SALARY & HOURS:
Total Hours: 37 hours per week –
7.5 hours NJC Scale Points 12 – 13, starting at £27,711 pa/pro rata
29.5 hours NJC Scale points 07 – 11, starting at £ £25,584 pa/pro rata
This role is fixed term up to March 2026, with the 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 the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.
The Community Rehabilitation Enhanced Support Team (CREST) is a unique community mental health service providing intensive and flexible wrap around support for individuals across West Yorkshire (Leeds, Kirklees, Calderdale, Wakefield, & Bradford). Many service users have experienced long lengths of stay in locked hospital placements and are disconnected from their community. We work with service users and their family and carers prior to discharge, supporting them into step down provision and beyond.
The successful candidate will assist the CREST Peer Support and Recovery Co-Ordinator to provide effective team leadership and management of the service and deputise for the CREST Peer Support and Recovery Co-ordinator in their absence.
Information Session: Monday 11 November, 12pm – 1pm via MS Teams
To attend, please email recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk for a link.
CLOSING DATE: Sunday 17 November 2024
Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 27 November 2024
For more information about the role, please contact Tristan Batten at tristanb@touchstonesupport.org.uk
To apply, please send your application form to recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk
Application forms and documents:
Advice on Completing Application Forms
Job Applicants Privacy Notice (2024)
As an employee of Touchstone, all successful applicants continually benefit from the following:
- Personal wellbeing budget
- 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
- Agile working policy
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to counselling and 24/7 confidential staff Mindful Employer helpline
- Health and wellbeing and fun organisational staff away days
- Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
- A full range of staff and peer support networks
- Excellent staff engagement
- Lots of learning and development opportunities
Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. Further information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you. Applications can be obtained by e-mailing recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk.
