CLOSED- Health Engagement Officer (Croydon)

• 18 hours a week.
• Salary £26k – £28k per annum (Depending on experience)
• Contract: 1-year fixed term.

Living with a Serious Mental Illness (SMI) can reduce life expectancy by 10-20 years.

Join us on our mission to empower and support those living with a diagnosis of SMI to become more independent and able to look after their health.

This role has been created by a new pilot service within the Southwest London Local Mind Partnership (Mind in Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster, Mind in Croydon, Mind in Kingston, and Richmond Borough Mind).

About the Role

• You’ll work with Primary Care Networks, GP practices, Health clinics and existing local SMI providers.
• Your great planning, organisational and interpersonal skills will enable you to manage your team ultimately to successfully target and engage the 5% of hardest to reach individuals. 
• You’ll work flexibly with service users to remove barriers that people living with SMI encounter when accessing their annual health checks.

Health Engagement Officer Job Description Feb 2023

About you

• You’re a proactive and flexible worker
• You are organised and able to coordinate activity across the borough of Croydon
• It’s essential that you are an effective communicator, managing relationships and partnerships including NHS teams, Practice staff, clinicians and voluntary sector partners.

About us

• Our collaboration across Southwest London enables us to transform outcomes for those with Serious Mental Illness.
• We are an equal opportunities employer. No job applicant or employee will be discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
• Many of our staff have lived mental health experiences and we encourage applicants who know what it’s like to live with a mental health problem.
• We have an excellent track record of delivering high quality services to a range of local communities across the boroughs we serve.
• We have a collaborative workforce that works in partnership with statutory and non-statutory organisations and a wide range of stakeholders.

Application process

Closing date: Monday 20^th February 2023 9.00am

Please complete the following form’s and send to hr@mindincroydon.org.uk

Health Engagement Officer Application Form Feb 2023

Recruitment Equality And Diversity Monitoring Form

Interviews: Actively Interviewing, last date likely w/c Monday 27^th February 2023

Mind in Croydon Partnership with Network Rail

On Monday 23^rd January Peter Phillips attending a launch event at the University of Warwick. The launch session provided an opportunity for Network Rail teams to be allocated to charities and for both parties to introduce each other and learn more about the projects that will be taking place. These introductions will then be followed by a meeting between both parties to discuss next steps and a general overall plan going forward. As part of the project Network Rail have placed teams of their emerging leaders with a charity to deliver a specific project requested by the charity. The team will work alongside the charity over an 11 month period.

Advocacy Awareness Week 2022

What is an IMHA?

 An IMHA is an Independent Mental Health Advocate.

 IMHA’s support people who have been detained or are under a restriction of the Mental Health Act (1983).

 Advocacy is supporting someone to get their views and wishes heard.

 and to uphold their rights under the MHA.

To find out more, visit Advocacy – Mind in Croydon

The Vaccine Easy Exhibition

Monday 10th October to Sunday 23rd October 2022

Opening celebration: 10th October 2022, 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Location: Croydon Health & Wellbeing Space, Whitgift Centre, 1st floor next to Holland and Barrett (Unit 1101-1102), Croydon, CR0 1UY

The Vaccine Easy Exhibition is a major show of artwork created by the wonderful residents of Croydon. This two-week exhibition celebrates World Mental Health Day and will take place between Monday 10th October to Sunday 23rd October 2022.

Hosted by Mind in Croydon and developed by local artist Saba Khan of ArtEase, our artists were offered nine art sessions over the summer. We were an incredible flurry of laughter, conversation, and art. We made power portraits, superb contemporary book covers, coloured paper cut-out gardens, shimmering blue swimming pools, and food and ceramic still life!

What was special about these sessions was that they also offered opportunities to explore opinions on the Covid 19 vaccine. The feelings of Croydon residents’ matter and whatever the view, we wanted to know how people felt. Through the works of Frida Kahlo, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, Grayson Perry, Chris Ofili, and others, artists explored healthy living, healthcare, selfcare and vaccine choices.

Join us at our opening event on Monday 10th October 2022 from 1.30pm to 4.30pm. Enjoy some art, find out what our artists said about the Covid-19 vaccine and learn how artists like Frida Kahlo and Matisse, used art for selfcare and healthy living. Saba Khan’s artwork made whilst shielding through the pandemic, will also be on view as part of this exhibition.

Please phone 0203 154 9539 or email dora@mindincroydon.org.uk to let us know if you would like to attend our celebration.

The exhibition will be open for two weeks, so if you can’t make it on Monday, pop in another time!

Croydon Feeling Good Wellbeing Matters Pop-Up

We warmly welcome all Croydon residents to join our Wellbeing Pop-Up.

We will have Croydon Drop In, Croydon BME Forum, Mind in Croydon and NHS staff on hand to give you information about mental health services in Croydon.

Location: Unit 1101-1102, Whitgift Centre, 21 North End, Croydon, CR0 1UP.

Date: Thursday 22nd September 2022

Time: 11am-2pm

Vaccine Easy Art Session Eight

Thursday 1st September, 1pm-3pm

Ceramic conversations

Join us for art, snacks, and ceramic conversations. Make a still-life collage, or painting of a favourite ceramic with local artist Saba Khan. Or design a new ceramic from your imagination!

Capture your opinions about the Covid 19 vaccine in your art! Or say something else! Bring along a mug, a vase, or any ceramic that you love for inspiration.

Don’t worry if you don’t have any, we will have some here too!

If you would like to get involved contact a member of the team at Fairfield House on 020 8688 1210 or fairfield@mindincroydon.org.uk to sign up.

Vaccine Easy Art Session Seven

Thursday 25th August, 1pm-3pm

What my plate looks like!

This is a fun art workshop for all the precious carers out there, and the wonderful people they care for! We would like to invite you to join us for refreshments, art, and conversation. Come to an art session that celebrates food and culture and make art about your favourite food moments or recipes! This could include time with friends and family, special occasions like weddings, Christmas or the Sabbat dinner, cooking, or enjoying a favourite meal alone. We will share exciting still-life paintings of food by Chagall, Pierre Bonnard, Frida Kahlo and Van Gogh for inspiration. Bring any lovely plates or cutlery, cups that you love and that you might like to draw. What makes this workshop special is that you can also have your say!

How do you feel about the Covid 19 vaccine? Tell us over art, and food!

If you have not had any caring experiences, but like this session, you are welcome too!

If you would like to get involved contact a member of the team at Fairfield House on 020 8688 1210 or fairfield@mindincroydon.org.uk to sign up.

Vaccine Easy Art Session Six

Thursday 18th August, 1pm-3pm

My beautiful story, my book!

Make a book cover, or poster about a wonderful moment in your life. Tell us your beautiful story, it could be about how you look after yourself, time with friends or family, what makes you feel great, anything you like!

You could also tell us about the good moments you have had after lockdown. If you have taken the vaccine, has taking the Covid 19 vaccine improved your sense of freedom, mobility, and life?

There will be lots of inspiration from book covers, Bollywood posters, paintings of dancers and acrobats by Matisse, and Picasso’s work on sleep. You can also bring any books or objects that inspire you! Join us for a fun art session with food and drinks!

If you would like to get involved contact a member of the team at Fairfield House on 020 8688 1210 or fairfield@mindincroydon.org.uk to sign up.

Vaccine Easy Art Session Five

Thursday 11th August, 1pm-3pm

My beautiful story, my book!

Make a book cover, or poster about a wonderful moment in your life. Tell us your beautiful story, it could be about how you look after yourself, time with friends or family, what makes you feel great, anything you like!

You could also tell us about the good moments you have had after lockdown. If you have taken the vaccine, has taking the Covid 19 vaccine improved your sense of freedom, mobility, and life?

There will be lots of inspiration from book covers, Bollywood posters, paintings of dancers and acrobats by Matisse, and Picasso’s work on sleep. You can also bring any books or objects that inspire you! Join us for a fun art session with food and drinks!

If you would like to get involved contact a member of the team at Fairfield House on 020 8688 1210 or fairfield@mindincroydon.org.uk to sign up.