Healthwatch South Tees – Improving Access to Mental Health Services Survey
Healthwatch South Tees (HWST) needs your help to engage communities across Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. All responses will contribute to the development of Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) mental health Community Transformation programme and inform the approach of the local Mental Health Alliance.
Along with the relevant Tees Valley Healthwatch’s, they are working together to collect experiences of what currently doesn’t work as well as suggestions what new approaches need to be considered. They are doing this through an online survey and focus groups with three specific identified targeted local communities which are the following for HWST:
- Ethnic Minorities
- Older People
- Carers
HWST therefore need your help in encouraging the people you support to complete an online survey which can be found directly here or via our Healthwatch Middlesbrough website here or and our Healthwatch Redcar and Cleveland website here. On their websites they are building a library of short videos to promote the survey to different communities in a variety of languages that may be useful for you to utilise. This will be updated regularly as they receive new ones to also support the sharing of information across South Tees.
There is also a paper copy attached if you feel that you can support this work by sitting with people who use your service helping them to complete the questions either face to face or over the telephone. If you are taking this approach, please let HWST know as their staff can support this or they can collect them once complete.
In addition to these options, if you have a group within the identified demographic above, that HWST could come and talk to, and collate their experiences in a focus group setting again, please get in touch as HWST can support the financial elements of this offer.
Pioneering Care Partnership Job Vacancies
Part-time Wellbeing for Life Administrator
Responsible to: Wellbeing for Life Area Lead
Accountable to: PCP Chief Executive & Board of Trustees
Located: Greenhouse, Stanley
Scale/Salary: PCP Band 2 £18,335 pro rata
Hours: Part-time – 25 hours per week (12pm-5pm)
Flexible Working: Given the nature of the role it is expected that the post-holder will work flexibly. This may include working extended hours, evenings and weekends or providing short term cover for colleagues in other areas.
Term: Fixed Term Until: 31/03/22
Closing date: Midnight Sunday 12 September 2021
Full-time Senior Research & Intelligence Worker
Responsible to: Mental Health Service Lead
Accountable to: PCP Chief Executive & Board of Trustees
Located: Home Working – Potential Outreach across County Durham
Scale/Salary: PCP Band 6 £22,701
Hours: Full Time – 37 hours per week
Term: 12 month fixed term contract
Closing date: Midnight Tuesday 7 September 2021
Please visit www.pcp.uk.net/vacancies for an application pack or alternatively email [email protected]
JRF & Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales Campaign
Keep the Lifeline campaign
In October, £20 a week is due to be cut from Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit – meaning six million low-income households face an overnight cut to their incomes of £20 a week, or £1,040 a year. The cut risks further weakening social security support, pulling people into poverty, and causing severe hardship for families who are already struggling to stay afloat.
The Keep the Lifeline campaign, led by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and backed by many charities, think tanks and leading organisations (including Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales), is calling for this cut not to go ahead, and for those on legacy benefits not to be excluded.
While other organisations might be raising the issue at a national level, highlighting the impact that this cut will have on people in your local community is more likely to get the attention and support of your local MP – so your voice matters. You can adapt use the template email here from JRF as a guide – but be sure to mention where you’re based, as your local connection will make your MP take notice.
We’re also holding workshops to talk through how small charities can get involved. You can book your place to join us on Tuesday 7 September, 10:00
If you aren’t attending the workshops but do want to raise this issue with your MP, or have any questions, we’d love to hear from you – just email [email protected]
Unforgettable Experiences – Digital Champion Volunteers Needed
