VCSE Strategic Lead (Living Well and Wider Wellbeing)

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The VCSE Strategic Lead for Living Well and Wider Wellbeing is an exciting new role that will be focused on ensuring that the VCSE sector has, voice and influence so that Salford people are supported to live well, with a focus on mental health and wellbeing.

The role will be aligned with Salford’s Living Well programme and the city’s Mental Health Collaborative. These are the cornerstones of the design and development of innovative solutions to adult mental health provision in the City. As well as the alignment with Living Well, the lead will also focus on creative health, placed-based working, and physical activity.

The Strategic Lead will work across a broad spectrum of VCSE and public sector partners that design, commission, or deliver activities and services that support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Salfordians. This spectrum includes NHS Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, Salford City Council, START, Mind in Salford, Salford Community Leisure, Salford Sport, and Physical Activity Alliance.

The Strategic Lead will play a key role in ensuring that there is collaborative working and effective communication within Living Well. This also includes key stakeholders, strategic partners in Salford, Local Authority, VCSE, and NHS organisations. 

The responsibilities of the Strategic Lead will include: -

• Influencing key decision makers, ensuring integrated working takes place between the VCSE sector, Living Well and the broader health, social care, and wellbeing systems of Salford through collaborative working and effective communication with key stakeholders.
• Building mutual trust and understanding between VCSE organisations, within the broad spectrum of stakeholders to provide the opportunity for wider collaboration and innovation to meet the wellbeing needs of Salford.
• Facilitating open, meaningful, productive communications between the VCSE sector, stakeholders and partners.
• Actively representing the interests of the VCSE sector in a variety of strategic forums, ensuring views and opinions are sought prior to meetings and providing accurate reports on discussions or decisions made.
• Identifying opportunities for the sector to plan, develop, and deliver innovative solutions to support the wellbeing and mental health of Salfordians.
• Working alongside our Voice & Influence Manager to ensure Vocal representatives are supported in their role.
• Providing the Living Well team and stakeholders with thorough understanding and introductions to all VCSE services offered.

Living Well

Living Well is an innovative new service created and delivered by a partnership between START, Mind (Salford), Six Degrees, and Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust. A multi-agency team, collaborating to provide positive, humanistic, and safe experiences for those experiencing poor mental health who are unable to meet the threshold for community mental health services.

Living Well focuses on developing new ways for people to access support that:

• Recognises people’s strengths and potential
• Is designed by people with lived experience, service leaders, clinicians, and commissioners
• Is based in community settings and is easy to access
• Supports people's concerns with relationships, housing, debt, employment, connecting with their communities
• Is provided by the VCSE organisations and statutory services

This post requires an enhanced level DBS check

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate extensive experience of building multi-sectoral partnerships and relationships, as well as having outstanding communication skills. They will also have a clear understanding of the VCSE sector, preferably in Salford, and mental health and wellbeing context across Greater Manchester.

If that sounds like you – then we want to hear from you!

If you would like to know more about the role, please email recruitment@salfordcvs.co.uk  or telephone 0161 787 7795.

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