Being a Community Champion means support and connection from your peers, a chance to learn and grow your skills, and have fun!
LGBT Health and Wellbeing are delighted to be recruiting for See Me Proud Community Champions and look forward to welcoming you to the See Me and LGBT Health and Wellbeing communities. We are excited to support you to take action against stigma and discrimination in a variety of ways, ensuring mental health spaces are safe, understanding, and validating of LGBT people and their unique experiences.
You’ll be trained in community development and participative practice, and gain knowledge on how to design and run anti-stigma projects. By being involved as a LGBT Community Champion you’ll attend a variety of events and meet lots of new people. You’ll also have the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping to change communities’ attitudes and behaviours towards LGBT people with mental health challenges as part of our ‘Movement for Change’.
Types of activity you might get involved in:
- Encouraging and inspiring others to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination against LGBT people with experience of mental health difficulties
- Attending a range of networking events, Cross Party Groups, staff networks, and undertaking promotional work to contribute to discussions around how services can best meet the needs of LGBT people.
- Highlight and further promote the key recommendations of the LGBT Health’s National Conversational on LGBT Mental Health (2019) which looked at barriers and enablers for LGBT people engaging with mainstream mental health services.
- Planning and running community events as part of a group or network in association with LGBT Health and Wellbeing and See Me.
- Identifying the needs of people in your community and developing community projects that help others to build capacity and take action.
- Developing and sharing See Me/See Me Proud resources & training
N.B – these are just an idea of what opportunities you could be involved in, you can choose ones that are right for you and the way you want to get involved. There may also be additional opportunities.
We will be running two online information sessions where you can learn more about the role, and ask any questions. These will be on the 17th February 1pm-3pm and the 23rd February 6pm-8pm. Come along to hear more about LGBT Health and Wellbeing and See Me Scotland and what being a Champion involves. If you aren’t able to come to an information session, you can still get in touch with Sophie for any questions or any support with the application process.
Register for the session on the 17th here or for the session on the 23rd here
Application pack – download the role description and application form
To discuss the role further, or if you have any questions about the application form and role description, please email Sophie on sophie@lgbthealth.org.uk or call 0775 411 4045
