Mental Health Advisor

Mental Health Advisor - Gosforth

24 hour service working days/nights and weekends, enhancements paid for unsocial hours.

Full-time and part-time roles available.

Part time roles are for cover of weekday evening and weekend shifts; ideal for people looking to balance work with other daytime commitments.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as is does not meet the requirements as set out by the UK Visa and Immigration Service

As a Mental Health Advisor, you will provide initial telephone and text-based support to Service Users experiencing mental health distress and crisis. Taking calls for our North Yorkshire, York and Selby NHS 111 Option 2 service and providing text support to residents of South London and Maudsley.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following experience:

• Demonstrable experience of working 1:1 with service users with complex needs
• Demonstrable experience working within Health, social care or VCSE systems
• Awareness of Health and Social care systems.
• Awareness of national and local organisations and other resources that can support individuals to improve and maintain good mental health.
• Awareness of recovery in the context of mental health
• Awareness of the effects of stigma and discrimination
• Awareness of issues surrounding homelessness, financial inclusion or substance misuse

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years’ service) pro-rata for part-time and the option to purchase or sell day
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream-ability torelease earnings, giving you instant access to your pay
• Smart clinic Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
• Plus, many more great benefits on offer

Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQIA+;
Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, once we have received a sufficient number of applications, we reserve the right to expire vacancies, so please submit your application as soon as possible.