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Salary: £28,441 per annum

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Green Fish Resource Centre (Manchester City Centre) and other sites as required.

Contract: Permanent 

Closing date: Thursday 20th February at 12 noon.

Interview date: Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis as suitable applications are received.

Outline of Service:

Manchester Mind and Gaddum have come together to provide a new and innovative service which will support people leave mental health hospitals and return to the community with the support they need to recover.

As a team, we will be delivering psycho-social interventions, advocacy, housing and welfare rights advice, support to young people and peer support. All underpinned by listening and ensuring people feel heard – because we know that when people are listened to, they recover. The team will be working with colleagues within the mental health, primary care, inpatient and community sectors.

Job Summary:

You will work with people prior to discharge from mental health hospital and then support the person get the care they need so they can recover in the community. We want to enable people to feel connected within their communities – to services, friends and family.

This role will work with a small but intensive caseload (max 15 cases) to focus on:
• Discharge: Supporting people when they’re ready to be discharged from inpatient mental health services to get back to the community and recover.
• Prevent re-admissions: Work with people post discharge to ensure they continue to get the support they need to stay well.
• Repatriate: when people are sent to an out of area placement (OAPs) advocate to get them back to Greater Manchester so they can recover in their community.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• To provide support to people that are ready to be discharged from inpatient psychiatric care to return to the community with the services and resources they need to recover.
• To work with people post-discharge in the community to ensure they get what they need to stay well.
• To effectively and independently manage a small but intensive caseload (max 15 cases), being flexible to people’s needs and short term changes in schedule.
• To work in a person-centred, trauma informed and culturally appropriate way that enables people to effectively engage with our service.
• To use your knowledge of community care, policies, legislation and statutory services to get people the support they need to recover and stay well.
• Identify when people need referrals to secondary services and make appropriate referrals.
• Independently visit people in inpatient and community settings in Manchester and across Greater Manchester, adhering to lone working and risk management procedures.
• Occasionally visit people out of the Greater Manchester area who need to return to their community in Manchester (all travel expenses will be paid and travel time will be part of your working day)
• Build relationships with key professionals to achieve your client’s goals (e.g. inpatient staff, social care, CMHTs, community services etc…).

Job Description and Person Specification

Salary: £15,798.50 (FTE £31,597) per annum

Working hours: 17.5 hours per week

Location: Green Fish Resource Centre (Manchester City Centre) and other sites as required

Contract: Fixed Term until 31st March 2026

Closing date: Monday 3rd February 2025 at 12 noon

Interview date: Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis as suitable applications are received.

Job Summary

Community Mental Health Transformation is part of a long-term plan to improve mental health services. Gaddum has been commissioned to support the facilitation of mental health lived experience in Community Mental Health Transformation in Manchester.

This role will ensure Lived Experience is a crucial partner in the collaborative approach, which will enable more responsive and accessible services. The collaborative includes Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care, leaders from local Voluntary and Community Sector organisations, Primary Care, Public Health.

Job Purpose

To lead and coordinate initiatives that amplify the voices of individuals with lived experience by embedding co-production principles into program delivery. The role aims to create inclusive opportunities for meaningful involvement, ensuring equal representation, capacity-building, and the removal of participation barriers.

Through collaboration with stakeholders and partners, this position supports the development, supervision, and recognition of lived experience representatives, fostering their contributions to service transformation while building pathways for their continued personal and professional growth. Additionally, the role ensures effective Lived Experience Coordinator – Manchester December 2024 communication, reporting, and evaluation to share insights, measure impact, and support service improvement efforts.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Reestablish a Lived Experience group, reviewing potential membership gaps and forward steps.
• Ensure the underpinning principles of coproduction are embedded with balance of professionals and lived experience representation.
• Attend the Transformation Group and other key meetings attached to the programme.
• To support Lived Experience representatives to lead on ethnographic story collection across the programme.
• Develop unpaid Peer development opportunities with Lived Experience representatives, providing Peer supervision.
• Identify and, wherever possible, remove barriers to panel member participation including but not limited to travel, childcare, carer responsibilities and translation costs.
• Ensure Lived Experience Representatives receive inductions and training suitable for their level of engagement.
• Coordinate regular meetings and events via a hybrid approach of face-to-face and virtual
• Manage the recruitment specific additional members for each of these opportunities, depending on the theme of the event.
• Ensure that panel members, whether from the core group or single invitees, are properly off boarded.
• Assist Lived Experience members to capture their experiences into their CVs or find opportunities in the community where people with lived experience are needed to help change services.
• Regularly communicate with Manchester Living Well, providing training and awareness raising and relevant updates and opportunities for co production.
• Provide specialist information, guidance, and support about service user involvement to Adult Social Care staff, partners and stakeholders across a range of services and departments.
• Maintain records and data and to provide regular monitoring reports and outcomes, including end of project evaluation report.
• Contribute to Gaddum newsletters, website, and meetings, sharing information and learning form the programme.

Job Description and Person Specification:  https://www.gaddum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Lived-Experience-Coordinator-JD-PS.pdf

Salary: £21,482.80 (FTE £26,766) per annum

Working hours: 28 hours per week

Location: Green Fish Resource Centre (Manchester City Centre) and other sites as required

Contract: Fixed Term until 30th June 2025

Closing date: Monday 3rd February 2025 at 12 noon

Interview date: Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis as suitable applications are received

Job Summary

Community Mental Health Transformation is part of a long-term plan to improve mental health services. Big Life group has commissioned Gaddum to support the development of the lived experience input in a key system change project for the improvement people’s experiences of services. Greater Manchester’s Co-Occurring Conditions project is centred on those who have concurrent mental health and substance use challenges.

Job Purpose

To support the development of lived experience engagement within the co-occurring conditions workstream. You will support people with lived experience to attend and contribute to design and testing session of services and systems.

You will work with the GM Co-Occurring Conditions Team and wider partners across GM to ensure lived experience is at the heart of mental health services in Greater Manchester.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Support people with lived experience to engage with the Co-Occurring Conditions workstream.
2. Attendance at events and publicising the programme.
3. Organising and ensuring involvement at Co occurring Conditions meetings.
4. Developing community interest Representation across Coproduction internally and building opportunities across community led groups and peer groups.
5. Developing Lived Experience activities to encourage collaboration, information sharing and opportunities.
6. Identify and, wherever possible, remove barriers to panel member participation including but not limited to travel, childcare, carer responsibilities and translation costs.
7. Work collaboratively with other coproduction leads across Gaddum.
8. Manage the recruitment specific additional members for each of these opportunities, depending on the theme of the event.
9. Ensure that Lived Experience members, whether from the core group or single invitees, are properly off boarded.
10.Maintain records and data and to provide regular monitoring reports and outcomes, including end of project evaluation report.
11.Contribute to Gaddum newsletters, website, and meetings, sharing information and learning form the programme.

The post-holder will be required to undertake other tasks as reasonably directed by the Senior Leadership Team, which will usually be commensurate with the skills and experience of the post-holder.

Job Description and Person Specification: https://www.gaddum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Co-Occuring-Conditions-Worker-JD-PS-.pdf

Salary: £16,522 (FTE £33,044) per annum

Working hours: 17.5 hours per week

Location: Green Fish Resource Centre (Manchester City Centre) and other sites as required

Contract: Fixed Term until 30th January 2026

Closing date: Thursday 6th February 2025 at 12 noon.

Interview date: Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis as suitable applications are received.

Job Purpose

The postholder will be responsible for two key organisational areas:
– Practice Education to an allocation of student social workers: 80% of workload
– Support with induction planning and administrative tasks relevant to the student placement programme: 20% of workload

The postholder will be responsible for providing student social workers with effective, high-quality supervision and support throughout their practice placements and maintaining accurate records of student work undertaken to inform holistic assessments of students’ practice. This role will entail stakeholder engagement both with internal leaders and external partners. The role will involve maintaining close working relationships and crossover workstreams with the Business Support Team, Health & Safety systems, and compliance responsibilities.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Student Social Work Placements:

• Maintain relationships with key placement providers through provision of high-quality practice education,
• Practice Educate placements for their entirety at the charity,
• Write reports relating to the above.

Support a continual and iterative induction process:

• Provide Student Placement Lead with support when inducting students to all relevant systems – utilising experts across the organisation to deliver elements of the package,
• Work in partnership with Business Support to implement appropriate systems relating to e-learning and hand over to line management during induction,
• Support the arranging of accounts, in partnership with the Business Support Team to enable new users access to the organisation’s systems.

Other duties and responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively with the Student Placement Lead to report on the above areas and work with external and internal stakeholders to realise the Return on Investment (ROI) of the above programmes,
• Working collaboratively with the Student Placement Lead to expand the reach and scope of placements across the charity, ensuring students continue to have an excellent placement experience at Gaddum,
• To support the Student Placement Lead in the delivery of training and information to external partners and supporting new opportunities that may become open to the charity.

Health & Safety, Quality, and Other Compliance:

• To ensure compliance and registration with Social Work England.
• To demonstrate commitment to Continuous Professional Development.
• To ensure compliance with Health & Safety systems across all sites,
• To support the Business Support Team in their coordination of health, safety, and risk management, developing and ensuring the delivery of Action Plans where required and feeding into matters relating to placements,
• To support the Student Placement Lead in monitoring student learning opportunities and ensure Gaddum continue to provide excellent practice learning placements at first and final level,
• To support the Student Placement Lead in the planning for team meetings with On Site Supervisors to share best practice and knowledge across teams,
• Support the implementation of Policies & Procedures (new and existing) so as to standardise the best practice across the charity.

The details contained in this job description, particularly the principal accountabilities, reflect the content of the job at the date the job description was prepared. It should be remembered, however, that it is inevitable that, over time, the nature of individual jobs will change; existing duties may be lost and other duties may be gained, without changing the general character of the duties, or the level of responsibility entailed. Consequently, this job description may be revised from time to time.

All staff are expected to work within all Gaddum policies and procedures.

Full Job Description / Person Specification:

https://www.gaddum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Practice-Educator-JD-PS-Maternity-Cover-Jan-2025.pdf

PLEASE NOTE that as we are interviewing for this position on a rolling basis as suitable applications are received, we would encourage you to submit your application a your earliest opportunity.