Trustees Vacancies

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We are currently looking for New Trustees to ‘Help Us Reinvent The Universe Or At Least Our Part Of It’

We currently run the following projects

Our Linkworking Project has been running for 10 years. We currently run sixteen sessions a week on the inpatient wards at the Bethlem Royal Hospital and in the community resource centres. In 2016 we reached 2217 vulnerable service users to discuss their care and treatment. These sessions are followed by a handover with ward/service managers; where we raised 2804 issues to address immediate needs. Our project supports service users to understand their treatment, services available to them and brings hope during dark and difficult times, in fact many of our team joined after coming into contact with the project themselves. Our outcomes and qualitative data provide insight for the CCG and have a positive impact on local commissioning.

We run 10 Mental Health Open Forums each year, attracting over 520 (2016) Service users. It is designed for service users to come together in a safe environment to meet commissioners and Service Providers, giving them a chance to ask questions and debate current and topical issues/services relevant to their recovery and wellbeing. Our forums also attract large numbers of carers and professionals.

Our Welfare Benefit Surgery has helped thousands of vulnerable people make and maintain benefit claims (634 during 2016). We also attend assessments and have won over 70 ESA & PIP tribunals. We support claimants to maintain their On-Line Universal Credit (UC) Claims; which is a major obstacle as many of our clients are illiterate or have no computer experience. We address immediate financial poverty through access to food banks and Discretionary Payments. Currently we work very closely with Mind’s Welfare Benefits service and have close relationships with SLaM, Croydon Council and the DWP.

If you feel you could help towards our aims and objectives please give me a call

Hear Us require Trustees to help lead the organisation to reach new heights.

SECTION B. TRUSTEES PART 4.2 Role descriptions (pdf document)

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF HEAR US (pdf Document)

APPLICATION PACK (Word Document)

If you think you have the skills, experience, abilities or you are simply interested to know more please contact Tim Oldham on Tel: 020 8681 6888 or email: tim@hear-us.org

Trustee Application

Trustee Full Name*

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RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS AND COURSES

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT Include any Voluntary Work or Experience that may be relevant

POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST If you consider that you have any conflicts of interest in applying for this post, please identify what these are and how you would manage them.

PERSONAL STATEMENT Please use the Person Specification and Job Description to tell us what specific experience you have that will be helpful for this post (in no more than 500 words)

Referee 1: Full Name

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Referee 2: Full Name

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Where did you hear about this post?

As a mental health service user group, we are interested in employing people who have dealt with their own emotional distress, or have coped with their own mental illness. Have you, either currently, or in the past, had a mental illness, or experienced a period of acute emotional distress with which you have needed help? As a Trustee this is not required.*

If yes, then please describe

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