Trainee Multidisciplinary Advocate - Rethink Mental Illness
- Exeter, Torbay, Devon
- Full Time
- £24,544.91 per annum
Job Description
At Rethink Advocacy, we believe everyone deserves to have their voice heard — especially those who face barriers in navigating care, rights, and decision‑making. If you’re passionate about empowering people, eager to learn, and ready to grow into a skilled advocate, this could be the perfect role for you.
This role is a full-time role based in Exeter and the Devon & Torbay Surrounding areas. It requires that the successful candidate is able to travel to appointments within this area throughout their working day.
About the role
As a Trainee Multi‑Disciplinary Advocate, you will work across 2 of our local Advocacy Teams. The first Team has a fixed base at Langdon Secure Hospital on Exeter Road in Dawlish. The second Team works remotely across Devon & Torbay as part of the Devon Advocacy Consortium (DAC) whose headquarters are based in Exeter. You’ll support people with a wide range of needs — including mental health conditions, learning disabilities, and physical or sensory disabilities — to express their wishes, understand their rights, and be part of decisions that affect their lives.
You don’t need previous advocacy experience. What you do need is compassion, commitment, and a willingness to learn.
We’ll support you through:
- Full enrolment onto the Level 4 Independent Advocacy Practice qualification.
- Protected study time.
- Shadowing, observation, supervision and ongoing training.
- Gradual progression to holding your own caseload.
- Development in instructed and non‑instructed advocacy approaches.
Once qualified, you’ll move into a full Multi‑Disciplinary Advocate role.
What you’ll be doing
- Empowering people to understand their options, rights, and decisions being made about their care.
- Delivering advocacy across community and care settings, including homes, hospitals, secure units, and supported living.
- Learning and working across three statutory advocacy remits (Independent Mental Health Advocacy IMHA, Independent Care Act Advocacy ICAA and Independent Health Complaints Advocacy IHCA).
- Building strong professional relationships with the people you support.
- Maintaining accurate case records and ensuring safeguarding concerns are appropriately raised.
- Working flexibly in the field — managing your own diary and travel across Devon & Torbay.
- Contributing to service promotion, community awareness, and occasional projects.
What we’re looking for
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Are passionate about empowering others and supporting their rights.
- Can communicate clearly and sensitively with a wide range of people.
- Are organised, self‑motivated and confident managing your own workload.
- Are willing to learn and complete the Level 4 qualification.
- Can work within clear professional boundaries and uphold confidentiality.
- Have strong values around fairness, respect, equity and person‑led support.
- Can travel throughout Devon and Torbay for client visits, training and meetings.
This is a field‑based role with homeworking for admin. You’ll travel regularly across Devon and Torbay.
If this sounds like you, apply now!
Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?
At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:
- Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
- Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
- Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform.
- Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days.
- Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities.
- Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes.
- Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us, and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.
Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
For further information and to apply please go here, Trainee Multidisciplinary Advocate | Dayforce Jobs.
Job Details
- OrganisationOther Organisations
- Work LocationExeterTorbayDevon
- Work Postcode
Exeter and the Devon & Torbay Surrounding areas
- Reference
EK2002
- Occupational GroupSocial Care & HealthYouth & Community
- Salary Details
£24,544.91 per annum
- Job TermPermanent
- Appointment TypeFull Time
- Hours
35 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
- Closing Date
25/06/2026
- DBS Check Required
Yes