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 of 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.
* 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 it’s 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.
We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who are 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.
If you have any questions about the position, please contact recruitment@rethink.org
Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:
* Commitment
* Equity
* Expertise
* Hope
* Openness
* Passion
* Understanding
To see our full list of vacancies click here!
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