Key details
Rethink Mental Illness
Pay Rate
17181.44 per annum
Hours
part-time
Location
Bodmin, Bude, Callington, Camborne, Camelford, Falmouth/Penryn, Hayle, Helston, Launceston, Liskeard, Looe, Newquay, Padstow, Penzance, Redruth, Saltash, St Agnes/Perranporth, St Austell, St Ives, St Just, The Clays, The Roseland, Torpoint, Truro, Wadebridge
About the role
Mental Health Carers Specialist Advisor
Location: Field-based (Cornwall & Isles of Scilly)
Hours: 24.5 hrs per week (0.70 FTE) in year 1 , increasing to 26.25 hours per week (0.75 FTE) in year two and 28 hours per week (0.80 FTE) in year 3
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £17,181.44
Make a difference to carers’ lives – every single day
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe everyone severely affected by mental illness deserves a better quality of life. As a Mental Health Carers Specialist Advisor, you’ll play a vital role in supporting unpaid carers — people who are often the backbone of mental health support.
This is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to build meaningful relationships, empower carers, and ensure no one feels they are navigating mental health challenges alone.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll provide practical and emotional support to unpaid carers supporting someone with mental illness. Using a person-centred, strengths-based approach, you’ll help carers build confidence, access the right services and improve their wellbeing.
About the service
Our Cornwall Mental Health Carers Service supports unpaid carers across the county, offering tiered support ranging from short-term guidance to more intensive, ongoing help.
We work flexibly — providing support face-to-face, online, by phone, and in community settings — and collaborate with partner organisations to ensure joined-up care.
If you’re passionate about supporting carers and want to be part of a team that’s leading change in mental health, we’d love to hear from you.
Location: Field-based (Cornwall & Isles of Scilly)
Hours: 24.5 hrs per week (0.70 FTE) in year 1 , increasing to 26.25 hours per week (0.75 FTE) in year two and 28 hours per week (0.80 FTE) in year 3
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £17,181.44
Make a difference to carers’ lives – every single day
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe everyone severely affected by mental illness deserves a better quality of life. As a Mental Health Carers Specialist Advisor, you’ll play a vital role in supporting unpaid carers — people who are often the backbone of mental health support.
This is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to build meaningful relationships, empower carers, and ensure no one feels they are navigating mental health challenges alone.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll provide practical and emotional support to unpaid carers supporting someone with mental illness. Using a person-centred, strengths-based approach, you’ll help carers build confidence, access the right services and improve their wellbeing.
About the service
Our Cornwall Mental Health Carers Service supports unpaid carers across the county, offering tiered support ranging from short-term guidance to more intensive, ongoing help.
We work flexibly — providing support face-to-face, online, by phone, and in community settings — and collaborate with partner organisations to ensure joined-up care.
If you’re passionate about supporting carers and want to be part of a team that’s leading change in mental health, we’d love to hear from you.
What we offer our staff
Training and development
Birthdays off
Other essentials
Driving license required
Key Responsibilities
Deliver one-to-one support, helping carers identify goals and create personalised support plans
Provide information, advice, guidance and signposting to services and community support
Help carers navigate mental health, health and social care systems
Facilitate carer groups, courses and awareness events
Complete Carers Assessments and support access to personal budgets
Work collaboratively with health, social care and voluntary sector partners
Promote inclusion and help identify hidden carers in the community
Maintain accurate records and contribute to quality and service improvement
You’ll also play an important role in creating a safe, inclusive and responsive service, shaped by the voices and experiences of carers.
