Hope and Healing is a five-year project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. Through the project, we’re exploring new ways of putting community and relationships at the heart of mental health support.
The Communities and Development Partner will work alongside project partners as we develop and deliver community-based work in Wales, focusing on our partnership with Save the Children in Bettws, Newport. You’ll bring experience of and expertise in community-based work and be able to work directly with and be led by people in communities that face disadvantage and trauma, as well as professionals from different levels of the system. You'll be able to hold space for and respond to distress, both at individual and community level. You’ll also be able to build strong relationships with partners, including offering healthy challenge and meaningful collaboration.
We work with people experiencing challenges with their mental health, and with communities who want to create a greater sense of wellbeing in the places that they live. Through our projects, we work with thousands of people each year.
We believe that long-lasting wellbeing comes about by understanding how lives can be shaped by traumatic experiences, identifying people’s strengths and focussing on healing. We know we can’t ‘fix’ people, but we can walk alongside people and help where we can on their journey.
We try hard to make Platfform a great place to work, we live our values and mission in everything that we do.
