Mental Health Recovery Worker - BANK in Devon

Location: Capper Close, Sidmouth

Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives? We’re looking for an experienced and caring Mental Health Recovery Worker to join our dedicated team at Capper Close – a CQC Registered home supporting with severe and enduring mental health challenges. Devon Supported Housing, funded by Devon Partnership Trust, provides personalised, housing-related support to people with medium to high support needs who are moving on from hospital or residential settings. We work closely with each person to make sure the support they receive is right for them and helps them feel confident and supported in their next steps. Our recovery-focused approach encourages self-management and gives people choice and control over their own recovery journey. At Capper Close, we provide more than just accommodation – we offer support with daily living skills, personal care, finances, and rehabilitation, while encouraging engagement with the local community.

What will you do?

• Help individuals rebuild confidence and independence
• Support service users in achieving personal goals
• Provide one-to-one guidance and work alongside mental health agencies
• Build respectful, honest relationships while maintaining professional boundaries

What we’re looking for:

• Experience supporting people with mental illness or in a social care setting (paid or voluntary)
• Great listening skills, empathy, patience, and kindness
• Ability to work with digital systems (Microsoft applications, email, internet)
• A commitment to our values and willingness to learn

If you have transferable skills and a passion for helping others, we’d love to hear from you! Apply today and be part of a team that truly makes a difference.

Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?

At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:

• Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
• Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
• Recognition 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 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background- regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation: We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement. We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.