Posted Friday 5 June 2026 at 01:00 Expires Saturday 27 June 2026 at 00:59
Location: Field-based Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire and Bolsover
Hours: Part-time 14 Hours
Salary: £9817.96
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.
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.
We're looking for someone who is compassionate, resilient, and motivated to support others.
You will 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:
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.
We have an ambition of becoming 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.