BANK Mental Health Recovery Worker

6 days ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Rethink Mental Illness Full time

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

We are hiring BANK Support Workers to join our team at Grove Court Residential Care Home. 

Grove Court is a 24 hour Residential Care Home, with 12 registered beds. Grove Court provides support to male and female clients who are affected by severe mental illness.

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. 

Overview of the role purpose 

As a Bank Support 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. You will work flexibly – as and when required by the service.

Some of the essential skills and experience required for this role include:

  • Experience of working within a Support Worker role
  • I have transferable life/work experience to apply to 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.

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? Are you a good listener, empathetic, understanding, kind, patient and willing to learn? we would love to hear from you. 

We are looking for people who live and breathe our Rethink Mental Illness’ values of Understanding, Expertise, Commitment, Hope, Passion and Openness.

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 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 our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which 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.

Please see further details on our Website

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