Active Essex and the University of Essex would like to find out how the current situation is making you feel.
This survey will ask questions about the current situation and how it makes you feel about your work, health, money, other people and life in general.
The survey will take no longer than 8 minutes to complete, and can help make a real difference.
Your answers will be compared to other national surveys to work out how life has changed recently, and how we’re all coping. It will help them figure out what support is needed for physical and mental health during and after lockdown.
The Futures in Mind partnership works with service users as active collaborators in the design, development, delivery, and improvement of our provision of integrated support, advice and mentoring in Essex. Futures in Mind deliver an outward-facing, flexible community service to enable us to support the maximum number of Service Users across the full Essex locality.
We are looking for an individual who has experience in supporting adults in the community, working as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team, with a knowledge of the local services and the support available. Experience of working within Mental Health Services is an advantage as is management experience.
The Mind in West Essex Disordered Eating Recovery Group is for those that have battled with any form of disordered eating, from over-eating to anorexia, who are in recovery. This group will provide a safe space to talk and a chance to share with people who understand. We plan to look at the challenges still faced day to day when the disordered eating itself is supported and no longer a direct threat.
Please note that this is not a discussion group around food or how to manage your food.
If you are actively dealing with disordered eating, then we suggest that you contact your doctor and/or a specialist group to seek professional help and guidance first.
We will meet every week on a Thursday at 4-5.15pm.
We support people in the community and at work with a range of health, wellbeing and day to day needs. We help people access information and support to stay healthy, safe and well from help to quit smoking, to supporting families adapt to ‘new normal’.
We also coordinate requests and referrals for everyday tasks and connect them to our volunteers.
The Service is commissioned by Essex County Council and delivered by Provide CIC in partnership with Priority Digital Health.
Organisation: Citizens Advice Essex
Part-time, 30 hours per week
Salary circa £26 – 27K (pro rata where applicable) dependent on LCA
Location: Colchester
Deadline: 7 April, 2021
Citizens Advice Essex is the lead agency of consortium activities carried out by the network of local Citizens Advice (LCA) in Essex.
On their behalf, and due to our ongoing expansion and extension of some key contracts, we wish to appoint several key staff that will contribute to our extensive fuel poverty alleviation offer.
Advice Worker (Family Energy Advice)
Salary circa £26 – 27K (pro rata where applicable) dependent on LCA
Part-time, 30 hours per week
Colchester – 30 hours per week
Funded till October 2022.
We expect that postholders will have experience working with individuals to resolve problems relating to their welfare benefits and, more widely, their overall financial situation. Ideally, this will have been by delivering welfare benefits advice and casework in the not for profit advice sector. However, experience from other sectors could be relevant. If not already in possession, postholders will be supported to attain the City and Guilds qualification in Energy Advice.
Organisation: Citizens Advice Essex
Full-time, 37 hours per week
Salary circa £26 – 27K dependent on LCA
Location: South Essex
Deadline: 7 April, 2021
Citizens Advice Essex is the lead agency of consortium activities carried out by the network of local Citizens Advice (LCA) in Essex.
On their behalf, and due to our ongoing expansion and extension of some key contracts, we wish to appoint several key staff that will contribute to our extensive fuel poverty alleviation offer.
Advice Worker (Energy Advice and Engagement)
Salary circa £26 – 27K dependent on LCA
South Essex – 37 hours per week
Funded till September 2022
We expect that postholders will have experience working with individuals to resolve problems relating to their welfare benefits and, more widely, their overall financial situation. Ideally, this will have been by delivering welfare benefits advice and casework in the not for profit advice sector. However, experience from other sectors could be relevant. If not already in possession, postholders will be supported to attain the City and Guilds qualification in Energy Advice.
Maximus UK Services are seeking expressions of interest from organisations keen to explore a collaboration in response to the forthcoming Community Wellbeing and Resilience Service being commissioned by Essex County Council.
Maximus UK is a trusted partner of UK and Scottish Government, CCGs, local/combined authorities, and employers. We support over 2 million UK residents each year transform their lives through digitally enhanced employment programmes, mental health support and health assessments.
Our health and wellbeing expertise empowers individuals to change their lives, including demonstrable achievement and maintenance of improvements in lifestyle related behaviours as well as improving participant knowledge, skills and confidence through a range of interventions including health coaching and patient activation.
It was discussed in the last Steering Group meeting that it was time to discontinue the forum which is part of the Alliance membership due to lack of use. The forum hasn’t been used since 2019 and we thought it was time to develop the Alliance more therefore from next week the forum will no longer be accessible. However, we will be looking into starting a private Facebook group which will be linked to the Essex Alliance Facebook page
Any updated information on the private Facebook page will be announced on the ‘news’ section of the Alliance website.
As well as the forum, we will also be removing the official sign up membership process. After a few years the Essex Alliance has become more of a community, a platform where you can share voluntary sector news and information with all newsletter sign ups. Therefore, instead we will only ask that you sign up to our newsletter if you’d like to stay up to date with any sector news within the Essex area.
Extra funding of £4.45m is being distributed to the voluntary and community sector (VCS) across Essex to help contain and respond to Covid-19.
Voluntary organisations and community groups across Essex have since March 2020 been helping to meet residents’ need for practical, financial or emotional support through the pandemic. Food projects, advice services, mental health and domestic abuse charities and local projects helping people to shield, self-isolate, get tested or get vaccinated have all played their part (see examples below)
As we emerge from lockdown, needs are expected to grow and change again as residents hit by the pandemic pick up the pieces. People will be dealing with the mental and emotional impact of what they’ve been through and the changes and uncertainty ahead.
£1m goes to Essex Community Foundation for grants up to £20,000 for voluntary organisations
Essex County Council will distribute £1m directly in grants up to £50,000 for medium-sized frontline organisations.