BANK - Mental Health Support Worker

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

We are looking for an experienced and passionate BANK Mental Health Recovery Worker to work as part of our Swindon Services Bath Road.

Our Bath Road service is a CQC Registered home that provides long term accommodation to up to ten people with severe and enduring mental health problems. Bath Road provides support with daily living skills personal care finances and rehabilitation as well as encouragement to engage with the local community.

How you will make a difference:
As a BANK Mental Health Recovery Worker youll assist individuals with mental illness in rebuilding confidence and engaging in daily activities. Youll work closely with service users to help them achieve personal goals and access necessary support on their recovery journey.

• Provide key worker support including one-on-one guidance and coordination with mental health agencies.
• Focus on individual needs utilising communication motivation and coaching to help service users reach their goals.
• Build respectful honest relationships while maintaining professional boundaries and adhering to the Rethink Mental Illness Code of Conduct.

Essential experience skills required for this role:

• I have transferable life/work experience to apply to this role.
• Experience of providing support to people with a mental illness; or experience of providing care and/or support services within another social care setting in either a paid or voluntary capacity.
• I am a good listener empathetic understanding kind patient and willing to learn
• I can demonstrate behaviours consistent with the values of the Charity.
• Experience of providing support to people with a mental illness; or experience of providing care and/or support services within another social care setting in either a paid or voluntary capacity.
• Experience of working with digital systems including Microsoft applications email and internet.

Who are we

Were 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 were 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 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 statusand 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 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 have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in ourRace Equality Action Planwhich demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
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Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:

• Commitment
• Equity
• Expertise
• Hope
• Openness
• Passion
• Understanding