Mental Health Support Coordinator

You’ve got significant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including on a one-to-one basis to enable individuals to better manage their problems and difficulties. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Waythrough as a Mental Health Support Coordinator.

Waythrough (formerly Richmond Fellowship) works within Pathfinder West Sussex which is an alliance of organisations working together to enable people with mental health support needs and their carers to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Pathfinder is commissioned to meet the ongoing support needs of people with mental health difficulties who do not require support from specialist NHS mental health services. Strong support to GPs and primary care services is therefore vital to ensure that patients can effectively access Pathfinder support.

Your role as Mental Health Support Coordinator is to provide support to GP practices in Horsham to effectively meet the needs of their patients who have mental health problems through the provision of direct phone, video-call and face-to-face support and by supporting these patients to access and engage with community support, particularly Pathfinder services.

Any formal qualification or training in relation to mental health, counselling or working with people with mental health problems is highly desirable for the role.

In return for your skills and enthusiasm, this role comes with some really great benefits and excellent training and development opportunities. Learning and development is important to us, and we are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of apprenticeships. We hire apprentices into specific roles as well as offering apprenticeships to the workforce. Anyone can apply to undertake an apprenticeship relevant to the role as long as they are in a permanent post and have successfully passed probation.

This is a permanent full-time role requiring the post holder to work 37.5 hours per week

This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or anyone from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic group.

On 1st June 2024, Richmond Fellowship, part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence merged with Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. In October 2024, Humankind was renamed Waythrough to reflect the new organisation.