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People and Culture

Mental Health Ireland employees over 100 people nationwide in a wide range of sectoral and administrative roles. Our roles range from internal employees working directly with and for Mental Health Ireland, to employees placed in partner organisations to help our partners realise goals that align with our Mission Vision and Values. Regardless of where our employees fulfil their role, they are part of our team and are valued as individuals promoting and supporting the work of our organisation. We take wellbeing seriously, and the wellbeing of our people while at work is our priority.

To empower wellbeing in our team, all Mental Health Ireland employees have immediate access to a number of benefits that include:

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working agreements where possible
• Supportive sick pay scheme
• Immediate access into pension scheme
• Transparent renumeration policies.

All Mental Health Ireland employees are paid salaries that are aligned to HSE salary scales and WRC uplifts are applied when awarded.

Career Opportunities

Internal roles

Working directly with and for Mental Health Ireland, our internal roles facilitate our achievement of strategic objectives across a number of workstreams:

• Development Officer Team
• Education and Training Team
• Fundraising and Corporate Partnership Team
• Finance Team
• Operations Team
• Communications Team
• Mental Health Promotion Team

You can view the work of these internal teams in our Annual Report

Recovery

Mental Health Ireland recruits nationally for Recovery Education roles helping to realise the goals and objectives of the National Framework for Recovery working closely with the National Office of Mental Health Engagement and Recovery with the HSE. Lived experience of Mental Health challenges and understanding of recovery is essential to these roles.

Recovery Colleges in Our Community

Other roles within the HSE

Mental Health Ireland recruits nationally for other projects operated by HSE Mental Health Services under specific funding arrangements. These include integrated exercise practitioner programmes, family peer supporters, service user representatives, research contributors and crisis café peer workers.

Affiliate Partnerships

As an organisation that values partnerships and working in collaboration to innovate and provide support locally, we also recruit for partner organisations who may not have the capacity to recruit directly. Currently we have employees working with Mindspace Mayo, Gateway Mental Health Project, Wexford Mental Health Association, and Cavan Monaghan Connects.

Community / Partnership page.

Recruitment Process

Our recruitment and selection process ensures fairness and equality of opportunity exists across all stages of recruitment. We do this by upholding ethical standards that are underpinned by policy application.

For more information on our recruitment process please read the following policies:

• Recruitment and Selection Policy
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Policy
• Conflict of Interest

Interviews

Mental Health Ireland conduct competency-based interviews. This means that all candidates shortlisted for interview are asked the same questions that are designed to evaluate the essential skills outlined in the specific job description and advertisement. Competency based interviewing ensures that unconscious bias is minimised in the interview process. Candidates are encouraged to read the essential skills criteria section of the job description prior to interviewing.

For the majority of roles, interviews are conducted by a panel of 3 interviewers. The relative line manager will chair the panel, a second Mental Health Ireland employee of suitable grade occupies the second seat and a guest interviewer from a partnership programme, or funding partnership occupies the third seat. All on the interview panel will have agreed the candidates brought forward for interview through a prior application shortlisting process which also uses a competency-based scoring matrix to ensure fair process has been applied for all applicants.