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Vacancy: Employment Advisor – Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service

1st August 2024|Categories: News, Vacancies|

Salary: £25,480 - £29,310 per annum Hours: 37 hours per week Fixed term to 31st March 2026, with possibility of extension Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire. Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if

What Being a Service User Consultant Means to Me

29th July 2024|Categories: Blog|

In this blog, one of our Touchstone Service User Consultants shares what his role at Touchstone means to him... I’m speaking from the heart in talking about what it means to me to be a Service User (SU) consultant at Touchstone. As having lived experience of Mental Health (MH)

Being You Leeds Win Award for Public Mental Health

29th May 2024|Categories: Awards, Blog|

Being You Leeds, via their funders in the Public Mental Health team in Leeds City Council, has been awarded the Faculty of Public Health’s Sarah Stewart Brown Award for Public Mental Health for 2024. Being You Leeds were recognised for their citywide work to develop the service. This award

CREST Service Win National Positive Practice in Mental Health Award 2024

24th May 2024|Categories: Blog, Coproduction, Mental Health|

Touchstone are delighted to announce that our Community Rehabilitation Enhanced Support Team (CREST) have been awarded a National Positive Practice in Mental Health Award! They were recognized for their coproduction work in Rehabilitation and Recovery services. The team proudly work in partnership with NHS colleagues. Coproduction is a vital

LMWS’s Health Equity Impact Report

21st May 2024|Categories: Blog, Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service|

This past year has been one of growth and change for Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service's (LMWS) Inclusion Team. Our latest Health Inequality Impact 2023-24 (see below) lays out key highlights from this year. Read on for an intro to the report from LMWS Strategic Equalities Lead, Nick Burdett. This