Rethink Mental Illness
Wellbeing Practitioner
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Job Type
Permanent | Full Time (35 hours per week)
Location
Field Based (Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire (BNSSG))
Salary
£24,544.91
DBS
Enhanced DBS (Adults & Children) Required
About the Role
Help people build confidence, resilience and hope.
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live the life they want, regardless of the challenges they face. We're looking for a compassionate, trauma-informed and motivated Wellbeing Practitioner to join our innovative Sequoia Service and help transform support for people living with complex emotional needs and personality difficulties.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a service that's breaking down barriers, challenging stigma and ensuring people receive the right support at the right time. Working across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG), you'll play a vital role in helping people develop coping strategies, improve wellbeing and achieve meaningful recovery outcomes.
About the Role
As a Wellbeing Practitioner, you'll work as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering person-centred, psychologically informed support within the community. You'll facilitate psychoeducational groups, support peer-led activities, promote mental health awareness and help people build the skills and confidence needed to manage their wellbeing.
This is a field-based role, meaning you'll work from home, community venues and partner locations across BNSSG. You'll be provided with the equipment you need, including a laptop and smartphone, and travel expenses will be covered when required.
What you'll be doing
- Delivering high-quality, recovery-focused support to people with complex emotional needs and personality difficulties.
- Facilitating psychoeducational groups, wellbeing sessions and brief interventions.
- Supporting people to develop personalised wellbeing and recovery plans.
- Working collaboratively with Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP), community partners and Experts by Experience.
- Promoting greater understanding of personality difficulties and challenging mental health stigma.
- Contributing to service development through co-production, feedback and continuous improvement.
- Maintaining accurate records and supporting service monitoring and outcome reporting.
- Supporting volunteers and helping create a welcoming, inclusive service environment.
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What we're looking for
We're interested in hearing from people who are passionate about making a difference and who can bring empathy, creativity and resilience to the role.
You'll have:
- Experience supporting people experiencing mental health challenges, including complex emotional needs or personality difficulties.
- A person-centred, trauma-informed approach to support delivery.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Experience assessing needs, planning support and measuring outcomes.
- Good knowledge of safeguarding practices and risk management.
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office.
- A relevant Level 3 qualification in Health, Social Care or Community Mental Health (or equivalent), or be working towards one.
- The ability to travel flexibly across the BNSSG area.
- Lived experience of mental health challenges is welcomed and valued.
Ready to make an impact?
If you're passionate about improving mental health outcomes, thrive in collaborative environments and want to be part of a service helping people build brighter futures, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and join us in creating hope, changing lives and supporting recovery across BNSSG.
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.
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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.
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 of becoming 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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