Monday to Friday - 9am - 5:30pm
Weekly hours: 37.5 hours a week
Our Vacancy
We re looking for a compassionate and committed Mental Health Support Worker to join our Luton Outreach Service. In this role, you ll provide high-quality support to individuals with a history of mental illness, helping them to live independently and achieve their personal goals. You ll work collaboratively with residents and partner agencies to promote recovery, wellbeing, and inclusion, while ensuring compliance with Peabody s policies and best practice standards. This is a rewarding role where you ll make a real difference to people s lives every day.
What you ll do
As a Mental Health Support Worker, you ll carry out needs and risk assessments, develop support plans, and provide tailored assistance to residents. You ll help customers maximise their income, sustain their housing, and access training, education, and health services. You ll maintain accurate records, liaise with colleagues and external agencies on safeguarding and welfare concerns, and actively promote the service within the community. You ll also encourage self-management of health and wellbeing, participate in team meetings and training, and ensure all activities comply with health and safety and equality standards. Please note this role will require an Enhanced DBS check as well as participation in an on-call rota.
What you ll need
- Experience supporting vulnerable adults, ideally within a mental health setting.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with residents, colleagues, and external partners.
- Access to a vehicle and a full, clean, UK Driving License.
- Good IT literacy, including confidence using Microsoft Office and data entry systems.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, equality and diversity, and health and safety in supported housing.
- A flexible, empathetic approach and resilience to manage a busy and challenging role.
Why Join Us?
When you join Peabody, you re joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels supported, included, and empowered.
What We Offer
- 30 days annual holiday, plus bank holidays
- Two additional paid volunteering days each year
- Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal
- 4 x salary life assurance
- up to 10% pension contribution
If this sounds like we are right for you and you d love to be part of Peabody, we d like to hear from you. Please apply now by submitting an anonymised CV and a short statement explaining why you re the perfect fit for this role.
Closing Date:21/01/2026
Interviews will be taking place Thursday 29th January
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.