About the role
Salary: £14.18 an hour
This role will support and work collaboratively with the Welcome to All teams and with the Open Mental Health Alliance. Welcome to All teams support Displaced People across Somerset. Open Mental Health' is a Somerset alliance of local voluntary organisations and the NHS. We are working in partnership to ensure that residents of Somerset get the support they need, when they need it.
To share coverage of provision for the Refugee Wellbeing Hubs across Somerset. Providing group support and where required 1 to 1 support to individuals. This will involve planning and delivering creative, engaging and inclusive group and activity support work that encourages and enables people to improve/maintain their mental well-being.
Using a person-centred approach to support and encourage service users in active engagement in identifying, working through mental health and well-being needs and in accessing the group support offer or other services within the alliance.
To encourage peer support within the group work.
To enable service-users to have access to a wide variety of activities that are centred around the needs of the communities we are delivering in.
To work flexibly and creatively to meet the needs of the service-users.
To adhere to our inclusive way of working and support a diverse group of individuals. This will include supporting younger and older adults.
To enable service-users to have access to information and signposting to other areas of support.
To work closely and collaboratively with both the voluntary and statutory sectors to ensure that we are connecting service-users with relevant services. This will involve warmly transferring them within the alliance. This will be achieved by adhering to the no wrong door philosophy.
As a Wellbeing & Mental Health Practitioner, you will enable refugees and asylum seekers with emotional, mental health and well-being needs to aspire towards and achieve their own goals. As part of the wider alliance, you will help provide support to link with partners offering English classes, interpretation, translation and advice in order to help EAL individuals and communities living in Somerset to overcome barriers to participating fully in the local community. We seek to prevent discrimination and promote social inclusion. Service delivery will include assessing need and co-developing recovery plans, supporting in facilitating workshops, courses and peer support sessions, delivering 1-1 support, providing face to face and telephone recovery plan reviews, providing telephone check ins and managing safeguarding risks.