Mental Health Support Worker

Job title:

Mental Health Support Worker

Company

Rethink Mental Illness

Job description

Rethink Mental Illness are hiring Mental Health Support Workers to join our inspiring and friendly teams at Capper Close, Sidmouth & Stewart Gardens, Dawlish.Imagine being 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.Devon Supported Housing Overview:Devon Supported Housing, funded by Devon Partnership Trust, provides individualised housing-related support to individuals with medium to high support needs transitioning from hospital or residential settings. We work closely with service users to ensure they receive the highest quality of support that fits their needs. Our “Recovery” model promotes self-management and personal control over their recovery journey.How I Will Make a Difference:

• Provide one-on-one key worker support, coordinating with mental health agencies on behalf of service users.
• Focus on the service user’s needs, employing communication, motivation, and coaching to help them achieve their goals.
• Build respectful, honest relationships within professional boundaries, adhering to the Rethink Mental Illness Code of Conduct.
• Encourage service users to explore local services and facilitate access to alternative services when needed.
• Support service users in achieving their goals through familiarity with their individual Care/Recovery Plans.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Transferable life/work experience relevant to this role.
• Strong listening, empathy, understanding, kindness, patience, and a willingness to learn.
• Ability to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Charity’s values.
• Experience in supporting people with mental illness or in a similar social care setting, either in a paid or voluntary capacity.

We are looking for individuals who embody our values 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?Caring for our people.We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:

• PULSE – our recognition, rewards, wellbeing, and benefits platform. Providing access to thousands of discounts and benefits including cashback; reloadable cards; savings etc. As well as being able to thank colleagues and nominate them for awards.
• Wellbeing support: our Wellbeing hub gives physical, emotional, and mental health support. We also have an Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments.
• Taking time for you: We have generous annual leave, starting at 25 rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays (some roles may require working on bank holidays) as well as your birthday off. We also offer the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave.
• Planning for the future: We have a contributory pension scheme.
• Structured Corporate Induction: Onboarding you into the Charity supporting your wellbeing along the way.
• £300 when you introduce a Friend: receive up to £300 when you introduce a friend or family member.

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, InclusionDiversity 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 for our Black, Asian and minority ethnic and our 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.Becoming a truly anti-racist organisationWe 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 . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our which demonstrate our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and (asexual) (LGBTQIA+), people with a disability, and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.Please see further details on ourYou can also follow us on / / and to find out more about the work we do!If you have any questions about the position, please contact –Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:

• Commitment
• Equity
• Expertise
• Hope
• Openness
• Passion
• Understanding​

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Expected salary

£22004 per year

Location

Dawlish, Devon

Job date

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 03:58:33 GMT

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