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Recovery Support Workers, Waking Nights (Mental Health) - Recovery House Location: Birmingham, West Midlands Salary: £24,570 per annum Hours: 38 hours per week (9.5 hrs per shift x 4 nights) The Recovery House is a brand new, exciting, and innovative service for Birmingham Mind and is an opportunity to create a flagship standard of support and care for those in mental health crisis. The Recovery House is commissioned by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust and is part of their Urgent Care pathway. Working closely with the Recovery House Team, the role is pivotal to the effective and safe delivery of the service. About the role The Recovery Support Worker (Waking Nights) will work as part of a team in our regulated serviced and is an important role to the delivery of recovery-based and prevention services within Birmingham Mind. The post is central to providing 24/7 support to users of the Recovery House. This role is specifically to provide evening and overnight staffing for the Recovery House service. You will support the Waking Night team in providing a continuous and safe delivery of support and always ensuring high-quality and person-centred care. You will ensure that compliance and adherence to CQC standards is upheld and provide appropriate information to managers when requested. You will work in a person-centred way alongside colleagues and NHS clinical partners to de-escalate mental health crisis and help service users to return home. You will be pivotal in the provision of a welcoming, calm, and safe environment. About you You will need to be skilful in quickly developing strong relationships with users of the service and able to support the de-escalation of crisis and the provision of a calm and supportive environment, delivering person centred interventions. We are looking for someone who is experienced in the delivery of services to CQC standards in a regulated residential or supported living environment. Experienced in mental health illness, either personally or professionally, you will have previously worked in partnership with key stakeholders and partner organisations. The successful candidate will have knowledge and commitment to the Recovery model of mental health support, be experienced in delivering person-centred care. Staff benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, PayCare, which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme that includes free counselling, a cycle to work scheme, and a comprehensive training programme. Birmingham Mind is extremely proud to have a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities that we work with. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges as their perspectives enrich our teams. We are also committed to changing the ethnic diversity of our management team and particularly encourage applicants from minority communities to apply for this role. Our people are key to the success of the organisation, and we are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. We welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties. Closing date for applications is Sunday 13 July 2025 Interviews will take place on a date to be confirmed

Recovery Support Workers (Mental Health) - Recovery House Birmingham, West Midlands Salary: £24,570 (£12,285 pro rata for 18.75 hours positions) Hours: 37.5 or 18.75 hours per week The Recovery House is a brand new, exciting and innovative service for Birmingham Mind and is an opportunity to create a flagship standard of support and care for those in mental health crisis. The Recovery House is commissioned by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust and is part of their Urgent Care pathway. Working closely with the Recovery House Team, the role is pivotal to the effective and safe delivery of the service. About the role The role of Recovery Support Worker will work as part of a team in our regulated services and is an important role for the delivery of recovery-based and prevention services within Birmingham Mind. The role will be central to the smooth running of the 24/7 service provided by Recovery House. You will support the Waking Night team of Recovery Support Workers in providing a continuous and safe delivery of support, always ensuring high quality and person-centred care. Ensuring that compliance and adherence to CQC standards is upheld and provide appropriate information to managers. You will work in a person-centred way alongside colleagues an NHS clinical partners to de-escalate mental health crisis and help service users to return home and be pivotal in the provision of a welcoming, calm and safe environment. The Recovery Support Worker will support the team in mobilising the service and work in a way that conforms with the expectations of the CQC, NHS and Birmingham Mind standards. You will take an active part in all appropriate meetings and create and implement service user assessments and support practices. About you You will need to be skilful in quickly developing strong relationships with users of the service and able to support the de-escalation of crisis and the provision of a calm and supportive environment; delivering person centred interventions. We are looking for someone who experience in delivering services in a CQC regulated residential or supported living environment, who has experience of working in partnership with key stakeholders and partner organisations. You will be knowledgeable in and committed to the Recovery Model "of mental health support and be experienced in delivering person centred care. You will be able to provide a caring and compassionate care to service users, with the ability to provide and maintain a high-quality environment at short notice. This role will involve working on a rota, including some evenings and weekends. Staff benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, PayCare, which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme that includes free counselling, a cycle to work scheme, and a comprehensive training programme. Birmingham Mind is extremely proud to have a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities that we work with. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges as their perspectives enrich our teams. We are also committed to changing the ethnic diversity of our management team and particularly encourage applicants from minority communities to apply for this role. Our people are key to the success of the organisation, and we are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. We welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties. Closing date for applications is Sunday 13 July 2025 Interviews will take place on a date to be confirmed

Operations Manager for VAS & ICRT (Mental Health) Location: Birmingham, B1 2RA (with hybrid working) Salary: £50,087 (full time equivalent), £40,070 pro rata for 30 hours per week Hours: 30 hours per week Contract: Permanent Operations Manager for Vulnerable Adults Service (VAS) & Intensive Community Rehabilitation Team (ICRT) Services Mental Health This is a great opportunity to use your expertise and knowledge and join a passionate team dedicated to ensuring the best services are provided for people experience poor mental health. Our 4 Operations Manager roles oversee the 4 pillars of Birmingham Mind s work, line managing the service managers for each service and maintaining strategic relationships with key stakeholders. A typical week will see a varied mix of working with colleagues on the Senior Leadership Team, liaising with commissioners, and supporting service managers with developing services and key challenges. The VAS and ICRT services provide highly targeted and impactful support to people who access them, and we are looking for people with passion, who set high standards, love to see people thrive, and enjoy collaborating to deliver the best services for others. We pride ourselves on our engagement with service users in all areas, and our levels of lived experience in staff across the organisation, so any personal lived experience is a plus. This role is responsible for the operational management of two services covering 3 contracts: Vulnerable Adults Service (VAS): funded by Birmingham City Council and provides vital mental health support to the citizens of Birmingham in their own homes. The two contracts are Supported Housing for those in serious need, and the Lead Worker service for floating support in people s homes. It is a well-established service, with a strong team delivering highly valued support. Intensive Community Rehabilitation Team (ICRT): one of our newest services, it is co-located with clinical staff from Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust (BSMHT). ICRT is an alternative to inpatient rehabilitation, and the team provides highly flexible and adaptive support to service users, resulting in earlier and sustained recovery. The service is currently expanding, so this is an exciting time. More people than ever need our services, and there is always more demand than we can support, so there are always challenges and limits to resources. This is part of what makes the role exciting, as there is always room to create and evolve how services work to be most effective, and it means you will need to have resilience in your approach and be able to collaborate to solve problems. We think this is a great role and offers a unique opportunity for the right candidate and look forward to hearing from you. Birmingham Mind is extremely proud to have a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities that we work with. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges as their perspectives enrich our teams. We are also committed to changing the ethnic diversity of our management team and particularly encourage applicants from minority communities to apply for this role. Closing date for applications is Wednesday 16th July 2025 Interviews will be held on Thursday 24th July 2025 Possible second stage interviews on Friday 1st August 2025