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Kooth

Effective personalised digital mental health care platform

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201-500 employees
  • Healthcare
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Mental health
  • Wellbeing
  • MedTech
Paddington, London, UK

Company mission

Kooth's mission is to create easy to access online mental health services that work alongside you to provide compassionate and effective support.

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10% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Kooth offers free at the point of access mental health care to more than 5.4 million people via NHS commissioners, corporates, social workers, GPs and schools across the UK. It provides a mix of community-created content, forum sessions with other community members, and one-to-one counselling via online chat. All users sign up anonymously for the free-of-charge service and there's no digital tracking of session IP addresses. The aim is to provide a safe space where each person can get the support they need.

As a pioneer in online counselling, Kooth brings together emerging technologies with innovation in clinical practice and evaluation to create new models of care in mental health. The 2020-hired CEO Tim Barker’s data science experience will prove very useful in exploring whether there are patterns in its historic dataset that can be helpful to future users.

Kooth’s 2020 IPO came at a time when London listings were sparse. A testament to the important contribution its services can make at a time when businesses are becoming more conscious of the need to foster well-being in their employees and in the wider world. This is further exemplified by the 33% soar in share prices after a contract was announced to serve 13 to 25-year-olds in California.

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Benefits

  • 28 days (plus Public Holidays)
  • Yearly professional training programmes structured around you
  • Pension contributions
  • Healthshield Care plan
  • EAP programme, 24/7 Telephone Mental Health & GP
  • Annual company share option awards
  • Life Assurance (up to four times the amount of your annual salary)
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Incapacity Income Protection
  • Remote Working

Company values

  • Alongside you - We are alongside you, warm, welcoming and companionable
  • Flexible - We offer choice because you are in control of what you need
  • Compassionate - We don’t judge. We listen, counsel and support
  • Committed - No matter what support you need, we’re here to help
  • Safe - We are a safe space for users and we are serious about safeguarding

Leadership

Tim Barker

(CEO, not founder)

Worked previously as the CEO at DataSift and in Platform and Go-to-Market strategy at Meltwater after the company's acquisition of DataSift. Became Kooth's CEO in 2020.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kooth

  • LGBTQIA+ Inform, Support, Change & Celebrate campaign