Compass Recovery College is a mental health and wellbeing organisation, where free courses are co-devised and co-delivered with people with lived experience of mental illness, clinical staff and other professionals.
Our courses focus on recovery and self-management skills. Courses vary in length and style. All our courses are free and are designed and delivered by people with mental health challenges
Compass Recovery College works with a wide range of community based organisations to encourage students to try new experiences, meet new people and form new relationships.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Worker to support people falling into Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) groups and vulnerable communities with their mental health and wellbeing and with re-entering society after periods of social isolation.
The Recovery Worker will coordinate workshops and support delivery with expert contractors and VCS partners from a mental health standpoint. They will support and deliver courses pertaining specifically to COVID, lockdown, isolation, their effects on mental health, techniques for coping and self-management.
This is a 1 year fixed term contract.
If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Lara Stavrinou on 07870 486005, email lara.stavrinou@reading.gov.uk.
Please apply via Reading Borough Council website with your CV and covering letter https://www.reading.gov.uk/council/jobs/