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LGBTQ+ Mental Health Worker

Elop - LGBT Mental Health and Wellbeing Charity

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Overview

This is an exciting job opportunity to join a dynamic and committed team, in a key frontline role working directly within our Heads-Out mental health services.
 £31,000 including Outer London Weighting.
Per year
Full time
(37 hours a week. You must be available to work 1 fixed evening a week and occasional other evening and/ or weekends, when required.)
Walthamstow/Leyton: 3-4 days a week with some home working until relocated to new premises when will be centre base

Key information

This service provides individualised mental health plans, crisis safety plans and support, mental wellbeing workshops, varied mental health and wellbeing support groups including for those seeking asylum; a trans and non-binary group; LGBTQ+ mental health group; and LGBTQ+ social connections and activities group.

About the role

Opportunities will include delivery of specialised interventions, taking direct referrals and helping to support and stabilise those at heightened risk and/ or living through mental health crisis, plus varied psychoeducational workshops and group programmes will further enable you to engage, empower and support participants to build confidence, develop skills, strategies, and achieve goals to improve, maintain and best manage mental health, increase mental wellbeing, and reduce and/ or prevent future crisis.

Please note: There will initially be both in-person office-based working with some remote home-based working required whilst we’re awaiting completion of building works and relocation to new premises.

Closing deadline for submission of application: 10.00am  Tuesday 16 June 2026.

Interviews will take place between 9.30 – 15.00 on: Friday 26 June 2026.

Requirements

This role presents opportunity to work innovatively and responsively, creating new, unique, and informative LGBTQ+ affirmative resources, providing crisis support, prevention and wellbeing initiatives; along with having a developmental role in upskilling and supervising sessional staff, trainees, interns and/ or volunteers.

For further details and to request an application pack please email only recruitment@elop.org with the position you are requesting a pack for in the subject line.

Please note: CV’s are not accepted.