Mental Health Support Coordinator

Organisation: Growing Well

Salary Details: £31,000-£32,500 Per year

Closing date for applications: 13 Jul 2026

Description:

Are you passionate about helping people improve their mental health through activity and a goal-based approach?

Do you have knowledge of Mental Health First Aid, risk management, and safeguarding management?

If so, we’d love to hear from you. We are seeking an experienced individual for the role of Mental Health Support Coordinator to lead our support service within our Growing Well West Cumbria site based at Egremont.

Responsibilities:

The role of the Mental Health Support Coordinator is to:

Lead the support service within Growing Well West Cumbria.

  • Processing and assessing admissions to the service, ensuring that all Volunteers (people we support) are set up to succeed (and if this is not possible, that they are signposted to other, appropriate services).
  • Curating personal pathways for individuals through the service, with a focus on recovery through activity.
  • Supporting each Volunteer in defining their own overarching and smaller, weekly goals and ensuring that these are understood by the activity/ training leaders and non-core volunteers. Goals may be redefined many times as the individual progresses.
  • Maintaining clear, legible, contemporaneous documentation that is fit for purpose in individual records.
  • Monitoring and managing all impact/progress data relating to our Volunteers:
  1. Sharing individualised data as appropriate with the Volunteer, relevant staff, including the activity and training managers, and supporters (where relevant), with Volunteers’ consent.
  2. Communicating anonymised collated data more widely e.g. with the fundraising team and Board of Trustees.
  • Being Designated Safeguarding Lead for the site: leading and completing all safeguarding, risk management and Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) interventions.
  • Signposting volunteers to other, partner services in the statutory, voluntary and commercial sectors, to support their recovery from mental ill health and provide opportunities for progression.
  • Working with the Group Therapeutic team to develop Growing Well’s therapeutic service, for both therapeutic and commercial benefit to the organisation.

All staff are expected to:

  • Be involved in all aspects of the Growing Well community.
  • Uphold the values of Growing Well, including those of honesty, inclusion, equality, participation, empowering individual agency.
  • Be an effective communicator and encourage openness.
  • Contribute to providing an environment that is physically and emotionally safe.

For more information and how to apply, please click HERE.