Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach
- Location: Field Based, North East Derbyshire and Bolsover (excluding Derby City)
- Hours: 28 hours per week
- Salary: £19,635.93
- DBS: Enhanced with Adult Barred List Check
Make a difference where it matters most.
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live a fulfilling life, regardless of the mental health challenges they face. We're looking for a compassionate, motivated and resilient Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach to join our innovative Living Well Service across Derbyshire.
This is more than a support role. It's an opportunity to help shape the future of community mental health services while empowering people to build confidence, strengthen resilience and achieve the goals that matter most to them.
About the role
As a Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach, you'll be embedded within our Living Well team, working alongside NHS colleagues, VCSE partners and community organisations to deliver person-centred, recovery-focused support.
You'll support people experiencing complex mental health challenges, helping them identify their goals, navigate services and connect with local opportunities that improve wellbeing and independence.
Every day will be different, but you can expect to:
- Manage a caseload of people with complex mental health needs.
- Deliver one-to-one coaching and facilitate group wellbeing sessions.
- Support people to develop personalised recovery plans and identify meaningful goals.
- Build confidence, self-management skills and emotional resilience.
- Connect individuals with community resources, housing support, education, employment and other services.
- Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to support positive outcomes.
- Help develop and improve services through co-production and innovation.
- Travel across Derbyshire to support individuals and develop community connections.
Who we're looking for
We're looking for someone who is passionate about mental health recovery and believes in people's ability to achieve positive change.
You'll bring:
- Experience supporting people with complex and multifaceted mental health needs, including serious mental illness.
- Experience managing a varied caseload and supporting people facing multiple disadvantages.
- A strong understanding of mental health and the ability to recognise signs that someone's wellbeing may be deteriorating.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, risk management and information governance.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.
It would be great if you also have:
- Knowledge of local mental health, health and social care services.
- Experience of community navigation or social prescribing approaches.
- A health and social care qualification, or a willingness to work towards one.
Ready to make a difference?
If you're passionate about supporting people to take control of their mental health, build resilience and reconnect with their communities, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us create a future where everyone affected by mental illness has the support and opportunity they need to thrive.
Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:
- Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
- Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
- Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform.
- Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days.
- Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities.
- Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes.
- Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
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.
