Community Link Worker Team Leader

We are currently hiring a Community Links Team Leader to join our inspiring and friendly Gloucestershire Empowering Minds Service.

This is a FTC role until 30/10/2026

This role will be homebased with travel around the community.

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

JOIN THE TEAM!

The Empowering Minds Service aims to improve individual mental health outcomes for Gloucestershire residents with a Serious Mental Illness and/or common mental health conditions. Through a personalised support approach, we seek to reduce the need to access primary and secondary mental health services.

How you will make a difference

You will lead a team of Community Link Workers, to ensure that we are delivering high-quality, safe and person-centred care and support in line with contractual requirements – most importantly delivering great outcomes for people using our services.

You will supervise and support the delivery of the community links offer for the service, overseeing direction of a vibrant offer of support in the community, and ensuring staff are able to thrive in their roles by delivering effective supervision and fostering growth and development in staff. I oversee the promotion of the service offer of support, and celebrate success by sharing service user stories internally and externally, using social media platforms and attending forums and events.

You will develop excellent relationships with professionals across Gloucestershire, building pathways between services to support people to access the right support from the right services, representing the service in health partnership meetings (Local Community Partnerships).

Essential skills and experience required for this role:

• Experience of supervising staff and experience of providing care and/or support services within a mental health or social care setting in either a paid or voluntary capacity.

• Knowledge and understanding of recovery principles and embedding the ethos of recovery into your own practice.

• The ability to make a comprehensive assessment of an individual’s situation and needs; to develop, implement and review risk management plans and devise support plans to meet these needs.

• My way of working demonstrates and reflects Rethink Mental Illness’ values of CARES (Connect, Accountable, Respect, Evolve and Success)

  A driving licence in compulsory as you will be required to travel in the Community

Who we are?
We’re 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 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 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. 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.

Please see further details on our Website
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If you have any questions about the position, please contact -recruitment@rethink.org

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