Caniad Mental Health Co-Ordinator

Caniad Mental Health Co-ordinator

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring Mental Health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

Hours: 15 hrs per week

Salary: £21,507.75 per annum (pro rata) (pending April 2024 pay increments)

Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)

Based at: Various locations across North Wales

Responsible to: Team Leader

Job Purpose:

Caniad is a North Wales substance misuse and Mental Health service user and carer involvement project hosted by Adferiad. The postholder will be responsible for offering support within Mental Health services across Conwy and Denbighshire. To work as part of a team to facilitate involvement opportunities and bring together a range of people who have recent experience of Mental Health services.

The project will identify involvement opportunities, facilitate attendance at meetings, forums, and events, recruit new members, support provision of relevant training and IT support, reimburse expenses and administer the project’s time banking scheme.

To work with individuals who use co-occurring Mental Health and or substance misuse services to facilitate a range of mechanisms to share their views and experiences and contribute towards the planning, design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the services they receive.

Full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential for this role.

Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace.

All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.

We are a living wage employer.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=c12fd23c-909a-4d20-84b9-76186b2f5ec7

If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £21,507.75 per year

Expected hours: 15 per week

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Financial planning services
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Day shift

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes (required)
• NVQ Level 3 in Care Management OR Health & Social Care (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: AC176