Rethink Mental Illness are an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness.
We are looking for Mental Health Recovery BANK Workers to join our experienced and friendly team at our Price of Peace Service in Hatherleigh.
The role may require you to work: shift, sleep ins, weekend work and bank holiday hours. Additional payments: you will receive additional payments for working anti-social hours, eg: evenings, weekends and bank holidays. You will also receive an additional payment per sleeping shift.
JOIN IN THE TEAM!
Devon Supported Housing, funded by Devon Partnership Trust, provides tailored housing support for people with low to medium needs transitioning from hospital or residential settings. We prioritise high-quality, individualised care and use a "Recovery" model to empower Service Users to manage their own recovery.
How You Will Make a Difference: As a Mental Health Recovery Worker, you will support individuals in regaining confidence and engaging in social and workplace activities. You'll work closely with service users to achieve their personal goals and access necessary support on their recovery journey.
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Provide key worker support, including one-on-one assistance and liaising with other mental health agencies.
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Focus on individual needs, using communication, motivation, and coaching to support users in achieving their goals.
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Build rapport based on respect and honesty, maintaining professional boundaries and adhering to the Rethink Mental Illness Code of Conduct.
Essential Experience and Skills:
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Transferable life/work experience relevant to this role.
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Good listening skills, empathy, understanding, kindness, patience, and a willingness to learn.
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Ability to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Charity's values.
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Experience in supporting people with mental illness or providing care/support services in a social care setting (paid or voluntary) is a plus.
If you're passionate about making a difference and have the skills and experience we're looking for, we encourage you to apply and join our team!
Caring for our people.
We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:
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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.
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Wellbeing support: our Wellbeing hub gives physical, emotional, and mental health support. We also have an Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments.
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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.
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Planning for the future: We have a contributory pension scheme.
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Structured Corporate Induction: Onboarding you into the Charity supporting your wellbeing along the way.
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£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, 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 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 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 ouranti-racist statement. We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in ourRace Equality Action Planwhich 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.
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If you have any questions about the position, please contact -recruitment@rethink.org
Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:
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Commitment
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Equity
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Expertise
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Hope
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Openness
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Passion
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Understanding?
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