Rethink Mental Illness
Mental Health Recovery Worker
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Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Role: Part-time, 21 hours per week, 3 days per week. (Full-time equivalent salary - £24,545 per annum)
The Role
- 2 days based in Stroud and 1 day based in Gloucester (This is potentially flexible)
Working across three sites in Stroud, this role will require visiting people in their homes, as well as Eagle Mill Close where the office is situated.
This role requires a Full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle.
Our Stroud service provides high-quality, independent housing and tailored support for people with mental health needs. We are dedicated to helping individuals live as independently as possible, empowering them to build confidence, develop life skills, and achieve the goals that matter most to them.
Through person-centred support, we work closely with tenants to create personalised support plans that promote wellbeing, independence, and social inclusion. Our dedicated team provides emotional support, practical guidance, and encouragement with day-to-day living, helping individuals manage their tenancy, maintain their health and wellbeing, access community resources, and develop the skills needed for independent living.
We are committed to creating a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment where people feel respected, valued, and able to have their voices heard. By working collaboratively with healthcare professionals, local services, and other partner agencies, we ensure that tenants receive coordinated support that reflects their individual needs, strengths, and aspirations. Our aim is to help people build meaningful, fulfilling lives within their communities and achieve positive, lasting outcomes.
What I Will Do and Achieve
Are you passionate about empowering people to live independently and achieve their goals? Working with an allocated group of tenants, you’ll support individuals experiencing mental ill health to promote independence and sustain tenancies. You’ll assess needs and risks, working in a person-centred, recovery-focused way to help people build confidence and thrive in the community.
- Provide key worker support, including one-to-one assistance and liaising with mental health agencies.
- Use communication, motivation, and coaching to help individuals achieve personal goals.
- Build trust and rapport based on respect and honesty, maintaining professional boundaries and following the Rethink Mental Illness Code of Conduct.
- Support day-to-day service operations, including property re-lets, processing referrals, and ensuring health and safety across schemes.
- Encourage engagement in social and workplace activities, helping individuals regain confidence and independence.
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Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience supporting people with mental illness in a social care setting
- Good listening skills, empathy, understanding, kindness, patience, and a willingness to learn.
- Ability to clearly demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Charity's values.
- Excellent administration, organisation and planning skills.
- Competent in the use of IT systems including Microsoft applications, email and internet.
If you’re passionate about empowering individuals, reducing stigma, and improving mental health outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.
Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:
- Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
- Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
- Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform.
- Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days.
- Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities.
- Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes.
- Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
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Diversity is important to us, and we appreciate difference through 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 this 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.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued, and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability, and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view, or socio-economic status.
Becoming a Truly Anti-Racist Organisation
We have an ambition to 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.
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