Bluebird Community Link Worker

Application Deadline: 29 September 2025

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Community Liaison and Diversion

Reporting To: Sarrah Husain

Compensation: £27,740 / year

Description

This job is an opportunity to make a difference and shape lives! Too many people pass through the criminal justice system without their mental health needs being recognised. With more than 70% of the prison population experience some level of mental distress, it’s crucial that specialist services exist to ensure that people get the care and support they need to break the cycle of offending. This is where you come in.
 
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Award winning London Liaison and Diversion services across London. This role links closely with our L&D service which aims to identify and work with people going through the criminal justice system who have mental health needs and other vulnerabilities to support their access to appropriate services in the community. We currently recruiting in our Community L&D service in London.
 
The vacancies we would like to recruit for are Pan London across all London boroughs. 
 
 What you need to know about Together:

Together is England’s oldest mental health charity and since we were formed in 1879, we have believed that people with mental health issues have the right and the abilities to lead independent, fulfilling lives as part of their communities. We offer a wide variety of support to help people deal with the personal and practical impacts of mental health issues.

The services we provide include supporting people in criminal justice settings who’ve experienced mental distress, one-to-one support in the community, supported housing and 24 hour accommodation services and advocacy.

Our core principle at Together is service user leadership as we believe that benefits those people who are accessing support and has positive impact on all aspects of Together, and wider society. We want to be able to learn from people who have a range of views and who have experienced mental distress. By learning from the people who use our services in that way we aim to inform and influence Together from a Lived Experience perspective.

This is a fixed term position until 31st October 2025

Key functions include:

Offer short-term (often up to three months), outreach support through;

• Referring people to relevant services
• Accompanying them to appointments - Engaging them in 1:1 work to support their wellbeing and become well-equipped to achieve their personal goals. 
• Contributing to the management of risk for the person, including raising safeguarding concerns for risk to self, others or from others

About you

• The successful candidate must have experience of working in criminal justice system and delivering mental services, and have good knowledge and understanding of peer support and service user leadership. 
• You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels.
• This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team. You will also benefit from being part of a dynamic growing organisation, committed to the development of its workforce.

“Our team consists of people with a breadth of clinical experiences, we work to make a difference to truly vulnerable people and we pride ourselves on partnership working” - current team member. 
 
The above are a full time (37.5 hrs a week) posts, but we can consider part-time arrangements. 
 
We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the support they need to make positive changes in their recovery journey. You really can make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make changes, when they do not always believe in themselves. 
 
The Criminal Justice service has multiple projects working within courts, prisons, probation and the community, aiming at providing mental health support in all these stages of the criminal justice system. We’ve seen impressive growth over the last two years extending our remit of work and this is something we’re highly motivated to continue. 

Benefits

• You will be part of an organisation that values you. 
• We will seek your input, encourage effort and facilitate growth and opportunity whilst caring about you and your wellbeing.
• You will gain worthwhile personal development training, where you are encouraged to stay and grow to further your career progression with Toget