About us
Sheffield Flourish supports people living with or affected by mental ill health to use their skills, ideas and talents to build the lives they wish to lead, through creative, mental-health friendly activities, coproduction and digital tools. We run open-access, free community enterprises offering involvement in writing, horticulture, theatre, art, music and football. On the digital side, we run four websites; the Sheffield Flourish hub has over 300 mental health stories, two web directories, the Sheffield Mental Health Guide and Sheffield Suicide Support and Prevention, and the My Toolkit platform, where you can plan activities to support your mental health.
We are looking for someone to join our team who shares our charity’s values:
- We stand for hope and meaningful change
- We engage critically and constructively with key issues in mental health
- We are realistic about the barriers and exclusions people living with mental health conditions face
- The diversity of our communities and individuals enrich and guide our work
- Lived experience of mental illness shapes and guides everything we do
About the role
Brunsmeer Awareness Football Club (BAFC) is a kind, inclusive and a mental health friendly football club. The Brunsmeer Awareness Football Coach will join our small and supportive team to deliver football activity for our men’s football group. The successful candidate will coach a weekly ‘turn up and play’ session and support players to participate and attend twice monthly matches in the Flourish League.
The role involves promotion of BAFC, liaising and encouraging new and regular players to attend, running training sessions in accordance with Flourish values, and supporting players to attend league matches.
Please note that attendees at BAFC have a history of mental ill-health, including severe mental health, and we are therefore looking for candidates with an understanding of mental health barriers and presenting needs.
As an organisation we’re committed to the following principles in recruitment to ensure we can effectively achieve our aim of providing equal opportunities:
- We recruit for potential, not perfection
- We are a values-based recruiter
- We value lived experience as an element of capability for a role
- We only utilise truly ‘essential’ criteria in recruitment
Please note, as a charity working with vulnerable adults and children, we will request a criminal records check as part of your employment. Disclosure or checks that reveal a conviction or any other information will not, in most cases, result in withdrawing a conditional offer of employment. However, we are unable to employ someone if they are on the DBS Barred List.
To apply, review the job description, ensure you meet the criteria on the person specification and complete the application, to be sent back by Tuesday 4th August 5pm.
We will let all applicants know our decision, although we can’t give individual feedback for applications.
We will invite successful applicants to submit a CV and attend a short, ‘getting to know you’ interview on Monday 10th August. This can be done in-person or virtually. Following this, a smaller number of people may be invited back in to do an activity.
If you need any help with filling out the form please email us on info@sheffieldflourish.co.uk, or call 0114 273 7009.
