Job Title: Children and Young People Connected Minds Practitioner (sessional)
Hours: Offered in line with service demand and programme delivery requirements. There is no obligation on Dorset Mind to offer work, nor on the post holder to accept work offered. This averages around 20-25 hours per month. Fluctuates depending on programme delivery. In peak term time, this can equate to 30-35 hours, during holidays 10 hours or lower.
Contract:​ 0-hour contract
Relates to: Operations
Base:​ Venues across Dorset and home working. The localities for the next term of the Connected Minds programme: Christchurch, West Moors/Ferndown, Wareham, Dorchester, Weymouth, Sturminster Newton. The sessional practitioner would only be responsible for running one venue per term, as well as sharing the estimate number of hours required/week

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 09 September (midnight)

**Please note: we may close applications early.**

Main Purpose:

re you experienced in working with young people (aged 10-13) and have a passion for mental health and wellbeing? Would you like to work for Dorset Mind and make a positive difference to young people’s lives?

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate the skills and knowledge to co-ordinate and run our Connected Minds Programme for young people with low school attendance and associated mental health concerns. The role is community based across various locations in Dorset and will involve working with young people in a facilitated group setting, liaising with schools and managing a caseload of young people.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this role and a full driving licence and use of a car is essential.

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: Wednesday 09 September (midnight)
Please note, we may close applications early

Job Title: Head of Service for Dorset
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract:​ permanent
Base:​ Dorset combined with home working

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 23 September (midnight)

**Please note: we may close applications early.**

 

About the role

You will provide strategic and operational leadership for Dorset Mind’s services across Dorset, ensuring that services are safe, high quality, cohesive, person-centred and well embedded in the communities they serve.

You will lead the development of a strong Dorset locality offer, with a particular focus on service quality, performance, integration, stakeholder confidence and commissioner relationships. You will ensure services meet contractual expectations, demonstrate impact, respond to local need and contribute to Dorset Mind’s wider strategic aims.

You will have a central role in building trusted relationships with commissioners, statutory partners, voluntary and community sector organisations, people who use services, carers, staff and volunteers. You will also act as a senior ambassador for Dorset Mind, ensuring the organisation is visible, credible and recognised as a high quality partner in the local mental health system.

 

About you

We are looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of leading and developing high-quality services within health, social care, mental health, public health or the voluntary sector. You bring both strategic vision and operational expertise, with the ability to lead complex services, drive continuous improvement and ensure excellent outcomes for the people and communities you serve.

You will have experience of managing service performance, quality, budgets and teams while building trusted relationships with commissioners, funders and partner organisations.

You will be an inspiring and inclusive people leader, able to motivate, support and develop managers and teams to deliver their best. You are comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on operational oversight, using data, insight and feedback to improve services, demonstrate impact and inform decision-making.

A skilled communicator and relationship builder, you will be confident representing Dorset Mind with a wide range of stakeholders, influencing across systems and developing effective partnerships that improve outcomes for local people. You will have a strong understanding of community-based mental health services, safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion, and the wider factors that affect mental health and wellbeing.

Most importantly, you will share Dorset Mind’s commitment to delivering person-centred services, championing the voice of people with lived experience and making a meaningful difference to mental health and wellbeing across Dorset

 

For further details on this role please email:

 

Closing date: Wednesday 23 September (midnight)
Please note, we may close applications early