Summary:

Our Acorn Project team is growing, and we’re looking for a Senior Mental Health and Wellbeing Coach to join us. The Acorn Project is a 24/7 support service in partnership with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, helping residents to transition from secure hospital settings into a supported home.This role will support the Team Leader in delivering the service, assisting with the transition of patients from healthcare settings into the service, and developing relationships with key partners.

United Welsh is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation providing homes and related services in South Wales. We are passionate about building homes, creating communities and transforming lives.
We look after over 6,300 homes for people across 11 local authority areas, and our services help thousands more in our communities.
Helping people to live happily and in good health is important to us, and we are proud to have been named fifth best landlord in the UK.
We have a new building programme that is worth around £35m each year and in the next five years, we intend to build 1,300 more homes. We are ambitious about how we can help people to live their best lives, working with a range of partners including local and national government and the NHS to give people choice; tackling poverty, improving wellbeing and playing our part in ending homelessness.
The United Welsh Group also incorporates our subsidiary Celtic Horizons Ltd which, in partnership, looks after all our property services, and Harmoni Homes Ltd, which builds affordable homes and homes for sale.
We are also developing a new social enterprise, Celtic Offsite, that will manufacture low carbon homes and support the local economy to thrive.
With almost 400 employees and a turnover of over £40m, we are an ambitious organisation with a strong sense of social purpose.
Life at United Welsh centres around our culture. We live by our values which connect us and inspire us, guiding our strategies as well as the decisions we make day to day.

Job Role:

We are looking for someone with passion and drive to join our team, enabling patients to thrive and work towards an independent future.
This role will support delivery of a 24/7 support service in partnership with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB). The service will support patients transition from secure hospital residential settings into a supported community setting. The service will also aid the transition from CAMHS into Community Mental Health Teams. Eventually, the service will aid the individual to then transition into independence within the community.
The support provided will be responsive to individual need and delivered in partnership with the Intensive Case Management Team at ABUHB. The service will be based between Blaenau Gwent and Brynmawr, Gwent.
As a psychologically informed service, delivery will be underpinned by the application of evidenced based practice, with a focus on using the principles of Structured Clinical Management (SCM). The service will be supported by the Intensive Case Management team at ABUHB to develop support plans which are underpinned by the principles of Structured Clinical Management (SCM).
SCM is an evidenced based approach that enables generalist mental health practitioners to work effectively with complex mental health difficulties. It is a goal focused, supportive approach with case management and advocacy support. There is an emphasis on problem solving and effective crisis planning. Training in SCM and ongoing support in this approach will be provided.

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Additional Information:

Location: Gwent

Hours: 35 hours per week on a shift basis, covering Monday-Sunday

Salary: £34,586.21 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: Tuesday 7th January 2025, 9am

Interview date: 17th January 2025

We do reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

To Apply:  

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and cover letter to jobs@unitedwelsh.com. In the cover letter, please outline why you believe you would be successful in this role based on your experience and the essential/desirable criteria in the job description, in no more than 1,000 words.

In addition to your CV and cover letter, please also complete our online Equality, Diversity and Declaration of Interest form which can be found on our website here. If you do not complete all parts of this process, you will be at risk of your application not being progressed further.

We reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Within your CV, please provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. We will not approach these referees prior to the shortlist stage, and we will seek your permission first. However, references will be sought as part of our pre-employment checks for the successful candidate.

  • We would be grateful if you could submit the Equality Diversity and Declaration of Interest form with your application. The information you provide will be used for monitoring purposes only and will be kept separate from your application
  • Please ensure your CV and other documents are emailed as a Word or PDF file, as unfortunately, we are currently unable to accept applications in any other formats at the moment
  • Requirements within the essential criteria of the Personal Requirements will be used for shortlisting purposes. However, all the criteria will be considered in the process of making an appointment.

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