BANK - Mental Health Support Worker

Salary: £12.60 per hour

Location: Grimsby

This is a Bank, BANK Work - As and when required by the service vacancy that will close in 19 days at 23:59 BST.

Your role:

Rethink Mental Illness are an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We are looking for an experienced and passionate BANK Mental Health Support Worker to join our Field View service team, Grimsby. Field View Crisis accommodation offers 4 Crisis beds for people experiencing mental health problems or mental illness. It provides support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The maximum stay for Crisis beds is 7 nights. This service also offers emotional support to over 16’s through a helpline.

How You Will Make a Difference:

• Assist individuals with mental illness in rebuilding confidence and engaging in daily activities.
• Work closely with service users to help them achieve personal goals and access necessary support on their recovery journey.
• Provide key worker support, including one-on-one guidance and coordination with mental health agencies.
• Focus on individual needs, utilising communication, motivation, and coaching to help service users reach their goals.
• Build respectful, honest relationships while maintaining professional boundaries and adhering to the Rethink Mental Illness Code of Conduct.

Essential Experience, Skills Required For This Role:

• Transferable life/work experience to apply to this role.
• Experience of providing support to people with a mental illness; or experience of providing care and/or support services within another social care setting in either a paid or voluntary capacity.
• Good listener, empathetic, understanding, kind, patient and willing to learn.
• Demonstrate behaviours consistent with the values of the Charity.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion:

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background.

What will you receive?

• Plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day.
• Excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development, and a range of e-learning courses.
• Employer funded pension.
• Flexible working.
• Life assurance.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Eyecare vouchers up to £55 towards the cost of new glasses or lenses.
• Annual leave: 25 days rising to 30, plus bank holidays.
• Rethink day: 1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday.

Our colleagues say:

• “From the very start I was made to feel welcome and respected in my new team.”
• “Working for Rethink Mental Illness is the most rewarding job I could ask for.”
• “Without a shadow of a doubt, Rethink Mental Illness has been the best employer I’ve ever had.”
• “It feels very rewarding to be part of such a meaningful Organisation where everyone is valued and has the opportunity to make a difference.”