‘Level 3’ Subgroup [24]

This role is open to all living in either of the Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire areas. 

The Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Mental Health & Wellbeing Programme Board is a partnership structure of local organisations that address and respond to the mental health and wellbeing needs of the local population.

Beneath this Board sit a series of subgroups, referred to as ‘levels.’ Each level refers to a different part of the local mental health system.

The Level 3 subgroup focuses on the needs of people whose mental health needs are too severe for primary care, but are not able to access to secondary mental health services. This includes:

• counselling services
• support for people with complex or multiple needs
• voluntary and community sector mental health support
• services that support people who self-harm

This subgroup

• works to support capacity across the local mental health system
• links into and support wider ‘transformation’ and improvement work to the mental health system
• facilitates information-sharing between services to identify new areas of need amongst the local population
• works together to ensure that organisations know where people can be signposted or referred to

IMHN are looking for one person with lived experience of mental health to input into this subgroup. You will be joining another lived experience representative who already attends meetings. Please note: this is a temporary role until the current representative returns from a period of absence.

The subgroup meets monthly, currently the afternoon of the third Tuesday of the month. Monthly meetings last an hour and a half.

We are able to pay a rate of £12 per hour for time attending meetings, in pre-briefings, and time spent reading documents in advance of meetings (up to one hour per meeting). A member of the IMHN staff team will support you at meetings and in pre-briefing/catch-up sessions.

Please express your interest by 23:59 on Sunday 28 February 2021. 

Apply for this role – please click here and fill out the webform.