Mental Health Alliance Lead – Tower Hamlets
Location: Agile working, with regular travel across Tower Hamlets and surrounding areas as required
Hours: Part-time (0.8FTE)
Contract: Fixed term contract
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe everyone severely affected by mental illness deserves the opportunity to live a fulfilling life. We're working alongside local communities, the NHS, councils, voluntary organisations and people with lived experience to transform mental health support across England.
We're looking for an experienced and collaborative Mental Health Alliance Lead to drive the next phase of development for the Tower Hamlets Mental Health Alliance.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape a growing alliance of voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations and partners, helping to create a more connected, equitable and sustainable mental health system for local people.
About the role
The Tower Hamlets Mental Health Alliance has secured investment from East London NHS Foundation Trust to strengthen alliance infrastructure and delivery. As Mental Health Alliance Lead, you will work with senior leaders, community organisations, commissioners and people with lived experience to ensure the alliance delivers on its ambitions.
You will act as the key facilitator and coordinator for the alliance, bringing partners together around shared objectives while providing leadership across governance, quality assurance, reporting, compliance and partnership development.
The role focuses on:
- Building and strengthening strategic partnerships
- Supporting co-production and community leadership
- Addressing health inequalities and advancing anti-racist practice
- Developing sustainable funding and infrastructure
- Supporting workforce sustainability across the sector
- Embedding lived experience throughout alliance activity
- Ensuring robust governance, reporting and performance management
This is a highly collaborative role where you'll influence across organisational boundaries and help create lasting change within the local mental health system.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the ongoing development of the Tower Hamlets Mental Health Alliance
- Building trusted relationships across VCFSE organisations, NHS partners, local authorities and funders
- Supporting alliance governance and contributing to or chairing partnership meetings, boards and forums
- Coordinating alliance delivery, mobilisation projects and new initiatives
- Managing reporting, compliance, quality assurance and due diligence requirements
- Producing meaningful performance and impact reports, using data to drive improvement
- Working closely with commissioners and strategic stakeholders
- Supporting the development of sustainable alliance structures and future opportunities
- Championing co-production and ensuring the voice of lived experience informs decision-making
- Promoting equity, inclusion and social justice in all aspects of alliance development
What we're looking for
We are looking for someone who has:
- Significant experience developing and maintaining strategic partnerships
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
- Experience of working across voluntary, community, health or public sector environments
- A commitment to community leadership, co-production and lived experience approaches
- Knowledge of inequalities affecting mental health outcomes and a strong commitment to anti-racist and inclusive practice
- Experience managing programmes, projects, contracts or partnership initiatives
- Strong analytical, reporting and performance management skills
- Experience presenting information and influencing at senior levels
- Excellent organisational and facilitation skills
- The ability to work collaboratively with diverse partners and communities
Most importantly, you'll be passionate about improving mental health outcomes and enabling organisations to work together more effectively for the people they serve.
Why join Rethink Mental Illness?
We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, valued and able to be themselves. You'll benefit from:
- An inclusive culture, with colleague-led staff networks for Disability & Neurodiversity, Race & Ethnicity, LGBTQIA+, Gender Equality and Menopause.
- Flexible working and 25 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with the option to buy or sell leave.
- Wellbeing support including our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions and Unmind.
- Learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career.
- Financial and family benefits including a contributory pension, enhanced family leave and travel schemes.
- Recognition and rewards including discounts, cashback offers and a Blue Light Card.
- Referral bonus where you can earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
Our commitment to inclusion
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We're also committed to becoming a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider supported by a multi-year equity, diversity and inclusion programme of work. For more information please view https://www.rethink.org/media/hdtjjy5b/revised-edi-plan-rethink.pdf
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and want everyone to have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and experience. If you need reasonable adjustments during recruitment or when in your role, please let us know and we will work with you to understand what support you need.
