Job Description

Link Team Engagement Worker


Do you enjoy the challenge of working with clients experiencing multiple disadvantages? Are you an autonomous and innovative practitioner? Are you interested in joining a multi-agency cross-sector partnership team?



The Link Team works with individuals experiencing multiple disadvantages, including complex mental health difficulties and homelessness, and who face significant barriers to accessing and engaging with support. We are seeking a motivated practitioner who can demonstrate the relational skills required to reach and assertively engage with those furthest from services. The successful candidates will be working within the Link Team and alongside a range of agencies to find creative solutions for individuals, which includes assisting and challenging existing practices, sharing learning and helping to influence the way services are designed and delivered.

The Link Team

is funded by NHS England and is a multi-agency partnership including Second Step, St Mungos, BDP, AWP Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Bristol City Council. The team has adopted a multi-disciplinary model, including engagement workers, a peer worker, a mental health practitioner (band 6), a social worker, and a team manager. This service is designed to complement rather than replace or supersede existing local provision. The service works with a group of 30 individuals who are both street homeless, or at imminent risk of homelessness; and experiencing severe emotional distress associated with a mental health problem (which may or may not have been given a formal diagnosis). The Link Team aims to improve engagement for service users, creating a bridge between individuals and the wide range of expertise across the system, whilst providing person-centred, trauma-informed care at every stage of the pathway.



For more information please contact sam.wilson@linkteam.org.uk or call 07508942656

Closing date: Thursday 9th October 2025

Interview dates(s): Friday 17th October 2025

For more information and to apply please see our website

www.second-step.co.uk.

Second Step is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community and from people who have personal experience of using mental health services. Unfortunately, Second Step is unable to sponsor applicants from outside the UK.


The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.