Caniad Mental Health Co-ordinator

Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services - and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated., Caniad is a North Wales substance misuse and mental health service user and carer involvement project hosted by Adferiad. The postholder will be responsible for offering support within mental health services across Wrexham and Flintshire. To work as part of a team to facilitate involvement opportunities and bring together a range of people who have recent experience of mental health services.

The project will identify involvement opportunities, facilitate attendance at meetings, forums, and events, recruit new members, support provision of relevant training and IT support, reimburse expenses and administer the project's time banking scheme.

To work with individuals who use co-occurring mental health and or substance misuse services to facilitate a range of mechanisms to share their views and experiences and contribute towards the planning, design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of the services they receive.

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects., Disability Confident
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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.