Mental Health Recovery Practitioner

Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services - and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated., Providing help and support to people experiencing mental health difficulties, This is a new four-year Lottery funded project (People and Places) to provide an all-Wales wellbeing and mental health recovery support service, delivering person-focused support to vulnerable Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people in communities within North, Mid, West and Southwest Wales.

Providing help and support to people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly within minority ethnic communities, enabling them to sustain independent life in the community., 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.
Provide relevant online digital support for ethnic minority individuals through various online activities that promote mental health and wellbeing.
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.

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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.