NHS Mental Health Practitioner NHS Scale Band 6, Point 21 – 29, £26,302 - £32,225 Location: Wakefield and Leeds Fixed term contract until 31st March 2018 Download Mental Health practitioner Job description Download Mental Health Practitoner Person Specification To apply please use this link – Mental Health Practitioner - Touchstone Closing date – 19th August at 12pm
Seeking to improve diabetes awareness in the South Asian community (where the condition is particularly prevalent), Touchstone joined in partnership with Leeds Community Health NHS Trust to deliver Sadee Smile - an 8 week course to help people understand and manage the condition. 11 courses were run in a variety of venues around Leeds, by staff who were able to communicate with participants in their native languages. When the course
Touchstone, in partnership with Leeds Community Healthcare, QISMET and Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research have been successful in securing funding for a 6 month project to run structured education sessions to support people living with Long Term health conditions in Leeds. Sessions are aimed at adults (18+) who are within 12months of having been diagnosed with a Long Term Condition, or who haven’t accessed any structured education before.
Touchstone Support is fundraising for Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Get ready for some more FUNdraising action with Tour De Touchstone 3: Rio's Revenge! On the 22nd July 2016, everyone will be invited to compete in 7 wacky events at each Touchstone site in the hopes of winning our First Place prize! Our nominated charity for this year is Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers who do
Back in March 2016 we welcomed Minja and Zellany, 2 Creative Practitioners from the South Community Mental Health Team temporarily to the Community Support Team. The aim is to create new alliances and partnership working across the CMHT and CST, develop new ways of working to supporting colleagues with caseloads and enable clients in their recovery. They were tasked to identify resources within the locality, strengthen the relationship between NHS
We had an amazing turnout for the Co-production conference organised by Touchstone and Leeds Involving People and - appropriately - a great sense of involvement and collaboration. Below, we've collated the responses and photos that many attendees published to Twitter during or after the event. [View the story "Co-Production Conference" on Storify]
This Sunday (12th June) a group of young people from West Yorkshire will be travelling to Paris for the first stage of training in the Find Yourself Leadership Programme that has been established by Erasmus+ (the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport.) In total, 30 young people (aged 18 to 25) from England, France and Sweden will take part in the programme, visiting each other’s countries in
Health and wellbeing charity Touchstone is forging an alliance with community development organisation Sharing Voices Bradford. The two organisations will collaborate to help boost mental health and wellbeing services across West Yorkshire. Alison Lowe, CEO of Leeds-based Touchstone, said: “I am delighted to be working closely with Sharing Voices Bradford, who provided the national template for innovative community development work. “There is great synergy between us in terms of the
One of our brilliant volunteers explains how and why she got involved and the benefits that volunteering has had for her. Before I started my volunteering with Touchstone I just had my son and was unemployed and unaware of the direction I wanted to go in life. I lacked so much confidence due to having no academic qualifications and past experiences. I really did not know what I wanted
Calderdale BME Health Forum invite you to... A FREE HEALTH AWARENESS EVENT Thursday 26th May 11.30am - 2pm Queens Road Neighbourhood Centre, Queens Rd, Halifax HX1 4NE Do you want to know more about local health issues? Any health topics you would like to find out more about? Come along to the BME Health Forum’s Drop-in Event and talk to a wide range of groups that provide health services in