Rehabilitation & Wellbeing Worker

We are hiring a Rehabilitation & Wellbeing Worker - this role will be a big part of an exciting new initiative as part of Open Mental Health, where we value and adhere to a philosophy of ‘no wrong door’

You will join a new Community Rehabilitation Team, which will specialise in working with people with longer-term mental health support needs. The service will offer specialist rehabilitation assessment, support, and assistance to people with more complex mental health problems.

The service’s focus will be on supporting people to develop skills and confidence to live independently and to work towards each person’s own recovery goals and improved mental well-being. The service has high aspirations of recovery and well-being for everyone it supports.

Our aim is to reach all of Somerset’s communities and to ensure we do this, we have developed strong links with a range of organisations across the county.

To read more - Support Groups (rethink.org)

You will be working as part of a multi-agency team made up of team members from the Voluntary Sector Alliance and Somerset Foundation Trust.

Your role will be to work using a ‘whole-team’ approach to support individuals with long-term enduring mental health challenges to develop a well-rounded and long-lasting recovery within the community. Using a psychologically informed approach you will use a range of recovery and crisis management tools to support individuals to develop self-management skills, make informed decisions, maximise their independence and be part of their local community, accessing housing and other services that they are entitled to which benefit and interest them.

Who am I ? - we would love to hear from you if you have the following experience

• Knowledge of support needs of people with moderate to severe mental health needs
• Knowledge of health and safety issues, especially those relevant to mental health
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures relating to adults and children and young people
• Knowledge of equal opportunities issues
• A minimum of two years’ significant experience working with people with moderate to severe mental health needs.
• Experience of working with people who have experienced multiple disadvantages (e.g. mental health, homelessness, alcohol/drug dependency long term conditions)
• Experience of carrying out needs and/or risk assessments and the support planning process.
• Experience of time management and competing priorities when supporting people with complex needs.

Base

You will work across the following venues: Somerset on site in Yeovil (The Foyer), Wells (Keward House), and Bridgwater (Willow Ward). Team office space will be established in Bridgewater, and the role will include some home and community working.

Hours

Support will be offered 7 days a week, 10am – 8pm and you will work on an agile basis in line with an agreed rota. These are full-time roles to be worked flexibly including evenings and at the weekends.

If you wish to discuss anything about this role, before making the application, please contact for Second Step, for Mind, and for Rethink.

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

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Don’t meet all requirements?

If the role sounds exciting to you but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t exactly match every single requirement, we would still encourage you to apply, you may be just the right person for our position!

Caring for our people.

We offer a wide range of support. Some of our benefits include:

• PULSE – your rewards, wellbeing, and benefits platform. Providing access to thousands of discounts and benefits including cashback; reloadable cards; savings etc.
• Wellbeing support: Our Wellbeing hub that gives physical, and mental health support. We also have an Employee Assistance Programme with access to appointments
• Taking time for you: we work flexibly –you get to choose where you work, managing your own diary. We have generous annual leave, starting at 25 rising to 30 days, plus bank holidays, as well as your birthday off.
• Planning for the future: We have a contributory pension scheme.
• Structured Induction: Onboarding you into the Charity supporting your wellbeing along the way.
• £300 when you introduce a Friend: receive up to £300 when you introduce a friend or family member

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 for our Black, Asian and minority ethnic and our 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.

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 demonstrate our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and (asexual) (LGBTQIA+), people with a disability, and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

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