Personal Health Budget (PHB) Advisor - 1 Year FTC
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Location:
London, England
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Sector:
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Contract type:
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Salary:
Up to £30000.00 per annum
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Contact:
Rob Muddiman
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Contact email:
healthsocialcare@tpp.co.uk
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Salary high:
30000
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Salary low:
30000
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Job ref:
J69929RM_1553611643
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Published:
about 2 years ago
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Duration:
1 Year
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Expiry date:
2019-04-25
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Start date:
ASAP
Our client is an advocacy project charity that helps marginalised communities to speak up, understand their rights and make choices and they have an exciting vacancy for a Personal Health Budget (PHB) Advisor to join their team for a year, to be based in the City and Hackney.
As a Personal Health Budget (PHB) Advisor you will work with mental health service users to develop innovative solutions and choices to help them achieve their recovery goals with a personal budget.
Duties will include:
- To use a person-centered approach to enable the service user to access a range of services and activities to successfully achieve their recovery goals
- To actively promote the use of personal health budgets within local mental health services.
- Championing the user's voice and empowering them to make decisions regarding their own care and support
- Improve service users experience of discharge from secondary mental health care
- Partnership working with Mental Health services to support access to Personal Health Budgets for Service Users
Key attributes will include:
- Experience of working with people with mental health issues and an understanding of the issues they face
- Experience of work with a range of mental health professionals
- Ability to listen and build trust, to encourage people to express their own views and to represent clients' self-defined interests
- Effective in working with a wide variety of stakeholders ranging from commissioners to service users and colleagues
- Proven experience of running and evaluating projects or services
For more information please email rob.muddiman@tpp.co.uk
Closing date = 1 April
Interview date = 12 April
