Lifestyle Support Worker

**We are currently hiring BANK Lifestyle Support Workers to join our inspiring and friendly Cornwall Community Rehabilitation Service Team, St Austell**

**Rethink Mental Illness are an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness.**

**JOIN THE TEAM**

Our Cornwall community service offeres support to people aged 18 years and over, who are living with a mental illness and live in Cornwall.

We work with people to identify their aims and goals and to create individual action plans to achieve these.

Our service offers one to one support in the community as well as a timetable staff led and peer support groups in various locations across the county.

**How you will make a difference as a Lifestyle Support Worker**:

- Establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users to raise aspirations to access opportunities and increase confidence.
- Directly support the therapy team to deliver effective and meaningful interventions.
- Support the development and delivery of Community Mental Health Services across the trust.
- Ensure that service user’s goals are integrated into the Trust’s care plan and are reviewed on a regular basis with care co-ordinators as necessary.
- To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- Be involved in recruitment processes, including supporting with interviews and local induction programmes.
- To work under the regular supervision of the team supervisor and guidance of other professional colleagues

**Essential skills and experience required for this role**:

- I have experience of providing support to people with a mental illness in a comparable role
- I have excellent administration, organisation and planning skills.
- ** A driving licence in compulsory. These are field-based roles covering East or West Cornwall. Access to own transport and the means to travel independently across the geographical area for business purposes is essential.**

**Who we are?**
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.

**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. You can read more about our progress here.

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Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:

- ** Commitment**:

- ** Equity**:

- ** Expertise**:

- ** Hope**:

- ** Openness**:

- ** Passion**:

- ** Understanding**?**

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