To apply for this position please click on the application form button at the top of this page, and complete the form by the closing date of Friday 15th July 2022
Interview date- 1st August 2022
Start date for this position – Monday 5th September 2022
We are looking for a Sanctuary Manager
Base – Harlow Wellbeing Centre
Hours – 25-37.5 hours per week – Hours will be varied, but will include Sanctuary evening shifts up to 11pm
To apply for this position please click on the application form button at the top of this page, and complete the form by the closing date of Tuesday 31st May 2022 (extended deadline)
Interview date – TBC
We are looking for a Children’s & Young People’s Mental Health Support Team Manager
To apply for this position please click on the application form button at the top of this page, and complete the form by the closing date of Friday 3rd June 2022. (extended deadline)
Interview date – TBC
We are looking for Children & Young People’s Mental Health Support Team Supervisors/Practitioners
Base – Harlow & Epping Forest District
Hours – 37.5 hours per week
Salary – £32,306 per annum
We are looking for a clinical supervisor with experience of CBT low intensity strategies for working with children and young people to join our Mental Health Support Team. The post includes an opportunity to attend the Supervisor training to support the Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioners.
Ideal candidates would have a minimum of two years experience of working with CBT and experience of working in education settings.
This post could be suitable for qualified EMHPs, CWPs or PWPs looking to develop their career.
For the full job please see the attached job description here
To apply for this position please click on the application form button at the top of this page.
Harlow and Epping Forest District closing date 3rd June 2022 (Extended Deadline). Interview Date TBC.
A new two-day virtual conference for health and care professionals and stakeholders in mid and south Essex and beyond.
Do you work in health and care in mid and south Essex or support the wellbeing of residents through your work?
Join us for a brand new conference giving us time to reflect on our collective achievements as a partnership and look to our future as a statutory integrated care system.
Featuring the fantastic work happening across our system, including providers, local authorities, primary care networks and community and voluntary sector partners, you will hear from keynote speakers from across our ICS and beyond.
Colleagues and leading experts will be discussing the wide variety of activities we are collectively delivering to improve standards and outcomes for our 1.2million residents.
Liz Rothschilds unique & original show combines mercurial tales and miraculous truths collected over the years from life’s finishing line.
About this event
About the show:
Outside The Box asks its audience to embrace mortality and look on the bright side of life, with a weave of untold and surprising stories, a hint of history and some pithy commentary on the funeral industry (from one who knows!).
Liz shares her unique experiences as a celebrant, burial ground owner and death cafe facilitator, these encounters are swept together in a show which has been brewing inside her for years. The result is a taboo-busting affair that expertly handles the ‘elephant in the room’ with humour and grace.
As Liz travels the country to perform, the show evolves organically to include new stories shared by its audience, widening the experience. The post-show element of Outside the Box has been fabulously popular and successful, validating the cathartic power of the show and its resonance with audiences.
If you – or someone you know – has been personally affected by palliative care, we want to hear from you.
Palliative care is treatment, care and support for someone with a complex or incurable condition, and those at the end of their life. It focuses on the quality of someone’s life, managing physical symptoms, offering emotional and practical support to the patient, their family and friends. Palliative care can take place in the home, hospital, care home or a hospice.
We’re working with Havens Hospices, St. Luke’s Hospice Basildon and District, Saint Francis Hospice and Farleigh Hospice, so your experiences will help shape the future of palliative care services for local people of all ages in mid and south Essex.
Whether cared for by a hospital, hospice or community service, we would like to know what you most wanted and needed during this time, and if there were any barriers to accessing these.
The survey will take five minutes and will be completely anonymous, unless you have more to say and would like to leave your details. You can also contact us on 0300 500 1895 if you need to access the survey in a different way.
The Movement for Good Awards is an annual platform for giving, set up by all the businesses that make up the Benefact Group. It’s our opportunity to make a tangible difference to the lives of the people and communities we serve, by supporting the charities, not-for-profit organisations, and community interest projects that mean something to you.
This year we are donating more than £1 million, and we can’t do it without you!
Nominate a charity today
You can make a difference. We’re not asking for money, or any real time, just your nomination of a registered charity, not-for-profit organisation, or community interest company in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands or Isle of Man. Anyone can nominate and that one act could potentially mean an extra £1,000 to those trying to make a difference. The more nominations a charity receives, the greater their chance of winning, so once you’ve done your part, spread the word and make it a movement!
Through the Aviva Community Fund, we’re committed to supporting the organisations that are doing great work to build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK. We’ve provided thousands of causes with funding, skills and resources, and we’ve seen up close just how much of a difference this has on the lives of the people involved.
By delivering quarterly funding and year-round support, we hope to get behind projects that are making a sustainable impact on their community.
How does it work?
The way the Aviva Community Fund works is to back small charities with forward-thinking ideas and to provide even more causes with vital resources and sustainable support.
Did you know that businesses in Essex can access free workplace health and wellbeing support?
Working Well, part of the Essex Wellbeing Service, is commissioned by Essex County Council and provides organisations of any size and sector in Essex (excluding Southend and Thurrock) with a range of wellbeing support. Whether you’re looking for some mental health training, HR support to develop your management skills, or want to build a comprehensive programme of activities, Working Well is here to help!
There are four different offers available:
Working Well Accreditation – earn up to three different levels of accreditation by evidencing your commitment to employee health and wellbeing. The process is flexible and designed to help you meet the needs of your employees.
Mental Health Aware programme – for organisations looking to increase and embed mental health awareness within their workplace
Small Business HR Support – open to micro-enterprises, small and medium organisations without dedicated HR support
Individual MHFA training – one free place on the MHFA half day Mental Health Aware course
As part of these offers organisations can access a range of other training and e-learning, workshops, guest speaker sessions, plus a newly launched Apprenticeship Growth Programme.
To find out more please visit the Essex Working Well website or you can email [email protected] and one of the team will be in touch to discuss your organisation’s needs.
Have you explored the endless insights that Essex Open Data has to offer?
The Open Data site holds a wealth of information on multiple subjects, from population statistics to economy and community safety, giving you valuable on-demand insight to plan, prioritise and shape the services you deliver.
Want to know who is most at risk of fuel poverty in Essex? You want access to the latest Essex Climate Action research? Would detailed inequalities information help to inform your service planning? Essex Open Data has everything you need!
Essex Open Data is also sharing more statutory information with the recently published Looked After Children dashboard, an easy to use interactive tool enabling you to explore information that relates to children looked after by Local Authorities, including placements, legal status, adoption from care.
Watch out for the 2022 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment coming soon to the Open Data platform. It will provide insight on the current and future health and care needs of local populations helping us to inform and guide the planning of health, wellbeing and social care services within Essex.
Essex Open Data advocates for the use of open data as an opportunity to increase transparency and engage residents in the information that is produced and used by local government. We believe that communities, businesses and public sector organisations can benefit from the shared knowledge created by open data, helping us to make better decisions, as well as stimulating innovation across Essex.
ELS hosting a workshop at the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner Conference taking place 24 May, where we’ll be sharing our recent work with Essex County Fire and Rescue Services, demonstrating the impact it’s had on service delivery, and we’ll be working with partners to identify new opportunities to collaborate on open data projects. You’re welcome to join us, get in touch via [email protected]
The Community Challenge Fund is the simplest way to access money to make a real difference in your community.
You can bid for between £300 and £2,000 to fund a new, not for profit scheme, group, initiative or idea. This fund is available in Clacton, Harwich, Canvey, Harlow, Rural Braintree and parts of Colchester and Basildon.
You can only apply if you are :-
Applying as an individual
Applying as a group (The applicant and other individuals they are working with)
An un-constituted group (small scale voluntary groups who do not have any employees and who do not pay trustees or staff)
Perhaps you have been sitting on an idea for a while of how you can enhance your community and it has just lacked the necessary funding to get it started. If so, then this fund is for you. You may want to set up a food growing initiative in your local community to create a garden and social space, or perhaps you want to create an informal childcare club of likeminded parents in your local library.
This new fund is simple to apply for, so don’t worry if you have never applied for funding from a Council before.
The Community Challenge Fund forms part of Essex County Council’s commitment to reducing inequalities between different areas of our County, and Levelling Up Essex.
Examples of how the grant could be used include:
• training and equipment to share skills and create training opportunities,
• printing for a local event or newsletter,
• hosting and promoting an online magazine for young people,
• setting up a local community seed exchange,
• providing taxi or licensed hire vehicles to bring isolated residents together,
• setting up a clothes swap in a community hall.
For further information on the Community Challenge Fund and to make an application, please click the link below: