Mental Health Adviser

Salary: £27k - £29k 

Location: Surrey (outreach, hybrid and remote available)

Who We Are

Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving people’s economic wellbeing. Delivering a range of employability programmes and services, we passionately believe that good work is part of a healthy life. In the past five years, we’ve supported more than 35,000 people across the UK back into work, helping families get out of poverty and improving their quality of life. We’re part of The Fedcap Group, a pioneering US-charity formed in 1935.

Your Role

The Mental Health Adviser will provide on-going support and advice to customers that are experiencing poor mental health and/or employment difficulties relating to stress, anxiety or depression. You will provide personalised support and promote evidence-based coping strategies to enable customers to remain in work and contribute to their overall wellbeing. 

Your Responsibilities 

• Provide advice, information, and guidance to referred customers on the provision of mental health support thorugh in-person appointments, zoom, email or telephone.  
• Effectively manage and prioritise a caseload of customers with mental health issues.
• Provide advice on techniques and strategies to self-manage health during work. 
• Contribute to mental health awareness-raising activities generally, promoting the maintenance of good mental health and wellbeing, including: confidence building, managing stress & resilience, sleep and routine, and assertiveness.
• Develop relationships and networks with key stakeholders including employers, job centre teams, GPs and other healthcare providers.
• Regularly review the mental health support being offered, identifying any gaps in support and making recommendations to the Health & Wellbeing Manager.

Your Skills & Experience

• Experience of working in health promotion or public health. 
• Previous experience supporting individuals with physical and mental health difficulties in a participant facing environment. 
• Ability to build rapport, engage and coach individuals to progress. 
• Knowledge and experience of local specialist networks and provisions. 
• Able to engage with peers/practitioners across local areas 
• Supported customers with health issues in a back to work, vocational rehabilitation or occupational health setting
• Working towards full professional registration with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), or British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) – desirable.

Our Inspiring People

People are always the focus of what we do at Fedcap. And our people are dedicated to inspiring confidence in our customers so they can believe in themselves and a better life for their families. They’re hard working and focused on delivering for our customers because they care and understand the important role they play in their customers’ journeys to a more secure, healthier and happier life. Driven by our strong values and sense of purpose, our inspiring people have formed a diverse and inclusive community. 

Your Benefits

As well as receiving dedicated health and wellbeing support, including access to our 24/7 employee assistance programme for you and your family, we’ll provide you with very clear stages of accredited development and learning. Not only that, we offer a wide range of benefits including: 

• Minimum 33 days’ holiday entitlement and a pension contribution up to 5% 
• Monthly benefits scheme worth up to an additional £500 
• Free life assurance cover, totalling four times your annual salary 
• And much more 

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer and as such, any candidate with a disability will not be excluded unless the candidate is unable to perform a duty intrinsic to the role, having considered reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability.

Salary : $27,000 - $29,000