Lifestyle Support Worker

We are currently hiring BANK Lifestyle Support Workers to join our inspiring and friendly Cornwall Community Rehabilitation Service Team, St Austell. Rethink Mental Illness is an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness.

Our Cornwall community service offers support to people aged 18 years and over, who are living with a mental illness and live in Cornwall. We work with people to identify their aims and goals and to create individual action plans to achieve these. Our service offers one-to-one support in the community as well as a timetable of staff-led and peer support groups in various locations across the county.

How you will make a difference as a Lifestyle Support Worker:

• Establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users to raise aspirations to access opportunities and increase confidence.
• Directly support the therapy team to deliver effective and meaningful interventions.
• Support the development and delivery of Community Mental Health Services across the trust.
• Ensure that service user’s goals are integrated into the Trust’s care plan and are reviewed on a regular basis with care co-ordinators as necessary.
• Attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
• Be involved in recruitment processes, including supporting with interviews and local induction programmes.
• Work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance of other professional colleagues.

Essential skills and experience required for this role:

• Experience of providing support to people with a mental illness in a comparable role.
• Excellent administration, organisation and planning skills.
• Competent in the use of IT systems including Microsoft applications, email and internet.
• A driving licence is compulsory.
• Access to own transport and the means to travel independently across the geographical area for business purposes is essential.

We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: “A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through inclusiveness and belonging. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. We 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.

We have an ambition of becoming a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider. 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.

You can read more about our progress on our website.