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Mental Health Support Coordinator (West Cumbria)
Growing Well West Cumbria
Permanent contract / 30-37.5 hours per week (Monday to Thursday or Monday to Friday)
£27-28k p.a. (dependent on experience)
Are you experienced in mental health first aid and risk management, and safeguarding management?
Are you passionate about mental health recovery through activity and a strengths-based approach?
We are seeking a calm and resilient practitioner with excellent interpersonal skills to be a core member of our multidisciplinary team. Outstanding observational, analytical and organisational skills are a must.
To apply, please view the full Job Description and Person Specification here on our website and submit a letter of application and a current CV to hannah@growingwell.co.uk by Wednesday 5th March 2025, 5pm.
Interviews will take place on Friday 7th March.
Mental Health Support Coordinator (West Cumbria) Job Description
Activity Lead (Growing)
Growing Well West Cumbria, Egremont
Temporary Contract (March – October 2025)
3 days per week, £25k p.a. pro rata
We are seeking an experienced grower with excellent horticultural and interpersonal skills to work alongside our existing two activity leads in the delivery of field-based, individual goals-based activity for adults experiencing mental ill health, in the context of a thriving commercial growing enterprise.
This includes assisting in the effective delivery of annual crop plans to deliver horticulture and greenhouse cultivation.
You will also work collaboratively with the Mental Health Support Coordinator to establish the best occupationally-focused pathways to mental health recovery, tailored to each individual beneficiary’s goals.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this position.
For further information and to apply, please send your CV and a covering letter to Hannah Wright, Manager at Growing Well West Cumbria, at: hannah@growingwell.co.uk or call our office on 07512 316 568
Activity Lead (Growing) Job Description & Person Specification
Deadline for applications: Friday 31st January
Lunchtime Assistant
Growing Well at Tebay Services
12 hours per week (11am-2pm, Mon to Thurs)
£12.60 per hour
We are seeking a keen cook to coordinate the heating-up, preparation, serving and clean down of a simple soup, stew or salad lunch for our beneficiaries on four days per week.
This is approx 15-25 meals each day, depending on attendance.
Food hygiene qualifications will be required but training for this can be provided and/or funded. You will also be required to carry out general cleaning in the building. Job shares accepted.
For more details and to apply, please contact:
Claire Mounsey, Manager
clairem@growingwell.co.uk / 07512 316 564
Application deadline: 5pm, Thursday 6th March and interviews will take place on Monday 10th March.
Immediate start for the successful candidate.
Support Volunteers
Growing Well West Cumbria, Egremont
1 day per week, Monday through to Thursdays, 9am to 4pm
- Are you passionate about people?
- Can you lend a hand to support them to recover and move on with their lives?
- Do you love the outdoors, nature and growing food to eat?
For every day session we run at Beck Green Nursery, Egremont, there are up to 15 participants at any given time, supervised by two staff members.
Each session also needs 2 x volunteers to support our staff in this work; sometimes helping individuals with additional needs to participate with the group, sometimes just mucking in to get planting and harvesting done and dusted for our Crop Share veg box customers.
Always being part of an awesome team that works together, achieves amazing things and leaves no one behind.
Full mental health risk and safeguarding training will be provided – no prior experience necessary – and you’ll be supported by a team of professional staff to deliver your role. Plus, PPE, a hot, healthy lunch and all the tea and biscuits you need are included.
If you can spare the time to support those in your community in most need of help, we’d love to hear from you.
Please contact Manager, Hannah Wright, on: hannah@growingwell.co.uk or call our office on 07512 316 568