Community Mental Health Link Worker

Salary: Starting from £24,454 (Full Time Equivalent) per annum

Hours: 34 hours per week

Location: Redditch, Worcestershire

This is a rolling advert.

Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the advert will close upon successful appointment.

Are you looking for a role that can make a difference?

About the role

Join ONSIDE and discover the role as a Community Mental Health Link Worker and work as part of team of professionals working closely with Housing Associations within Redditch to support residents who are experiencing housing insecurity and mental ill health to provide a person-centred approach that enables positive change, sustains tenancies and avoids homelessness.

A Community Mental Health Link Worker supports residents’ needs relating to mental health and the wider determinants of health and wellbeing and to help break down barriers for residents between housing, drug and alcohol support services, and primary and secondary mental health services.

ONSIDE’s Benefits

• 26 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays
• Pension Scheme
• Company Sick Pay Scheme (after qualifying service)
• Additional Maternity & Paternity Pay (after qualifying service)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to premium Calm App
• Employee Engagement Forum to ensure our employee’s voices are heard!
• Your ‘Birthday Day’ Off
• Supportive working environment & good work/life balance culture
• Support with continuous professional development

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who has experience of working positively with individuals and supporting them with mental ill health and has the ability to build trust with people. Someone who has an understanding and knowledge on the impact poor mental health can have on a person’s life and the complex social and emotional challenges they may face.

A Community Mental Health Link Worker will need great communication and organisation skills. And can be someone who has experience of mentoring or coaching and may have experience in facilitating one-to-one and group support.

If you’re looking for a job that you can be proud of, apply now. More people need our help than ever before. Because of that, we are growing faster than ever before. The role of Community Mental Health Link Worker is a real career opportunity to discover!

Someone like you?

If you embrace difference and operate with integrity.

If you are committed to fairness and justice.

If you are creative in your approach, can think around problems and find new ways to solve them.

If you’re looking for a job that you can be proud of and be passionate about. Please submit your application.

These values run through our entire organisation. ONSIDE is a creative, collaborative community where people feel free to share new ideas or ask for support. If something’s not right, we don’t just change it. We change ourselves too.

Who are ONSIDE?

ONSIDE is a charity working across Worcestershire and Herefordshire, established in 1993 stemming from a belief that everyone has the right to be a valued human being and to be treated in a just and fair way.

In support of this belief, we provide a range of support services across advocacy, wellbeing and mental health for adults, children and young people who may be vulnerable, disadvantaged or discriminated against. This includes mental and physical ill health, sensory impairment, learning disability, drug and alcohol misuse, older people, and carers. ONSIDE is funded through a range of sources to maintain its independence and ensure that the support it provides reflects the views and perspective of the people it wishes to help.

Our amazing team of skilled staff and volunteers make a difference to the lives of over 15,000 people a year!

More people need our help than ever before. Because of that, we are growing faster than ever before. The role of Community Mental Health Link Worker is a real career opportunity to support adults experiencing housing insecurity and poor mental health in your community!

Want to know more?

Please get in touch with Taryn Hill, Programme Manager for Adult Wellbeing Services, by email taryn.hill@onside-advocacy.org.uk.

Please also access our guidance on how to apply to ONSIDE on our advert pages.

ONSIDE reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy before the closing