Do you want to make a difference to the lives of people affected by eating distress?
Eating Distress North East (EDNE) is the only eating distress charity in the region, with a 36 year track record of supporting people with eating distress and their loved ones.
We’ve got an exciting opportunity for someone with experience of coordinating and delivering high-quality mental health services.
We need someone to help us set up a new service for our charity, delivering non-therapeutic emotional and practical support to people aged 13 and above living with eating distress.
The Wellbeing Support Co-ordinator will recruit, coordinate and manage volunteers and paid employees delivering support and hold their own case load, acting as a recovery champion, promoting choice, self-determination and opportunities for connection and understanding.
Specifically, the service will offer:
- Befriending and emotional support.
- Support around meals, and food/clothes shopping.
- Independent living skills, including travelling on public transport.
- Support with leisure, social activities, and interests.
- Education, employment, and volunteer support.
We will provide full training to develop specialist knowledge and access to further training opportunities to contribute to your professional development, including through a training budget.
EDNE also offers a staff wellbeing service, 3% pension contribution, rising to 5% after 12 months, and a supportive and flexible working environment.
If you have an advanced understanding of delivering this type of support within mental health services and experience of managing staff /volunteers in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, we’d love to hear from you.
An Enhanced DBS check will be required for this post.
Enquiries and applications are invited by CV and covering letter via David Robinson, at Jobs with Purpose. You can contact David to organise an informal chat about the role by emailing david@jobswithpurpose.co.uk
To apply, please forward a detailed CV along with a supporting statement of up to 3 sides, setting out the reasons for your interest in the role, how you meet the experience, knowledge and skills & abilities set out in the Job Description and any other information you would like to share to - david@jobswithpurpose.co.uk
Closing date for applications: 5pm on 28th April.
Interviews will be held in person in Newcastle on 2nd May.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, and particularly those that are currently under represented in our workforce. If there is anything we can do to make the application process more inclusive for you please let us know.
