Community Links Advisor (Surrey)

Community Links Advisor £7,207 (pro rata of £25,741) inclusive per annum Part time 10.5 hours per week Surrey Your experience of working with/supporting individuals with mental health problems includes providing advice and guidance, developing structured action plans and setting goals. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to East Surrey Community Connections as a Community Links Advisor. Our East Surrey Community Connections service seeks to support individuals aged 16+ with their mental health and emotional wellbeing to connect or re-connect to their community through one-to-one support, wellbeing courses, peer support groups and activities. As our name suggests, both “community” and “connection” are at the heart of everything that we do. We have a deep understanding of the importance of feeling like you belong to a community and that you have a purpose and a role within that community. Our teams work closely with the people that we support, to help them to connect, or reconnect with themselves and the things and the people that are important to them. We believe that recovery is a journey. We celebrate and build upon people successes, as well as supporting people in learning from their setbacks, to overcome any obstacles along the road to their recovery. Ultimately, we believe in working with the people we support to empower them to take their next steps on their recovery journey. This is a 9 month fixed term post subject to review at the end of this term, part-time requiring the post-holder to work 10.5 hours per week. The base for this role will be Wingfield Resource Centre, Redhill, RH1 1AU. To review the Job Description please click here. We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or anyone from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic group. This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted. When applying, please upload a CV and supporting statement which should clearly outline your skills and experience. Learning and development is important to us, and we are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of apprenticeships. We hire apprentices into specific roles as well as offering apprenticeships to the workforce. Anyone can apply to undertake an apprenticeship relevant to the role as long as they are in a permanent post and have successfully passed probation. Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support. We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people. Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Richmond Fellowship’ or ‘Aquarius’ (our subsidiary charity in the Midlands). Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate. Thanks for bearing with us – and don’t forget to check out the Waythrough jobs on the Humankind job site https://peoplekind.my.salesforce-sites.com/recruit/ Aquarius Aquarius is a subsidiary of Waythrough. Aquarius is a Midlands-based charity supporting individuals to overcome the harms caused by drugs, alcohol and gambling. Aquarius has always held the view that people we support could resolve their problems with support and guidance and that people have the ability to find their own solutions to their problems. Our roles across the organisation include Practitioners and Administrators as well as Team Managers. Find out more at www.aquarius.org.uk