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Lead the Charge in Mental Health Equity with Mind's Dynamic Team
Overview
Salary £52973 - £59368
Location Mind Cymru Hybrid (Cardiff), National Mind Hybrid (Stratford - London)
Expires Expires at anytime
Organisation Summary
Join Mind's dedicated team in the Social Impact directorate, striving to innovate and transform lives by tackling mental health inequities. With a vision to maximize impact for beneficiaries and investors, Mind focuses on addressing disparities in mental health due to race, poverty, and youth challenges. This is your chance to be part of a passionate team making a real difference in communities.
Role Summary
- Lead the strategy to combat mental health inequalities, particularly for racialised communities and those experiencing poverty.
- Develop, oversee, and review equity strategic plans and their effectiveness.
- Collaborate with local Minds, external partners, and stakeholders to identify and overcome mental health challenges.
- Co-design and coordinate equity-focused programs and services on local and national scales.
- Establish and nurture strategic partnerships and alliances.
- Provide expert advice internally to enhance access and outcomes for priority groups.
Role Requirements
- Expertise in developing strategic plans for mental health equity.
- Ability to collaborate with a network of local Minds and assess best practices.
- Experience in leading co-design and coordination of programs and services.
- Strong partnership building and representation skills.
- In-depth knowledge of mental health equity issues and strategies.
About the team This role will form part of a mental health equity expert team that supports the development and delivery of Mind's strategic ambitions to address inequity within mental health, with a particular focus on our equity priorities: race, poverty, and young people. This team is situated within Mind's Social Impact directorate, which is accountable for innovation, transformation, Information, programmes of work and evaluation. Our vision is to create the best impact as a federation for our beneficiaries and investors.
The role As Strategic Lead for Adult Mental Health Equity, you'll be responsible for leading our work to address mental health inequalities, with a specific focus on our equity priorities around racialised communities and people experiencing poverty. This will involve the continuous development of our equity strategic plans and ongoing oversight and review of progress against objectives and outcomes. You will work across the organisation and with local Minds and external partners to understand challenges and barriers to adult's mental health and identify opportunities for Mind to address these, e.g. through partnerships and innovation, collaborating with key stakeholders, internally and externally, to develop and mobilise solutions.
Job requirements The post holder will: Lead continuous development of Mind's equity strategic plans, particularly focused on racialised communities and people experiencing poverty. Work with colleagues across the Mental Health Equity team to deliver the support offer to the local Mind network and assess for good practice, focussed around using the Advancing Mental Health Equalities strategy. Lead on the co-ordination & co-design of equity-focused programmes and services at both a local and national level. Build and maintain partnerships with relevant external partners, and represent Mind on alliances, collectives and strategic partnerships. Act as an internal expert and advisor on mental health equity, informing and shaping decisions to improve access, outcomes and experiences for equity priority audiences.
Benefits Flexible working, Wellbeing, Holiday and leave, Family friendly, Training and development, Financial security.
Applications details Please refer to the Job Description while completing your application as candidates will be shortlisted based on how closely they match the criteria in the personal specification.
