Job Information
Fedcap Clubhouse Unit Coordinator in Brighton, United Kingdom
Salary: £29,098
Location: Brighton (BN1 2RA). Office-based Mon-Fri 9-5pm
The Role
Clubhouses provide Members with defined work-ordered days, that include meetings, running the Clubhouse and decision making responsibilities. The role of a Clubhouse Unit Coordinator is to coordinate Units, which make up the work-ordered days. For example, an Education and Employment Unit where Members attend training, gain skills and search for employment; or a Business and Administration Unit where Members record attendance, host reception and connect with partners and stakeholders.
Clubhouse Unit Coordinators work side-by-side with Members doing all unit tasks. Programme participants are named Members rather than customers, clients or patients, and Clubhouse Unit Coordinators work to maintain an informal setting to reduce the distance between themselves and Members. All work Members perform in the Clubhouse is voluntary. Clubhouse Unit Coordinators continually encourage Members to assume productive and independent roles both within the Clubhouse, and in the broader community.
What is a Clubhouse?
A Clubhouse is a non-clinical model of recovery focused on offering people living with mental health conditions an opportunity to engage in meaningful work, with structure, routine, friendship, and social interactions in a safe environment. This social and economic inclusion helps reverse the trends of isolation and reduces the reliance on health care services.
Key Responsibilities
Support unit operations including catering, meetings, producing newsletters, maintaining administrative needs, and employment and wellbeing activities
Actively engage Members to participate in the work-ordered day, to identify needs in the unit and offer Unit work to meet these needs
Assist Members in planning out a full day’s worth of work and plan activities and perform tasks associated with Clubhouse Units
Identify and encourage use of the skills, talents, creative ideas, and efforts of each Member and how these can be utilised in the Units
Serve as an advisor, advocate, and resource for Members
Support Member’s goals to find meaningful work outside the Clubhouse
Assist Members with CVs, job searching, and educational and training opportunities in the community
Connecting Members to community resources and conduct refresher activities to Employment Advisers to encourage referrals
Person Specification
You have the ability to engage Members to facilitate and lead on multiple unit activities
You possess a strong desire to help others with empathy, patience, understanding, enthusiasm, and dedication
You exhibit characteristics of trustworthiness, integrity, and honesty
You possess the knowledge to, and have experience of working with people with complex mental health or other social needs
You execute excellent organisational and planning skills and are able to report on data confidently and accurately
You have strong communication and stakeholder liaison skills
Further Reading
Mental Illness Recovery - Clubhouse International (clubhouse-intl.org)
Fedcap Clubhouses - Fedcap (https://fedcap.org.uk/health/fedcap-clubhouse/)