Mental Health Recovery Worker

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.

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.

About the Role

Rethink Mental Illness are hiring a Mental Health Support Worker to join our inspiring and friendly team at Romsey Avenue, Nuneaton. The role is part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that\’s why equity is one of our core values.

Shift Details

30 hours over 4 days – rota basis. Shifts are 8 hours and include sleep‑ins from 11 pm to 7 am. Shifts will include some weekend, bank holiday, morning, afternoon and evening work. Romsey Avenue is a residential service for adults with SMI with day staff and sleep‑in shifts 7 days per week. Our 13‑bedded service is based in the Midlands and supports adults with SMI. It is a residential service with staff 24 hours including staff sleep over.

About Rethink Mental Illness

We’re 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 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 it is important that we attract diverse people to come and work for us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we serve. 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 this 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 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; people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, a disability or hidden disability; and people from an ethnically diverse background – regardless of age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio‑economic status.

Anti‑Racist Commitment

We have an ambition to become a truly anti‑racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider. In our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health we have set out an 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.