Essex council hiring mental health officer due to high suicide rate

A assembly is hiring a caller intelligence wellness serviceman to assistance code above-average termination rates.

Essex County Council is offering £37,500 for a nationalist intelligence wellness and termination prevention officer.

The palmy applicant would enactment successful the northbound eastbound of the county, wherever successful Tendring and Colchester, the termination complaint was importantly supra the England average.

Coroners person antecedently criticised intelligence wellness services successful the county.

The occupation advertisement read: "Suicide rates successful immoderate parts of Essex person historically been higher than the nationalist average, truthful this relation presents a existent accidental for the close campaigner to marque a difference."

According to data from the Office for National Statistics, 13.8 radical for each 100,000 successful Tendring took their beingness each twelvemonth betwixt 2019-2021, and 15 per 100,000 successful Colchester.

The mean fig for England was 10.6 during that period.

The job advert said the campaigner would enactment with the North East Essex Suicide Prevention Programme, moving with the police, hospitals and GPs - including starring connected activities and projects - to assistance amended collaboration.

The assembly did not enactment connected "appropriate referrals" by the NHS, behaviour "required assessments" portion she was a intelligence wellness inpatient and did not name a societal idiosyncratic until she was discharged, Ms Hayes said.

Essex, successful response, said it implemented further grooming and changed immoderate of its appraisal policies.