Vacancies
Vacancy: Volunteer Co-ordinator
22.5 hours a week (open for some discussion on days but must include a Friday)
Salary: £29,406 pro rata (£17,643.60 actual)
Closing Date: 17th February 2025 (midday)
Contract terms: 3 year fixed term contract with a possibility of extension
The Creative Living Centre (CLC) is a registered charity, offering a person-centred, holistic approach to supporting people experiencing poor mental health and wellbeing in Bury (Greater Manchester). The volunteer co-ordinator role is to support our members to access volunteering opportunities in the local community to support their recovery and improve wellbeing and will also manage our established volunteer programme (recruitment, induction, training and deployment) for the local community to volunteer and support the work of the CLC.
Key Responsibilities
Application Process
Please send a CV and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the criteria on the below Job description and person specification to [email protected]. The closing date for applications is 17th February 2025 at midday.
For enquiries or for an informal discussion about the role, please contact us by emailing [email protected], or by calling 0161 696 7501 and asking to speak to one of the centre managers.
22.5 hours a week (open for some discussion on days but must include a Friday)
Salary: £29,406 pro rata (£17,643.60 actual)
Closing Date: 17th February 2025 (midday)
Contract terms: 3 year fixed term contract with a possibility of extension
The Creative Living Centre (CLC) is a registered charity, offering a person-centred, holistic approach to supporting people experiencing poor mental health and wellbeing in Bury (Greater Manchester). The volunteer co-ordinator role is to support our members to access volunteering opportunities in the local community to support their recovery and improve wellbeing and will also manage our established volunteer programme (recruitment, induction, training and deployment) for the local community to volunteer and support the work of the CLC.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and provide ongoing support to CLC volunteers, to provide internal and external guidance, with a view informing and influencing mental health services within the wider mental health (MH) agenda
- Recruit, train and provide ongoing support to volunteers (with lived MH experience) to co-produce and co-deliver internal and external courses / training.
- To identify and facilitate external opportunities for members with lived MH experience to access volunteering opportunities
- To support members to locate and apply for volunteering opportunities in the community, this may include support to complete applications, make phone calls and attend interviews.
- To create opportunities for members to complete one-off volunteering opportunities as part of the CLC’s commitment to the 5 ways to wellbeing model
- Ensure appropriate data is collected for activities etc as required by the Reaching Communities grant, and contribute to monitoring / review / future planning of the project and overall CLC delivery
Application Process
Please send a CV and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the criteria on the below Job description and person specification to [email protected]. The closing date for applications is 17th February 2025 at midday.
For enquiries or for an informal discussion about the role, please contact us by emailing [email protected], or by calling 0161 696 7501 and asking to speak to one of the centre managers.
Vacancy: Link Worker - Living Well
35 hours a week spread across five days
Salary: £27,500 (actual)
Closing Date: 12th February 2025
Contract terms: Fixed term contract until 30th June 2026 with a possibility of extension
The Living Well Team
The Bury Living Well Service is formed from an alliance of mental health services in the Bury area. The staff team is made up of staff from different backgrounds from Pennine Care Foundation Trust, Bury Involvement Group, the Creative Living Centre, and Early Break, and includes both clinical and non-clinical staff who employ a multi-disciplinary team approach to supporting individuals with significant mental health challenges in the community.
Job Summary
You will form part of the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) provision within the Bury Living Well Model as a member of the Creative Living Centre (CLC) Service Delivery Team. The Link Worker is responsible for case loading adults experiencing mental and emotional distress, offering person-centred and trauma informed support in the community both face to face and via telephone. Ensuring that service users are provided with both initial and ongoing support in either 1:1 or group sessions, as appropriate to their needs which are identified and reviewed on an ongoing basis. You will engage empathically with those you support, providing positive emotional and therapeutic support, through a collaborative approach which focuses on individual strengths rather than deficits, enabling and promoting autonomy and self-care. You will work alongside clinical staff and staff from other VCSE organisations to form multidisciplinary team approach to collaboratively support individuals in the community. You will be supported by the Living Well VCSE Coordinator, Operational Programme Manager and Clinical Lead. CPD opportunities are available and personal interests/skills will be supported to development and growth. This is a new post and there will be an opportunity to help shape and evolve it.
Key Responsibilities
Application Process
Please send a CV and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the criteria on the below Job description and person specification to Lorna.Wilson@creativelivingcentre.org.uk. The closing date for applications is 12th February 2025. Interviews will be held on the 17th February 2025.
For enquiries or for an informal discussion about the role, please contact us by emailing lorna.wilson@creativeliving.org.uk, or by calling 0161 696 7501 and asking to speak to one of the centre managers.
35 hours a week spread across five days
Salary: £27,500 (actual)
Closing Date: 12th February 2025
Contract terms: Fixed term contract until 30th June 2026 with a possibility of extension
The Living Well Team
The Bury Living Well Service is formed from an alliance of mental health services in the Bury area. The staff team is made up of staff from different backgrounds from Pennine Care Foundation Trust, Bury Involvement Group, the Creative Living Centre, and Early Break, and includes both clinical and non-clinical staff who employ a multi-disciplinary team approach to supporting individuals with significant mental health challenges in the community.
Job Summary
You will form part of the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) provision within the Bury Living Well Model as a member of the Creative Living Centre (CLC) Service Delivery Team. The Link Worker is responsible for case loading adults experiencing mental and emotional distress, offering person-centred and trauma informed support in the community both face to face and via telephone. Ensuring that service users are provided with both initial and ongoing support in either 1:1 or group sessions, as appropriate to their needs which are identified and reviewed on an ongoing basis. You will engage empathically with those you support, providing positive emotional and therapeutic support, through a collaborative approach which focuses on individual strengths rather than deficits, enabling and promoting autonomy and self-care. You will work alongside clinical staff and staff from other VCSE organisations to form multidisciplinary team approach to collaboratively support individuals in the community. You will be supported by the Living Well VCSE Coordinator, Operational Programme Manager and Clinical Lead. CPD opportunities are available and personal interests/skills will be supported to development and growth. This is a new post and there will be an opportunity to help shape and evolve it.
Key Responsibilities
- To integrate and work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team using own initiative, personal experience, and job-related training in deciding on the approach and interventions re quired when working with a person in delivering peer support.
- Work with a caseload of clients referred through the living well pathway
- Conduct thorough needs assessments with participants to develop personalised support and a wellbeing strategy through SMART action planning.
- Provide one-on-one guidance at initial appointments and follow-up appointments, as well as group sessions. Co-managing service users action plans and progress, supporting service users to identify their strengths, personal interests, and goals, to identify steps to improve mental health and wellbeing.
- To support service users to identify and overcome fears through a professional relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk and self-stigmatisation.
- To liaise with carers, other health professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to enable access to services that will allow for mental health and wellbeing improvement.
- Coordinate referrals to specialist external provision where appropriate. For example; further health provisions, debt advice, housing providers, training provisions and community provisions to explore ongoing support and to address barriers that are negatively impacting mental health and wellbeing.
- To accompany people to appointments/meetings which will allow them to address goals set out in their action plan that will progress their wellbeing strategy.
- Utilise a varied menu of engaging interventions which will address the most significant or pressing barriers that a participant is facing and empower the individual to address these barriers in through a measured and supported approach.
- Partner with outside organisations to compliment, not duplicate, existing support participants have received from other programs.
- Research local support and provisions to ensure appropriate signposting within the community. facilitating access to community groups and networks that enable people to participate within communities to maximise opportunities for taking on socially valued roles and positive identity
- Motivate and encourage participants to remain engaged in their goals.
- Discuss more complex cases with more senior staff and escalate support to the Service Delivery Manager where appropriate;
Application Process
Please send a CV and cover letter demonstrating how you meet the criteria on the below Job description and person specification to Lorna.Wilson@creativelivingcentre.org.uk. The closing date for applications is 12th February 2025. Interviews will be held on the 17th February 2025.
For enquiries or for an informal discussion about the role, please contact us by emailing lorna.wilson@creativeliving.org.uk, or by calling 0161 696 7501 and asking to speak to one of the centre managers.

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Join us to continue improving mental health – become a Creative Living Centre Trustee
The Creative Living Centre (‘CLC’) is looking to add to its Board of Trustees to deliver the charity’s dual core objectives:
- To promote the preservation of mental health and to assist in relieving persons suffering from emotional or mental distress requiring advice or treatment; and
- To promote the education of the public in mental health issues.
Who are the Creative Living Centre?
We are a forward-thinking mental health charity based in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, making a big difference to our members/service users. We are now recruiting for additional Trustees to join the Board. We’ve been around for more than 27 years, and we offer a wide range of services, including:
- Therapeutic activities including one-to-one emotional support, counselling, and complementary therapies.
- Workshops and courses on wellbeing such as challenging negative thoughts, healthy eating, motivation, stress management and confidence building.
- Peer mentoring providing goal-based support from people with lived experience.
- Creative activities such as arts, crafts, creative writing and singing.
- Physical exercise and wellbeing classes, including gardening, bike riding, boxercise and chair based exercise.
- Social events including warm hubs, breakfast club, the sunshine café or a free meal on Saturdays.
CLC Trustees
Our Trustee recruitment goal is to find good people who have an interest in mental health services and who would like to contribute to the development & continued success of the CLC.
We are looking for people who may be considering taking their first step in a Trustee role or may have been involved with trusteeships previously. In either case, we’ll provide you with the support and training you need to carry out the role. Please note, this is a volunteer role and is unpaid.
To find out more about the opportunity and what it involves, download our Trustee Recruitment Pack
For further information or an informal chat please email [email protected]
To apply please complete the Application Form in the Trustee Recruitment Pack and email to [email protected]