Mental Health Money Navigator

Rethink Mental Illness; Osage City (KS); Remote; USD 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health charity is seeking a passionate Mental Health Money Navigator to provide essential financial advice and support to clients struggling with mental health issues. This full-time, home-based role emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusivity, ensuring a supportive environment for both clients and staff.

Benefits

Flexible working

Employer funded pension

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

25 days annual leave increasing to 30

Training opportunities and e-learning courses

Rethink day off on Birthday

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health services and financial advice required.
• Ability to support individuals from diverse backgrounds and needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first point of contact for clients and carers needing support.
• Provide unregulated financial advice and support for benefits needs.
• Triage referrals and link clients to appropriate specialist advisors.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Financial capability advice

Job description

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Vacancy Salary £22,993.74 per annum

Vacancy Location Home based

This is a Permanent, 35 Hours vacancy that will close in 21 days at 23:59 BST.

Your role

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Mental Health Money Navigator to work as part of our Advice & Information Team.

Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values. We draw on the expertise, unique perspectives and lived experience of our people – regardless of who they are or their background – to help us become inclusive and anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider that reflect the diverse communities we support as a mental health charity.

You Will Be The First Point Of Contact For Clients And Carers Who Have Been Referred To Mental Health And Money Advice, (MHMA), For Support With Their Money And Benefit Needs. You Will Triage Referrals Providing

• Unregulated advice and support, (i.e. provide them with financial capability and simple benefits advice, including benefits and better off to work calculations)
• Understand clients needs and refer them to specialist money advisers or benefit advisors for more complex and regulated advice
• Signposting/referring to external organisations for further support with mental health needs
• Signposting to other forms of money support when the person does not meet the requirements for support from MHMA.
  
  

You will also support the Mental Health Benefits and Energy Advisors with their casework, for example completing budgets sheets, arranging fuel and food bank vouchers, completing simple benefit applications.

How You Will Make a Difference

The Mental Health and Money Advice Service is the first UK-wide service to address mental and financial health together. We aim to stop the spiral of debt and mental health issues by providing online information and advice and casework provided by telephone. The service launched in November 2017, commissioned by Mental Health UK and delivered by Rethink Mental Illness in England, Adferiad Recovery in Wales, ChangeMH in Scotland and Mindwise in Northern Ireland.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

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 statusand 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.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation

We have an ambition of become 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 ouranti-racist statement.We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in ourRace Equality Action Planwhich demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.

If you have any questions about the position, please contact - [e-mail]

Our Charity

Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:

• Commitment
• Equity
• Expertise
• Hope
• Openness
• Passion
• Understanding
  
  

What do we value?

Passion

We are passionate about leading the way to a better quality of life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.

Commitment

We work tirelessly to provide support for everyone severely affected by mental illness.

Openness

We are open and transparent in all our work with beneficiaries, supporters, partners and the public to achieve change for people severely affected by mental illness.

Hope

We offer hope of a better quality of life for all those severely affected by mental illness.

Expertise

We constantly use our expertise to provide practical and personal support for people who are severely affected by mental illness.

Understanding

People who are severely affected by mental illness are at the heart of everything we do in our organisation – our membership, our governance and our workforce.

Equity

We believe that in a world where discrimination and disadvantage exist, treating people with equity is critical to ensure justice and fairness for all.

Openness

We are open and transparent in all our work with beneficiaries, supporters, partners and the public to achieve change for people severely affected by mental illness.

What will you receive?

You Will Have Plenty Of Opportunities To Enhance Your Abilities With The Opportunity To Make a Real Difference Every Day. In Addition, You Will Have Excellent Development Opportunities Including Funded Training, Career Development, And a Range Of E-learning Courses. You Will Also Receive

Employer funded pension

Flexible

working

Life

assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Eyecare vouchers

up to £55 towards the cost of new glasses or lenses

Training opportunities

e-learning courses & much more

Annual

leave

25 days rising to 30, plus bank holidays

Rethink

day

1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday

PULSE

Reward, Benefits and Recognition Platform

Employee Assistance Programme

Rethink day

1 day’s additional leave (pro rata) on your Birthday

For the full list, see our website here.

Our colleagues say

“From the very start I was made to feel welcome and respected in my new team. In the short time I have been working with Rethink Mental Illness as a service administrator I have been able to contribute ideas and make meaningful change, and I appreciate that Rethink allows me to direct my own role development and help me build on the skills I want to work on.”

“Working for Rethink Mental Illness is the most rewarding job I could ask for. As a Peer and Volunteer Co-ordinator I get to work with a huge variety of people, with a range of skills and support them to incorporate those skills into their volunteering roles. I am always looking for gaps that need filling and creating new and exciting opportunities that will benefit our service, mental health in the community, but most importantly the people giving up their time to help.”

“I’ve previously worked in a large corporate environment, in the criminal justice sector and other charities. Without a shadow of a doubt, Rethink Mental Illness has been the best employer I’ve ever had. They care about their staff. Its great working with like-minded people and knowing that you are making a real difference to people’s lives.”

“It feels very rewarding to be part of such a meaningful Organisation where everyone is valued and has the opportunity to make a difference”.

Please be mindful that we may need to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications, we, therefore, encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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