Community Links Advisor

£23,586 (pro rata) inclusive of allowances per annum

Surrey

Your experience of working with/supporting individuals with mental health problems includes providing advice and guidance, developing structured action plans and setting goals. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to East Surrey Community Connections as a Community Links Advisor.

Our East Surrey Community Connections service seeks to support adults (18+) with their mental health and emotional wellbeing to connect or re-connect to their community through one-to-one support, wellbeing courses, peer support groups and activities.

As our name suggests, both “community” and “connection” are at the heart of everything that we do. We have a deep understanding of the importance of feeling like you belong to a community and that you have a purpose and a role within that community. Our teams work closely with the people that we support, to help them to connect, or reconnect with themselves and the things and the people that are important to them.

We believe that recovery is a journey. We celebrate and build upon people’s successes, as well as supporting people in learning from their setbacks, to overcome any obstacles along the road to their recovery.

Ultimately, we believe in working with the people we support to empower them to take their next steps on their recovery journey.

That’s why we need you.

This is a 12 month fixed term post subject to review at the end of this term, part-time requiring the post-holder to work 27 hours per week. The base for this role will be Wingfield Resource Centre, Redhill, RH1 1AU, with the potential of working from home and community venues.

To review the Job Description please click here.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and welcome applications from those with Lived Experience.

This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted.

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter explaining why you feel you are right for the role.

On 1st June 2024, Richmond Fellowship, part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence merged with Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. In October 2024, Humankind will be renamed to reflect the new organisation.