Mental Health Recovery Facilitator
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £31,716 to £37,104 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 August 2025 |
| Location: | Bracknell, Berkshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Bracknell Forest Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | People/25/319334 |
Summary
We have an opportunity for a Mental Health Recovery Facilitator to join our Mental Health and Out of Hours team.
At Bracknell Forest, we pride ourselves on being a council which is stable and well-managed where our employees can thrive in a supportive environment. We understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
About you...
As a Mental Health Recovery Facilitator, you will enjoy helping people to identify their strengths and inspirations. You will have the skills to encourage them to develop their own personal support network.
As a member of the Mental Health and Out of Hours team, you will provide short-term focused support to individuals experiencing mental ill-health. Drawing on your skills in relationship building, graded exposure, confidence building, anxiety management and motivational techniques to support individuals experiencing mental ill-health.
You will collaborate with clients and their carers to support their recovery and wellbeing. Assisting them to access and attend appointments around benefits, housing, education, volunteering, employment and social activities. You will support our clients to gain independence and help prevent episodes of mental ill-health that warrant secondary care or bed-based provision.
You will be supported to own and take action. Our journey, our place, your opportunity.
About the team...
We are a small expanding team who work closely together in a fast-paced environment, providing support to our clients. We engage with other services and ensure our clients are at the forefront of everything we do. Sometimes the work is challenging however there is also time for finding creative solutions and every day is different.
Here at Bracknell Forest Council, we are always looking for better ways of doing things.
Key responsibilities...
To engage with people using a strengths-based approach to assess their own mental health and wellbeing needs.
Develop a person-centred support plan in collaboration with carers, family and friends, healthcare professionals, and both statutory and voluntary services.
To support with the facilitation and development our group offers.
At Bracknell Forest, we pride ourselves on being a council which is stable and well-managed where our employees can thrive in a supportive environment. We understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
About you...
As a Mental Health Recovery Facilitator, you will enjoy helping people to identify their strengths and inspirations. You will have the skills to encourage them to develop their own personal support network.
As a member of the Mental Health and Out of Hours team, you will provide short-term focused support to individuals experiencing mental ill-health. Drawing on your skills in relationship building, graded exposure, confidence building, anxiety management and motivational techniques to support individuals experiencing mental ill-health.
You will collaborate with clients and their carers to support their recovery and wellbeing. Assisting them to access and attend appointments around benefits, housing, education, volunteering, employment and social activities. You will support our clients to gain independence and help prevent episodes of mental ill-health that warrant secondary care or bed-based provision.
You will be supported to own and take action. Our journey, our place, your opportunity.
About the team...
We are a small expanding team who work closely together in a fast-paced environment, providing support to our clients. We engage with other services and ensure our clients are at the forefront of everything we do. Sometimes the work is challenging however there is also time for finding creative solutions and every day is different.
Here at Bracknell Forest Council, we are always looking for better ways of doing things.
Key responsibilities...
To engage with people using a strengths-based approach to assess their own mental health and wellbeing needs.
Develop a person-centred support plan in collaboration with carers, family and friends, healthcare professionals, and both statutory and voluntary services.
To support with the facilitation and development our group offers.
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