Bank Mental Health Recovery Worker

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

**We are hiring BANK Mental Health Recovery Workers to join our **North Devon Supported Living** Service, Barnstaple & Bideford.**

Weekdays only - No weekend work - Working hours between 9am - 5pm.

**If you are looking to work more flexibly BANK work could be ideal for you - you may be retired, looking to do additional shifts around your current role or would like to work around your family commitments.**

North Devon Supported Living Services & Community Outreach are a mental health recovery service. We offer supported living services and community outreach services to those affected by severe mental illness and provide recovery support to people with low to medium support needs, leaving a hospital or residential setting. We work closely with Service Users to ensure the support they receive is of the highest quality and is right for them. Where possible, we try to provide support at a time which best suits the needs of our Service Users. Rethink uses a “Recovery” model of support, encouraging people to manage and control their own recovery as much as possible.

**As a Mental Health Recovery Worker** **you will**: offer people affected by mental illness the support and help they need to regain their confidence and get involved in everyday social and workplace activities. You will be working closely with service users to achieve their own personal goals and access all the support they need on their recovery journey.

**I will work with the following people and teams**
- Service Users
- Bank Support Workers / Support Workers
- Volunteers
- Team Leaders
- Service Manager

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

- I am a good listener, empathetic, understanding, kind, patient and willing to learn
- I can demonstrate behaviours consistent with the values of the Charity.

Please see further details on our Website

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Don’t meet all requirements?

If the role sounds exciting to you but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t exactly match every single requirement, we would still encourage you to apply, you may be just the right person for our position

**Caring for our people.**

**We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include**:

- Wellbeing support: We also have an Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments
- Taking time for you: You are entitled to holiday pay in accordance with the Working Time Regulations.
- Planning for the future: We have a contributory pension scheme. You are automatically enrolled into our pension when you meet the earnings threshold
- £300 when you introduce a Friend: receive up to £300 when you introduce a friend or family member

**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 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.

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