Policy and Campaigns Assistant

About the role

We won’t give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect. We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

The Policy and Campaigns Assistant is responsible for providing administrative and assistant level support for the Policy and Campaigns team. You will be the first port of call for the team, and field enquiries from colleagues, members of the public and other organisations. Alongside this, you will carry out tasks across a range of policy issues and play a part in Mind’s external-facing campaigns to improve services and support for people with mental health problems.
You will work across a range of policy issues relating to mental health and play a part in Mind’s influencing work with the outcome of improving the lives and experiencing of people with mental health problems. To achieve this, you will work with people from all departments within Mind, with members of the public, and with people with experience of mental health problems.
Your key responsibilities will consist of providing support for the work of the wider team, ensuring people with lived experience of mental health are involved in all aspects of the team's work, by organising activities such as surveys, focus groups and interviews and developing and maintaining relevant databases and other contact management systems.

This position will initially, in line with current and potentially future guidance, be based from home. Post lockdown this role will retain some flexibility but post holders will be expected to be in the office a minimum of two days thereafter (or more, depending on the arrangements of your team)

Equality & Diversity

We value the power of diversity. We embrace the different perspectives that each of us bring. We are creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is appreciated for being authentic and bringing their whole selves to work regardless of race, gender, age, religion, identity and experience.

We are committed to becoming truly anti-racist in everything we do and ensuring that all our employees are treated fairly and equitably at work and promoting equity in physical and mental health for all.

Our strategy has becoming an anti-racist organisation right at the centre of our work. For more information please visit click on the button below.

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More details and how to apply

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Job Description

A little more about Mind

Our goals:

• Supporting people likely to develop mental health problems, to stay well
• Empowering people who experience a mental health problem to make informed choices about how they live and recover
• Ensuring people get the right services and support at the right time to help their recovery and enable them to live with their mental health problem
• Opening the doors to people with experience of mental health problems participating fully in society
• Gaining equality of treatment for people who experience both mental health and other forms of discrimination

Our values underpin everything we do. They are:

• Open: We reach out to anyone who needs us.
• Together: We're stronger in partnership.
• Responsive: We listen, we act.
• Independent: We speak out fearlessly.
• Unstoppable: We never give up.

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