Area Lead for Mid Essex

This is not your typical desk job.

Trust Links is the largest independent mental health charity in Essex, and we are
expanding our services across Mid and South Essex. We are recruiting an Area Lead for
Mid Essex to help shape and grow our Healthy Mind Hub a new, community-based
mental health service designed to support people to create connections, reduce
isolation, explore what’s available within their local communities, and offer a genuinely
human service that complements traditional pathways.

If you want to help shape Trust Links’ future in Mid Essex, and believe mental health
support should be person-centred, community-rooted and built around real relationships,
this role offers the space to lead in exactly that way.

About the Healthy Mind Hub

The Healthy Mind Hub provides meaningful, activity-based group support, peer support,
and multi-agency and community collaboration for adults experiencing mental health
challenges all centred around the Five Ways to Wellbeing.

We work closely with Primary Care, the MSE Recovery College, Mind Mental Health
Community Connectors, and a wide network of VCSE partners.

You’ll work closely with the Healthy Mind Hub Manager and senior colleagues across
Trust Links, but this is a hands-on leadership role, with genuine autonomy, trust and
support.

www.trustlinks.org                                                                               Charity No. 1092324

Who we’re looking for:

You don’t need to be a clinician, but you do need experience in
mental health or wellbeing services and the confidence to lead
people and partnerships.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

•  Care deeply about doing mental health support

differently

•  Are comfortable balancing leadership with delivery

•  Value peer support and lived experience

•  Can work flexibly, think creatively and respond to

changing needs

•  Want to see the impact of your work on a weekly basis

Line management experience is desirable, but values, mindset and potential matter just
as much.

Why Trust Links?

•  A values-led VCSE organisation, not a corporate system

•  Flexibility, trust and supportive management

•  Strong emphasis on development and progression

•  Work that genuinely makes a difference

People stay at Trust Links because the work means something.

www.trustlinks.org                                                                               Charity No. 1092324