The Manchester (M) Thrive Hub

The Manchester (M) Thrive Hub is a single point of entry, a front door, to Manchester’s Emotional Wellbeing Services. The M Thrive Hub Practitioners will work within one of the three Manchester locality M Thrive Hubs (North, Central, South).

The M Thrive Hub Pathfinder Roles

The M Thrive Hub Pathfinder roles will include acting as enablers and systems supporters; providing advice, information, and signposting to wellbeing services. The key aim of the M-Thrive strategy is to ensure that children, young people, and carers are able to Thrive in their local communities.

Responsibilities

• Work to map and develop close working relationships with the whole range of local services in their area.
• Enable an integrated community response to meet the wellbeing needs of children, young people, families, and carers.
• Work along side all stakeholders, including children, young people, and carers.
• Help M Thrive team navigate young people, parents, and carers who have not been accepted by your local emotional health and wellbeing services, but who need some wellbeing or support services.
• Hold complex and high-level conversations with young people and families.
• Have the ability to have a positive behavior change with them in order for them to be able to access a community neighborhood offer.
• Have challenging conversations with young people and families that may arise from the referral being at the ‘wrong front door’.
• Manage their expectations in a sensitive and hold potential contentious conversations, to engage them in a positive manner when the message needs to be understood and accepted to promote engagement.