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Trustee, Lambeth & Southwark Mind

Job title:            Trustee, Lambeth & Southwark Mind

This is a great time to join Lambeth & Southwark Mind as we transition to a brighter future and formulate a new strategy for the charity.

Lambeth & Southwark Mind are seeking up to four trustees, with a wide range of perspectives, to join the Board. We serve a diverse part of London, with high levels of mental health need, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We particularly encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities and other under-represented groups with the relevant skills and experience. This also includes people with lived experience of mental health issues and people across a broad age range.

We are seeking candidates from the private, public or voluntary sector with one or more of the following areas of experience and expertise:

• Fundraising (securing contracts to provide services, and/or raising funds from individuals and corporates)
• Clinical Expertise (as a psychotherapist or clinical psychologist, ideally including a management oversight role over services)
• Strong connections with local communities in Lambeth and Southwark
• Lived experience of mental health issues

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to expand our existing Trustee Board, to bring fresh, innovative and realistic ideas to the charity, and to roll up their sleeves and work as a team with the board and staff to take the charity forward.  The typical time commitment for a trustee is 1-2 days per month.

If this sounds like you and you would like to learn more about Lambeth & Southwark Mind, please download the application pack and apply by sending your CV and cover letter to [email protected] .

We look forward to hearing from you!

Closing date for applications: Friday 29 April 2022

LSM Trustee Application Pack 2022

Lived Experience Support Workers

Job title:               Lived Experience Support Workers

Contract:             Fixed term contract, initially until March 2023, with potential for extension for a further year,          subject to funding.

Salary:                   £23,000pa

Hours:                   Full-time, 35 hours pw.

Location:              Marina House, 63-65 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ

As an independent charity affiliated to national Mind, the leading mental health charity for England and Wales, our main purpose is to promote the preservation and safeguarding of mental health and to assist in the relief and recovery of people in the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark who are experiencing mental health problems or conditions of mental or emotional distress that require treatment, advice, or support.

We are delighted to be working with Partnership Southwark on the transformation of Community Mental Health Services.

The purpose of Lived Experience Support Worker roles will be to help people to access the right interventions and support, based on the person’s individualised care and support plan.

Lived Experience Support Workers will be employed by Lambeth and Southwark Mind and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, based within the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Primary Care Mental Health Team. The postholders will assist in the implementation of a new community mental health model in Southwark with a focus on integrated care, bringing all the services and agencies that support people with different mental health needs much closer together.

Applicants must have experience of providing peer support for people with mental health problems either in a voluntary or paid role. We are seeking candidates with lived experience of mental ill-health and of engaging with mental health services, who are stable in their own recovery and possess the resilience to support others in their recovery.

To apply, please download the job description and application form and return to:

Sally Bushell at: [email protected]

Closing date for applications: Friday 8 April 2022

Lived Experience Support Worker Job Description

Lived Experience Support Worker Application Form