Organisation: Cumbria CVS

Salary Details: Voluntary

Closing date for applications: 28 Jul 2025

Do you have a passion for mental health and mental wellbeing care delivered in Cumbria by the third sector?

Cumbria has a vibrant and innovative third sector that delivers 100s of fantastic mental health and mental wellbeing services across the county.

Staff and volunteers are passionate about the work they do and work hard to ensure that the services they provide reach out and make a difference to people from all walks of life and all of our communities.

It’s important that third sector organisations work together adding value to one another’s services, making sure we reach right out into the remotest communities and the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods and ensuring we grow and build new services where they are needed most.

Our services also need to be integrated with and to complement all the other services provided by our partners in the statutory and private sector.

That’s why Cumbria Mental Health Provider Forum is so important and why we need an enthusiastic new Chair to helm the Network for the next 3 years. 

Are you:

• A powerful ambassador for all the great mental health and mental wellbeing services the third sector delivers in Cumbria?

• Skilled at describing the third sector’s core skills of innovation, flexibility, working at pace and reach into disadvantaged communities?

• Skilled at working in and leading multi-agency initiatives, coproduction and discussions.

• Passionate about providing the third sector with a pro-active, positive voice in mental health and mental wellbeing in Cumbria

We are looking for an individual who currently works and/or volunteers within a third sector organisation that delivers mental health and/or mental wellbeing care services in Cumbria and who has experience of leading partnerships, multi-agency projects or Networks.

Please note: this is an unpaid volunteer position 

What is Cumbria Mental Health Provider Forum?

Cumbria Mental Health Provider Forum is a Network of 100s of third sector organisations all of whom deliver mental health and mental wellbeing services in Cumbria. The Network has been in operation for over 10 years.

It is a vibrant and lively group of staff and volunteers who value getting together to provide:

• an opportunity for local organisations to connect – with one another and with colleagues from statutory health & care services.

• a place and space for us to share a whole range of information about mental health and mental wellbeing services across the county with the sector.

• our sector with an opportunity to develop and deliver a unified third sector voice in relation to mental health and mental wellbeing issues, concerns, governance and structures across the county.

The network meets on alternate months of the year, with additional events held as necessary.

For more information or if you would like to discuss the role please contact:

Denise Majer – Chair Cumbria Mental Health Provider Forum denise.majer@glenmore.org

Clare Edwards – Health Partnerships Manager claree@cumbriacvs.org.uk

Please click here to apply

Deadline for application: 10am Monday 28th July 2025

An election process will take place between 28.07.2025 & 18.08.2025