Mental Health Recovery Worker

**Rethink Mental Illness is dedicated to helping those severely impacted by mental illness. We are hiring a Mental Health Recovery Worker to join our friendly and inspiring team at our Bristol Men’s Crisis House Service, Avonmouth.**

All our Accommodation services aim to support people to achieve maximum independence, and to move on to more independent accommodation. Bristol Men’s Crisis House service is an up to 14 night stay for men experiencing a Crisis.

1 x part-time position available - Rota pattern shifts - over a 7 day period including waking nights and weekends.

**JOIN THE TEAM**

**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.
- Provide key worker support, including one-on-one assistance and liaising with other mental health agencies.
- Focus on individual needs, using communication, motivation, and coaching to support users in achieving their goals.
- Build rapport based on respect and honesty, maintaining professional boundaries and adhering to the Rethink Mental Illness Code of Conduct.

**Essential Experience and Skills**:

- Transferable life/work experience relevant to this role.
- Good listening skills, 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 providing care/support services in a social care setting (paid or voluntary) is a plus.

**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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