Mental Health Recovery Practitioner

Contract: 12 hours per week, Permanent

Salary: £23,658.53 per annum (pro rata)

Based at: Neville Street, Cardiff

Job Purpose:

Providing help and support to people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly within Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, enabling them to sustain independent life in the community.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide relevant support to enable people to maintain their independence and to achieve their aspirations for independent living.
Increase the motivation of individuals.
Coordinate and develop the volunteer befriending role.
Support individuals to pursue outside activities/interests.
Support individuals to have the confidence necessary to appreciate that they can exercise choices.
Develop the role of volunteers in delivering services to clients.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.

Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.

FOR A FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION, AND TO APPLY: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=989c0493-f21f-44b1-a6f8-1cbf8c4ce532

If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org or 01792 816600