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Would you like to work for a leading mental health charity in a rewarding role, where you will really make a difference? Then join us here at Rethink Mental Illness!
We have two exciting opportunities for a full time and part time Support Worker to join our inspiring and friendly team at our Bruddel Grove Swindon CQC Service.
The full time position is 35 hours per week on a permanent contract. The work pattern is comprised of 5 shifts per week, including one sleep-in shift per week. The salary for this role ranges from £18,090.60 to £19,860.93.
The part time position is 21 hours per week on a permanent contract. The work pattern is comprised of 3 shifts per week, including one sleep-in shift per week. The salary for this role ranges from £18,090.60 to £19,860.93 Pro rata.
You can read more about our employee benefits and rewards in the full advert on our website.
Your role will be a fixed base position working from our Bruddel Grove Service in Swindon. Bruddel Grove is a 5 bed Community Wellbeing house, providing a 10 night stay to adults experiencing acute mental health crisis. Our aim is to provide an alternative to a hospital setting where service users can access emotional and practical support to enable them to re-enter the community.
You will be working within our support worker team to provide person centred and outcome focussed care to adults experiencing acute mental health crisis. Within this role you will work with a wide range of people with an equally wide range of mental health conditions. You will support our service users to access and utilise recovery focused interventions, empower them to develop their coping skills and re-establish their confidence and independence. You will work alongside other mental health professionals to establish ongoing care plans and signpost service users to community services and support networks to enable them to maintain their mental wellbeing once they return home.
How will you make a difference?
Who I am?
The Recruitment Advisor looking after this role is Rose Adams. If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to drop her an email at recruitment@rethink.org or give her a call on 07775682782.
Who are we?
We are 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.”
We welcome applications from everyone, applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+ (LGBTQ+), people with a disability, or those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are actively encouraged to apply. We are proud to have also been awarded Disability Confident employer status. We have an ambition of becoming an anti-racist organisation and we recognise there is more to do in ensuring our recruitment is fair and inclusive, which is why we are recruiting new roles in helping us to achieve this.
Our Charity
Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:
What do we value?
Passion
We are passionate about leading the way to a better quality of life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.
Commitment
We work tirelessly to provide support for everyone severely affected by mental illness.
Openness
We are open and transparent in all our work with beneficiaries, supporters, partners and the public to achieve change for people severely affected by mental illness.
Hope
We offer hope of a better quality of life for all those severely affected by mental illness.
Expertise
We constantly use our expertise to provide practical and personal support for people who are severely affected by mental illness.
Understanding
People who are severely affected by mental illness are at the heart of everything we do in our organisation – our membership, our governance and our workforce.
Equity
We believe that in a world where discrimination and disadvantage exist, treating people with equity is critical to ensure justice and fairness for all.
Openness
We are open and transparent in all our work with beneficiaries, supporters, partners and the public to achieve change for people severely affected by mental illness.
What will you receive?
You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including funded training, career development, and a range of e-learning courses. You will also receive:
Employer funded pension
Flexible
working
Life
assurance
Employee Assistance Programme
Eyecare vouchers
up to £55 towards the cost of new glasses or lenses
Training opportunities
e-learning courses & much more
Annual
leave
25 days rising to 30, plus bank holidays
Rethink
day
1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
PULSE
Reward, Benefits and Recognition Platform
Employee Assistance Programme
Rethink day
1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday
For the full list, see our website here.
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