Employment and Recovery Coach - Restore
Are you passionate about mental health recovery and social inclusion? Join Restore’s Inspiring Team!
Salary: £27,651 per annum
Location: Based at Manzil Way, regular visits to Restore Hubs
Hours: 35 hours per week, usual hours 9am-4.30pm, with occasional evenings/weekends
Make a Real Difference
For almost 50 years, Restore has supported Oxfordshire’s communities to flourish, transforming lives as a leading, local mental health charity. Join us and help shape brighter futures, giving hope and confidence to those who need it most. You’ll be valued in a workplace that celebrates diversity, mutual respect, and shared achievement.
As an Employment and Recovery Coach, you will be supporting and empowering people with mental health challenges to set goals, overcome barriers, and find their next steps in recovery, employment or other vocational activities.
About The Role
- Work as a team with Restore recovery workers and other coaching colleagues to deliver a quality, person-centred, goal-focused programme
- Provide one to one sessions using the GROW model
- Assist people to improve their employability, creating CVs, job search, make applications, and prepare for interviews
- Support individuals whose jobs may be at risk due to the effects of their poor mental health to retain their employment
- Foster collaborative work with other employment agencies
- Work in partnership with individuals, families, carers, and community networks, to co-produce new opportunities and initiatives
- Ensure all practice is safe, trauma-informed, and rooted in dignity, empowerment, and confidentiality
Successful applicants should be able to demonstrate their experience against the essential criteria below.
Essential Criteria
- Positive attitude, resilience, and commitment to person-centred, recovery-oriented mental health support.
- Experience delivering one-to-one support using culturally responsive and inclusive approaches that are rooted in a strengths focused model of change.
- Ability to plan, prioritise, and organise work in a flexible, person-centred way.
- Good communication skills (written, verbal and motivational).
- IT literacy (proficient in Word, email, and data input).
- Willingness and ability to travel within Restore’s service area across Oxfordshire.
- Ability to build trust and engagement, and work collaboratively with individuals to co-design goals and recovery plans, with a commitment to anti-discriminatory, trauma-informed, and culturally safe practice.
All the above skills, knowledge, experience, and behaviours will be tested at application and interview including the desirables.
Closing & Interview Dates
- Closing date - Midnight 11th October 2026
- Interview date - Monday 21st October 2026 (face to face at Manzil Way office)
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Employment and Recovery Coach - Full Time in Oxford employer: Restore - working for mental health
Restore is an exceptional employer, dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive work culture that prioritises mental health recovery. Located in Oxford, we offer our Mental Health Recovery Workers the opportunity to engage in meaningful work while benefiting from professional development and training in a vibrant community setting. Our commitment to employee growth, combined with a focus on collaboration and creativity, makes Restore a rewarding place to build a career in mental health support.
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