Restore - working for mental health
Employment and Recovery Coach - Full Time
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Recovery Employment and Recovery Coach
Accountable to: Team Leader
The role provides support to people with mental health challenges who are seeking employment, volunteering, or further training.
You will be largely based at Manzil Way in Oxford with 2 mornings per week spent at the Elder Stubbs Recovery Group in the Florence Park area, plus additional, in-county travel when required.
In this role, you will be supporting and empowering people with mental health challenges to set goals, overcome barriers, and find their next steps in recovery, employment, or other vocational activities.
You will:
- Work as a team with Restore recovery workers and other coaching colleagues to deliver a quality, person-centred, goal-focused programme driven by regular reviews, focusing on strength and resilience.
- Provide one-to-one sessions using the GROW model (agreed approaches).
- Assist people to improve their employability, creating CVs, job search, make applications, and prepare for interviews.
- Support individuals whose jobs may be at risk due to the effects of their poor mental health to retain their employment.
- Foster collaborative work with other employment agencies, including - DWP, Connect to Work, Keystone Hub IPS workers, and other relevant agencies and local community groups.
- Work in partnership with individuals, families, carers, and community networks, to co-produce new opportunities and initiatives.
- Ensure all practice is safe, trauma-informed, and rooted in dignity, empowerment, and confidentiality.
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Essential Criteria:
- Positive attitude, resilience, and commitment to person-centred, recovery-oriented mental health support.
- Experience delivering one-to-one support using culturally responsive and inclusive approaches that are rooted in a strengths-focused model of change.
- Ability to plan, prioritize, and organize work in a flexible, person-centred way.
- Good communication skills (written, verbal, and motivational).
- IT literacy (proficient in Word, email, and data input).
- Willingness and ability to travel within Restore’s service area across Oxfordshire.
- Ability to build trust and engagement, and work collaboratively with individuals to co-design goals and recovery plans, with a commitment to anti-discriminatory, trauma-informed, and culturally safe practice.
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All the above skills, knowledge, experience, and behaviours will be tested at application and interview including the desirables. Click ‘Apply’ to download the full job spec.
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Closing date - Midnight 11th October 2026
Interview date - Monday 21st October 2026 (face to face at Manzil Way office)
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