Mental Health Recovery Worker

This is a Permanent, 21 hours - part time vacancy that will close in 18 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 a Mental Health Support Worker to join their passionate and friendly team at our Price of Peace Service in Hatherleigh. Working pattern – Rota Basis – Working three x 8 hour shifts per week. Two of these shifts will be 3pm-11pm, followed by two sleep shifts, 11pm-8am.

Overview Of a Mental Health Support Worker Role

As a Mental Health Support Worker, you will offer people affected by mental illness the support and help they need to regain their confidence and get involved in everyday social and workplace activities. You will be working closely with service users to achieve their own personal goals and access all the support they need on their recovery journey.

Essential Skills And Experience Required

• Transferable Life/Work Experience: You bring valuable experiences from your personal or professional life that can be applied to this role.
• Listening and Empathy: You are a good listener, empathetic, understanding, kind, patient, and willing to learn.
• Values Alignment: You can demonstrate behaviours consistent with the values of our Charity, including hope, understanding, expertise, equity, commitment, passion, and openness.

Are you a good listener, empathetic, understanding, kind, patient and willing to learn? In your application, we would love to hear how you would bring these skills to life in your role and why working for a Mental Health charity is for you?

Who are we?

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.”

It is an exciting time to join our growing charity. We are on a transformation journey, one that supports the delivery of the organisation strategy – delivering Communities that Care. Supporting employees, managers and leaders through this change is a key priority for the People function. Just like its key that we attract diverse people to come and work for us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. 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. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

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 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.

What will you receive?

• You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day.
• In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development, and a range of e-learning courses.
• You will also receive:

• Employer funded pension
• Flexible working
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Eyecare vouchers up to £55 towards the cost of new glasses or lenses
• Training opportunities
• 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. In the short time I have been working with Rethink Mental Illness as a service administrator I have been able to contribute ideas and make meaningful change, and I appreciate that Rethink allows me to direct my own role development and help me build on the skills I want to work on.”
• “Working for Rethink Mental Illness is the most rewarding job I could ask for. As a Peer and Volunteer Co-ordinator I get to work with a huge variety of people, with a range of skills and support them to incorporate those skills into their volunteering roles. I am always looking for gaps that need filling and creating new and exciting opportunities that will benefit our service, mental health in the community, but most importantly the people giving up their time to help.”
• “I’ve previously worked in a large corporate environment, in the criminal justice sector and other charities. Without a shadow of a doubt, Rethink Mental Illness has been the best employer I’ve ever had. They care about their staff. Its great working with like-minded people and knowing that you are making a real difference to people’s lives.”
• “It feels very rewarding to be part of such a meaningful Organisation where everyone is valued and has the opportunity to make a difference.”

Please be mindful that we may need to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications, we therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible.