Work With Us
#JoinOurMovement
Our staff, volunteers, and patrons champion our
vision to create a community where living with, and
talking about Mental Health, becomes acceptable
for everyone.
We value what your history and lived experiences,
alongside your professional and academic background
can bring to the charity, and the people we support.
Sharing your knowledge could help the lives of many.
View our staff vacancies below to find out how
you could make a difference today.

Work With Us
#JoinOurMovement
Our staff, volunteers, and patrons champion our vision to create a community where living with, and talking about Mental Health, becomes acceptable for everyone.
We value what your history and lived experiences, alongside your professional and academic background can bring to the charity, and the people we support. Sharing your knowledge could help the lives of many.
View our staff vacancies below to find out how you could make a difference today.

Current Opportunities
Job Title: Active Monitoring Practitioner
Responsible to: Team Leader
Hours: Full Time and Part Time options
Contract: Fixed Term Contract – until end of March 2024
Location: Remote working with face to face in BCP Area of Dorset when required
Pay: B3 – £11.03 per hour
We have an exciting opportunity coming up in the Adult Services team at Dorset Mind. We are looking for Active Monitoring Practitioners to work in multiple Primary Care Networks across Dorset to deliver early intervention for people over the age of 16 experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.
Active Monitoring is a programme of supportive intervention and guided self-help to improve mental health and wellbeing. Active Monitoring Practitioners offer a series of interventions over a six-week period. They provide support through pre-designed guided psycho-educational programmes. We offer a number of pathways for clients to choose that will guide their progress throughout your sessions. These pathways include anxiety and panic attacks, low mood and depression, managing stress, managing anger, low self-esteem, managing isolation, and grief and loss. Active Monitoring Practitioners will help clients to select the one that is right for them.
We have services that run in partnership with the following medical groups: Shore Medical Group, Bournemouth Central Medical Group, Poole Central Medical Group, South Coast Medical Group, North Poole Medical Group, North Bournemouth Medical Group, Purbeck Group, and Weymouth and Portland Group.
The successful candidate will be offering the Active Monitoring appointments via remote working and at GP surgeries on set days on a 1:1 basis. Please note there are various working models available for these roles. Some roles will be offered remotely, whilst others will require a hybrid working model where practitioners may be visiting surgeries on set days of the week. Both full time and part time hours will be considered.
You will work closely with our existing well-structured services already embedded in the PCNs with specialisms in Children Active Monitoring, and triage assessments.
All training will be provided.
If this sounds like you, we look forward to hearing from you.
Closing date: Sunday, 3rd September 2023 (midnight)
Interview date: TBC
Dorset Mind endeavours to be a diverse and inclusive employer – a place where we can all be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the charity.
Please let us know about any adjustments required that would help you during the recruitment process.
Please note CV’s are not accepted.
Job Title: Children & Young Person Practitioner
Responsible to: Team Leader
Hours: 37.5 hours a week
Pay Scale: B3 £11.03 per hour
Contract: Fixed Term end – until end of March 2024
Base: Dorset Mind HQ, Remote Working, Purbeck PCN
Dorset Mind are thrilled to be embedding Children & Young Person (CYP) Practitioners into Primary Care Network (PCN) settings in Dorset, and we are looking for supportive, caring, resilient, solution focussed, and confident practitioners to work with children wanting support with their mental health and wellbeing.
The successful candidate will be working with Children and Young people from aged 11 to 18 delivering a range of prevention and early intervention activities within Purbeck Primary Care Network (PCN). The activities will consist of mental health awareness sessions via facilitated self-help delivered either face-to-face or digitally to individuals.
You will also provide a link to other services and schools and in some instances working with adult practitioners to offer a whole family approach to parents / guardians and children and young people.
You will work closely with our existing well-structured services already embedded in the PCNs with specialisms in adult Active Monitoring and Children Active Monitoring, and Triage Assessments.
You will need to be able to travel to the Purbeck area on a regular basis.
All training will be provided.
If this sounds like you, we look forward to hearing from you.
We actively welcome a rich diversity of applicants to this role.
Closing date: Sunday, 3rd September 2023 (midnight)
Interview date: TBC
Dorset Mind endeavours to be a diverse and inclusive employer – a place where we can all be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the charity.
Please let us know about any adjustments required that would help you during the recruitment process.
Please note CV’s are not accepted.

For most staff the words Kindness, helpfulness, laughter and support of one another even though we are all different and have quirks or good days and bad days. For most people we are motivated and excited by our work and love to get things done really well for the sake of the charity and the participants and this is what keeps me motivated
-Dorset Mind Staff Survey, Autumn 2022
The culture to me feels very much like a family, a community – we’re all in it together, and everyone’s ideas and contributions are heard. The fact that even the CEO is incredibly present really just shows that it’s such a tight knit family atmosphere.
-Dorset Mind Staff Survey, Autumn 2022
The new training I’ve received has been the best part of my journey with Dorset Mind so far. I feel like I’m continuing to learn through training opportunities given through the charity.
-Dorset Mind Staff Survey, Autumn 2022
Volunteer with us
Without our volunteers we simply couldn’t do what we do. Our volunteers are the backbone of our charity. Dorset Mind volunteers help us deliver our mental health support services across our vast county in a variety of roles across the charity. We offer voluntary positions that suit the times you’re able to commit – and your level of experience.
