The Manchester (M) Thrive Hub

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

Role Description

The M Thrive Hub assistant practitioner roles will include acting as enablers and systems supporters; providing advice, information, and signposting to well-being 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work to map and develop close working relationships with the whole range of local services in their area to enable an integrated community response to meet the well-being needs of children, young people, families, and carers.
• Work alongside all stakeholders, including children, young people, and carers.
• Help the M Thrive team navigate young people, parents, and carers who have not been accepted by 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 and have the ability to have a positive behavior change with them 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’, managing their expectations sensitively, and engaging them positively when the message needs to be understood and accepted to promote engagement.