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Project Leader

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Kindred Minds Project with assistance from Southwark Association for Mental Health seeks to employ a Project Leader

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Job Title: Project Leader

Report to: Chair of Kindred Minds Steering Group
Accountable to: Kindred Minds Steering Group & Southwark Association for Mental Health Management Committee
Salary: £20 per hour on a freelance contract basis.
Hours: 15 hours per week.
Location: Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square, London SE5 0HF
Length of contract: 22 months

Background to Post: This post will be part of the Kindred Minds programme. Kindred Minds (KM) is a user led Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) mental health group, set up in 2007. We have been awarded funds from Trust for London to recruit a Project Leader, with the primary aim of creating a User-Led BME manifesto which we intend will guide positive change to situations affecting our mental health and its treatment.

Kindred Minds Aims

We are guided by the principle we are the experts on our own mental health needs.
To raise awareness of mental health issues, particularly as this affect us as BME communities and bring about positive change.
To create self-help initiatives and promote empowerment for people from BME communities experiencing mental distress.
To continually innovate genuine user led good practice and create models to be followed by the wider BME and other communities.
To create and support campaigning initiatives around the issues that concern our mental well-being.
To create networks for people from BME communities to promote our social inclusion and address collective issues.
To encourage creative thinking, sense of hope, and fun in our lives in delivering and participating in our project.