Mental Health Advice Worker at Mind Brighton And Hove

Community Base; Brighton; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A local mental health charity in Brighton seeks a Mental Health Advice Worker to provide vital support and advice to individuals facing mental health challenges. The role requires excellent communication skills and experience in working with individuals with lived experience of mental health issues. Benefits include 29 days of annual leave pro rata, training, and a pension contribution. Successful candidates will be subject to DBS clearance. The position offers a full-time salary of £26,861 per annum for 35 hours a week.

Benefits

29 days’ leave (pro rata)

3% pension contribution

24-hour Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Track record of undertaking advice work.
• Commitment to the recovery model.
• Experience of working with people with lived mental health experiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health advice and information face to face and via telephone.
• Support individuals in developing self-help strategies.
• Deliver wellbeing workshops and community outreach.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Experience in advice work

Engagement with individuals with mental health experience

Job description

Mind in Brighton and Hove empowers and supports people who have experience of mental health issues in Brighton and Hove and West Sussex. We are a Local Mind Affiliated to National Mind.

We are seeking to appoint a Mental Health Advice Worker for our busy and established service in Brighton and Hove. The role plays an essential part of our response to those people contacting us with their mental health enquiries and concerns.

You will responsible for offering a range of face to face and telephone mental health advice and information to people living in the city, including carers and family members who have contacted us with a mental health concern. The service also delivers awareness raising wellbeing workshops and community outreach as part of its delivery.
The role involves supporting people to identify strategies for looking after their own mental health wellbeing along with providing self‑help information and resources.

You will require excellent communication skills, a track record of undertaking advice work and experience of successfully engaging and working with people with lived mental health experience. A commitment and understanding of the recovery model is essential.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including full induction, training and 29 days’ leave (pro rata) per year excluding bank holidays, 3% pension contribution and access to a 24‑hour Employee Assistance Programme.

All successful applicants are subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance.

Closing date: Wednesday 7th January 2026
Successful candidates will be notified of interview details by 5pm on 9th January 2026
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 14th January 2026 at 51 New England St, Brighton BN1 4GQ

Full job details and application pack can be found on our website:
www.mindcharity.co.uk/get-involved/work-with-us

Full Time Salary £26,861 per annum (FTE 35 hours a week, pro rata 21 hours)

https://www.mindcharity.co.uk/get-involved/work-with-us