Employment and Recovery Coach – Restore

Are you passionate about mental health recovery and social inclusion? Join Restore’s Inspiring Team!

Salary: £27,651 per annum
Location: Based at Manzil Way, regular visits to Restore Hubs
Hours: 35 hours per week, usual hours 9am–4.30pm, with occasional evenings/weekends

Make a Real Difference

For almost 50 years, Restore has supported Oxfordshire’s communities to flourish, transforming lives as a leading, local mental health charity. Join us and help shape brighter futures, giving hope and confidence to those who need it most. You’ll be valued in a workplace that celebrates diversity, mutual respect, and shared achievement.

As an Employment and Recovery Coach, you will be supporting and empowering people with mental health challenges to set goals, overcome barriers, and find their next steps in recovery, employment or other vocational activities.

About the Role

• Work as a team with Restore recovery workers and other coaching colleagues to deliver a quality, person-centred, goal-focused programme
• Provide one to one sessions using the GROW model
• Assist people to improve their employability, creating CVs, job search, make applications, and prepare for interviews
• Support individuals whose jobs may be at risk due to the effects of their poor mental health to retain their employment
• Foster collaborative work with other employment agencies
• Work in partnership with individuals, families, carers, and community networks, to co-produce new opportunities and initiatives
• Ensure all practice is safe, trauma-informed, and rooted in dignity, empowerment, and confidentiality

Successful applicants should be able to demonstrate their experience against the essential criteria below.
Essential Criteria:

• Positive attitude, resilience, and commitment to person-centred, recovery-oriented mental health support.
• Experience delivering one-to-one support using culturally responsive and inclusive approaches that are rooted in a strengths focused model of change.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, and organise work in a flexible, person-centred way.
• Good communication skills (written, verbal and motivational).
• IT literacy (proficient in Word, email, and data input).
• Willingness and ability to travel within Restore’s service area across Oxfordshire.
• Ability to build trust and engagement, and work collaboratively with individuals to co-design goals and recovery plans, with a commitment to anti-discriminatory, trauma-informed, and culturally safe practice.

All the above skills, knowledge, experience, and behaviours will be tested at application and interview including the desirables. Click ‘Apply’ to download the full job spec

Ready to make a difference?

Apply today and join us in shaping a brighter future for Oxfordshire.

• Closing date - Midnight 11th October 2026
• Interview date - Monday 21st October 2026 (face to face at Manzil Way office)