Community Connector Funding Opportunities across East London – Tower Hamlets, Newham and City & Hackney
(Reissue Date: 21/12/2021)
Funding duration: 5 years starting from 1st June 2022
Funding amount: See tables below for each location
Funding reference no.: See tables (column 1) below
Funding applications return deadline: 23:59 (11.59pm) on 6/2/2022
Introduction
On behalf of East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), Compass Wellbeing CIC is inviting local voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations to come forward to express an interest in providing Community Connector roles, as part of the ELFT’s ongoing Community Mental Health Transformation programme.
Successful applicants will be invited to work with East London Foundation NHS Trust to continue the development of the new model of care. Over the past two years ELFT have worked with a range of providers and partners in co-designing, testing and supporting the Community Connector role. The role is a core member of our Neighbourhood Mental Health teams in the three boroughs and has been essential in supporting the mental well-being of people with complex mental health and social needs in East London.
This opportunity is available for Tower Hamlets, Newham and City & Hackney for a five year period from 1st June 2022. ELFT are committed to developing these roles and are actively considering ways to increase the number of posts in future but this will be dependent on local and national funding opportunities. As such, there is a possibility of additional roles being created which could either be procured through a separate process, or as contract variations through this process.
Community Connector Funding Opportunities
We have allocated an indicative provision for each of the three boroughs as our final provision is yet to be finalised. We welcome applications for either specific Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (this can be one or more of the Neighbourhood Localities) or a lead provider model to deliver provision across a whole borough.
Providers will need to select and indicate clearly which Neighbourhood Locality, Borough and if applying for more than one Locality. For further guidance please refer to briefing pack. Due to localised nature of the role, we ask that providers apply for provision within footprints that they already have a presence.
Those wishing to make applications as partnership organisations will need to indicate this on the application form, declaring a lead partner.
The award panel for each borough will include representation from both the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams and/or the Transformation Programme Leads. Applications will be scored and each Borough will then interview the top scoring applications. We hope to award providers by end of March 2022 and exact dates will be communicated as soon as this is finalised.
The salaries for our existing roles are provided in the table below and as a guide we will be using this as an indicative salary.
Use the funding reference number(s) listed in columns 1 of the tables below for your funding application.
Key:
- CC: Community Connector(s)
- SCC: Senior Community Connector(s)
- YACC: Young Adult Community Connector
Tower Hamlets
Number of Community Connector roles: Total Whole Time Equivalent (WTE)*: 5.0
*We are currently reviewing opportunities to increase our Community Connector provision in the borough. Further opportunities will be shared in due course.
| Funding Ref. No. | Location(s)[Neighbourhood Team(s)] | No. of roles | Salary ranges | Funding Available per annum |
| TH LOT 1 | Bethnal Green | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| TH LOT 2 | Bow & Poplar | 2.0 WTE CCs | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £93,428 |
| TH LOT 3 | Isle of Dogs | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| TH LOT 4 | Stepney & Wapping | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| TH LOT 5 | All Teams[TH LOT 1 to 4) | 5.0 WTE CCs | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £233,570 |
Newham
Number of Community Connector roles: Total Whole Time Equivalent (WTE): 16.0
- 10 WTE – Based across the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams
- 0 WTE – Senior Community Connectors
- 0 WTE – Young Adult Community Connector
We are seeking applications for either a lead provider model or for specific Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.
| Funding Ref. No. | Location(s)[Neighbourhood Team(s)] | No. of roles | Salaries | Funding Available per annum |
| NH LOT 1 | Stratford | 1.0 WTE SCC2.0 WTE CCs | £28,977 per SCC;£25,932 per CC | £145,771 |
| NH LOT 2 | North East | 1.0 WTE SCC2.0 WTE CCs | £28,977 per SCC;£25,932 per CC | £145,771 |
| NH LOT 3 | North West | 1.0 WTE SCC2.0 WTE CCs | £28,977 per SCC;£25,932 per CC | £145,771 |
| NH LOT 4 | Central | 1.0 WTE SCC2.0 WTE CCs | £28,977 per SCC;£25,932 per CC | £145,771 |
| NH LOT 5 | South & Docklands | 1.0 WTE SCC2.0 WTE CCs | £28,977 per SCC;£25,932 per CC | £145,771 |
| NH LOT 6 | Across Newham | 1.0 WTE YACC | £25,932 per YACC | £44,204 |
| NH LOT 7 | All Teams[NH LOT 1 to 6) | 5.0 WTE SCCs10.0 WTE CCs
1.0 WTE YACC |
£28,977 per SCC;£25,932 per CC
£25,932 per YACC |
£773,059 |
City and Hackney
Number of Community Connector roles: Total Whole Time Equivalent (WTE): 8.0
We are seeking proposals that will ensure community connector coverage of each of the eight neighbourhoods in City & Hackney, and encourage applicants to consider how general support to the neighbourhoods might be combined with support to specific communities, population cohorts or specialist expertise such as employment and benefits advice. This may mean a model that included roles which support a neighbourhood part-time and a specific community or expertise part-time.
We are seeking applications for either a lead provider model or for specific Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.
| Funding Ref. No. | Location(s)[Neighbourhood Team(s)] | No. of roles | Salary ranges | Funding Available per annum |
| CH LOT 1 | Clissold Park | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 2 | Hackney Downs | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 3 | Hackney Marshes | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 4 | London Fields | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 5 | Shoreditch Park & The City | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 6 | Springfield Park | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 7 | Well Street Common | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 8 | Woodberry Wetlands | 1.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £46,714 |
| CH LOT 9 | All Teams[CH LOT 1 to 8) | 8.0 WTE CC | £28,000 to £33,500 per CC | £373,712 |