Mental Health Recovery Worker

We are looking for a an experienced and passionate Mental Health Recovery Worker to join our Wolverhampton Sanctuary Hub.

The service is a safe place to turn to for people and their carers who are in need of mental health support or in emotional distress during the evening and weekends.

Our dedicated team are friendly, warm, enthusiastic, reliable, and responsive to individual needs. We are all experienced and trained mental health recovery workers who provide person-centred support. Providing a person centred, holistic and non-stigmatising environment. We take a strength based, focusing on assets, independence, recovery, and social inclusion with no wrong door approach.

The service provides out of hours mental health support to people over the age of 18+ who live and have a registered GP in Wolverhampton.

The service is open 365 days of the year, Monday – Friday 6pm-11pm, Saturday & Sunday 12noon – 11pm.

• We provide out of hours support to those who are in crisis or in need of support outside of usual mental health service hours

Who we support

Support is available to people of any age living in the Wolverhampton and experiencing urgent mental health difficulties or concerns

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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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 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.

If you have any questions about the position, please contact - recruitment@rethink.org

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