordinator (MHPIC) to join the team of 5 MHPICs. The role involves working directly within the new Integrated Care Network Plus areas right across the Borough of Croydon and with clinical partners, including local GPs, in multi-disciplinary teams. As one of our enthusiastic MHPICs you will be the direct named key worker for a set number of people within the newly formed Croydon Health & Well Being Space. You will enable people to develop their own Personal Recovery Plans and support them directly to find and access the support and services available to them in their local community. You will ensure that people are enabled to identify their own goals, needs and wishes and are empowered to achieve them.
For more information and application forms visit: www.mindincroydon.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/
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We are very aware at Mind in Croydon that people really are our main asset. Attracting the right recruits and retaining them is of paramount importance and ensures that our clients get the best possible service. The benefits we can offer are a flexible and genuinely family-friendly environment – m...JOB - Croydon Health and Wellbeing Space Senior Administrator and Volunteer Coordinator – (Ref-MMSAC.2021.M)
Mind in Croydon is a highly regarded registered charity operating in the Borough for over 50 years. Mind in Croydon and Croydon BME Forum have formed an exciting new partnership to deliver on an innovative new project, the Croydon Health & WellBeing Space (CHWS), based in the Whitgift Centre, Central Croydon .
The CHWS Senior Administrator and Volunteer Co-ordinator will support the CHWS Team Manager in the operational administration of the non-clinical, client-facing aspects of the service provided by the Mind in Croydon/Croydon BME Forum Partnership. This includes the recruitment and day to day management of a team of 10 volunteers who will provide welcome and initial triage support to service users at Hub locations; the management of volunteer rotas to enable 7 day a week service provision; the management of data gathering, reporting and onward referral to co-located clinical and non-clinical support through bespoke IT systems; and the day-to-day management and utilisation of CHWS buildings.
For more information and application forms visit: www.mindincroydon.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/
www.mindincroydon.org.uk
We are very aware at Mind in Croydon that people really are our main asset. Attracting the right recruits and retaining them is of paramount importance and ensures that our clients get the best possible service. The benefits we can offer are a flexible and genuinely family-friendly environment – m...JOBS - Croydon Health and Wellbeing Space Support Worker & Carers Support Worker
Mind in Croydon is a highly regarded registered charity operating in the Borough for over 50 years. Mind in Croydon and Croydon BME Forum have formed an exciting new partnership to deliver on an innovative new project, the Croydon Health & WellBeing Space (CHWS), based in the Whitgift Centre, Central Croydon .
We are looking for 2 x Mental Health Support Workers for these interesting and varied roles. One will work directly with Croydon residents referred with mental health issues and the other role will focus on the carers of residents with mental health issues.
CHWS Support Workers will provide advice, information, mental health support and representation to Croydon residents who are referred to the Health and Wellbeing Space through the local Integrated Care Network Plus (ICN+) multi-disciplinary clinical and community mental health support teams (MDTs). Over the next two years, we will be launching other Health and Wellbeing Spaces based in North and/or South Croydon.
For more information and the application forms visit: www.mindincroydon.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/
www.mindincroydon.org.uk
We are very aware at Mind in Croydon that people really are our main asset. Attracting the right recruits and retaining them is of paramount importance and ensures that our clients get the best possible service. The benefits we can offer are a flexible and genuinely family-friendly environment – m...
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