Location: Field-based Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire and Bolsover
Hours: Part-time 14 Hours
Salary: £9817.96
Do you want to help people rebuild their lives?
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to live a fulfilling life. As a Mental Health Recovery Worker, you’ll play a vital role in supporting people affected by severe mental illness to regain confidence, independence, and hope.
This is more than a job – it’s a chance to be part of someone’s recovery journey.
About the role
You’ll provide one-to-one, community-based support to people across Derbyshire, helping them identify and achieve their recovery goals. Using a strengths-based and recovery-focused approach, you’ll empower individuals to build the skills and resilience they need to live independently.
From helping someone access local services to supporting them through challenges, no two days are the same – but every day makes a difference.
What you’ll be doing
- Delivering personalised, one-to-one support tailored to individual recovery goals
- Supporting people to build independence, confidence, and wellbeing
- Developing and reviewing care, recovery, and safety plans
- Working collaboratively with mental health services, community groups, and partner organisations
- Carrying out assessments and identifying individual needs and risks
- Encouraging service users to access local opportunities and services
- Keeping accurate records and monitoring progress and outcomes
- Promoting safeguarding and ensuring individuals are safe at all times
- Supporting volunteers and contributing positively to the wider team
- Representing Rethink Mental Illness within the local community
About you
We’re looking for someone who is compassionate, resilient, and motivated to support others.
You will:
- Have experience supporting people with mental health needs (paid or voluntary)
- Be confident in assessing needs and developing support plans
- Be able to motivate and coach individuals towards their goals
- Understand recovery-focused and strengths-based approaches
- Be comfortable working independently in a community setting
- Have strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Be committed to safeguarding and professional boundaries
Essential:
- Full driving licence and access to a vehicle
Desirable:
- Relevant qualification (e.g. NVQ/QCF Level 3 in Care or Community Mental Health)
- Knowledge of local services and community resources
About the service
You’ll be part of the Derbyshire Recovery and Peer Support Service, working alongside partner organisations to deliver high-quality, person-centred support across the county.
The service offers:
- One-to-one community support
- Peer support groups and wellbeing sessions
- Opportunities for people to rebuild confidence and social connections
Why join us?
- Make a meaningful impact every day
- Be part of a supportive, values-driven team
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- A role with purpose, autonomy, and variety
Ready to apply?
If you’re passionate about supporting people with mental health challenges and want to be part of a service that truly changes lives, we’d love to hear from you.
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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.
