Job Description

Join Our Team as a Mental Health Recovery Worker
Location: Barnstaple – Gloster Road
Working hours: Part-time role available – Minimum of 7 hours per week – With Additional Hours/Shifts available for cover – Service Operating hours – 9am - 5pm – Monday to Friday
Full-time salary equivalent: £24,545 per annum (This is pro-rated for part-time hours)
Enhanced Payments: 1.5 x hourly rate on a Bank Holiday

Gloster Road and Ashleigh Road are supported living services commissioned by Devon Partnership Trust NHS and Devon County Council. We provide recovery focused mental health support, helping adults build independence with the aim of moving on within two years.
Our team of Mental Health Recovery Workers offers 1:1 support, group activities, and community outings. We also provide ongoing help through our Community Outreach team, supporting clients in their own homes with gradually reducing support as needs change. Both services work closely together to ensure a consistent, person centred approach.
Our North Devon Community Outreach team provides mental health support to individuals living in their own homes across the community. Commissioned by Devon Partnership Trust NHS and Devon County Council, we offer weekly, recovery focused support tailored to each person’s needs. Our Mental Health Recovery Workers work collaboratively with clients to build confidence, independence, and wellbeing.

What I will do and achieve as a Mental Health Recovery Worker:
Are you passionate about empowering people to live independently and achieve their goals? Working within an experienced team you will support individuals experiencing mental ill health to promote independence. You’ll assess needs and risks, working in a person-centred, recovery-focused way to help people build confidence and thrive in the community.

How You Will Make a Difference
• 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.
• Encourage engagement in social and workplace activities, helping individuals regain confidence and independence.

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 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.

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Why join Rethink Mental Illness?

We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, valued and able to be themselves. You'll benefit from:
• An inclusive culture, with colleague-led staff networks for Disability & Neurodiversity, Race & Ethnicity, LGBTQIA+, Gender Equality and Menopause.
• Flexible working and 25 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with the option to buy or sell leave.
• Wellbeing support including our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions and Unmind.
• Learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career.
• Financial and family benefits including a contributory pension, enhanced family leave and travel schemes.
• Recognition and rewards including discounts, cashback offers and a Blue Light Card.
• Referral bonus where you can earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.

Our commitment to inclusion
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We're also committed to becoming a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider supported by a multi-year equity, diversity and inclusion programme of work. For more information please view https://www.rethink.org/media/hdtjjy5b/revised-edi-plan-rethink.pdf

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and want everyone to have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and experience. If you need reasonable adjustments during recruitment or when in your role, please let us know and we will work with you to understand what support you need.