Mental Health Recovery Worker

Salary: £24,920 inclusive per annum

Permanent Full Time (37.5 hours per week) based on a rota basis including evenings, nights and weekends

Chadwick Fields, Cheshire

Would you like to be part of an organisation that counts on the professionalism, insight, expertise and passion of its staff to inspire individual recovery for the people they support?

About the Service:  

The Chadwick Fields Service delivers low level floating support Monday – Sunday during the hours of 9am -5pm. The time of support is flexible to the needs of the client. If a tenant is in crisis outside of these hours, then they are signposted to external agencies such as the Mental Health Crisis Line, present to A&E, the Crisis Team. Tenants are given details of external organisations such as the Samaritans, Togetherall, Calm App when they are taken on into Chadwick Fields.

About the Role:

The range of support provided includes but is not limited to the following: - 

• Support to sign up to a Muir tenancy. Due to being an Independent Living service housing benefit may either be sourced through housing benefit or housing costs if on Universal Credit. 
• Support to set up utility bills, gas, water, electric, tv and council tax. 
• Build on tenants’ current strengths and provide appropriate tailored support to maintain their mental health including emotional support, monitoring their mental health and providing practical assistance by maintaining key working relationships with Care Co-ordinators, Social Workers, Care Managers and Carers where appropriate. 
• Working with Care Co-ordinators/Care Managers and other agencies and individuals who are important factors in their life to ensure that appropriate, achievable and outcome-focused support plan is in place. 
• To provide support including housing advice and advice about tenants’ responsibilities and the implications of breaching them, to ensure that tenants develop the skills and knowledge that will enable them to sustain permanent accommodation in the community. 
• To provide support that will support individuals to develop healthy and safe lifestyles. 
• To work with tenants to ensure that positive relationships with other individuals and the wider community are developed and maintained including conflict resolution. 
• Support to reconnect and build positive relationships at service level and where requested and appropriate family and friends. 
• Support and assist tenants to access resources and/or activities that will help to achieve the overall aims of the service and will enable them to meet their identified individual outcomes. Support to reconnect and build positives relationships at service level, within the community and where requested and appropriate family and friends. 
• To maximise benefits, apply for any eligible exemptions, discounts or grants. 
• To support to manage debts and any repayment plans which are in place. 
• Support to identify, apply and attend any courses to enhance wellbeing, employment and basic skill needs. 
• Support to identify, apply and attend any employment opportunities, paid or voluntary. 
• Support to maximise health and wellbeing book and attend appointments such as GP, dentist, CMHT and were necessary to order and oversee medication. 
• Organise and facilitate activities such as walking groups, cinema groups, activity days. 
• Encourage involvement in the running of Waythrough as an organisation through promoting coproduction at every opportunity (national service user events, recruitment and selection involvement, peer mentoring etc.) 
• Provide a person-centred holistic recovery focussed approach. 
• Support with day-to-day skills to help the tenant sustain their accommodation. 

About You:

Like us, you are keen to break down the stigma of mental health. You’ll bring all your skills to the table, including strong customer service and communication skills, but also your empathetic, flexible, creative and compassionate nature and enthusiasm for supporting others. You’ll thrive under pressure, be happy to work both independently and within a team and know how to connect with people at all levels and really enjoy helping others.

No formal qualifications required as full training will be provided. If you have the skills and qualities listed above, we want to hear from you.

Candidates with an understanding of mental health issues and/or lived experience would be welcomed. Whatever your background, you’ll need to be happy to work both independently and within a team and willing to be part of a weekly rota system and available for on call duties, which may include evenings, weekends and nights.

In return for your skills and enthusiasm, this role comes with some really great benefits and excellent training and development opportunities.

To review the Job Description please click here.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or anyone from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic group.

This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted. Please note we do not offer sponsorships.​

When applying, please upload a CV and attach a covering letter explaining why you are applying for the role.

Learning and development is important to us, and we are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of apprenticeships. We hire apprentices into specific roles as well as offering apprenticeships to the workforce. Anyone can apply to undertake an apprenticeship relevant to the role as long as they are in a permanent post and have successfully passed probation.

Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship (RF). Aquarius supports people in the Midlands affected by substance use or gambling. It was a subsidiary of Richmond Fellowship and is now a subsidiary of Waythrough.

We are specialists in mental health, alcohol, drugs and related areas. We provide high quality, evidence-based services, which are designed around the needs of the people we support. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value.