Independent Mental Health Advocate / Imha / Advocacy / Charity

Independent Mental Health Advocate / IMHA / Advocacy / Charity
Home Based – Luton
Part-Time – 25 hours 9am-5pm (working days to be agreed)
Salary: £26,000per year.83 per year, pro rata (Full-Time Equivalent £26,000 per year) + Benefits

Giving people a voice – and making sure it’s heard – is something our client does every day. They’re all about promoting equality, challenging unfairness and giving disadvantaged and vulnerable people access to high quality information, advice and advocacy services.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Independent Mental Health Advocate to join their Bedfordshire team working in their IMHA Advocacy Service based in the Luton area. Your work will take you into the acute mental health assessment units in Luton and Bedford, as well as giving you an opportunity to work with people in the community.

You will be supporting a wide range of vulnerable people with sometimes profound and multiple needs, so ideally you will have experience of this type of work, along with a good working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Health Services.

You will be a confident positive team player, able to work in partnership with clients and professionals, gaining an understanding of their issues by listening, exploring options and taking action as directed by them. The ideal candidate will have worked in advocacy, Information and advice or similar role before, ideally in a health, social care or voluntary setting and will have experience of working with vulnerable adults.

You will need to have a flexible attitude and must be comfortable handling highly sensitive information, and in seeking support and supervision. Strong communication skills and time management skills will be required and you will need to be computer literate.

Advocates will need to travel independently of public transport (exceptions apply in London)

A DBS check will be required for this post.