Richard Atkins

I’m a young man looking for work in a Mental Health Care setting. I’ve have had some experience of working with Mind a few years ago in Grounds Maintenance 

I have recovered from a mental illness myself and so whilst I must confess that I do not have a Health Care Qualification, I am I feel, an expert by experience and I am very keen to offer all I have learnt  to help others on their road to recovery and so the part time position  of support 

I am well educated and have 10 GCSE, 3 A levels and a Certificate of Education from Birkbeck University and so feel capable to handle any administrative duties that go with the position too.

Prior to my illness I worked in Graphic Design and along the way and following my recovery , I  have worked in various  positions , including warehousing, and grounds maintenance as previously mentioned. 

I am now keen to begin to develop a career and with my lived experience I believe that  working in Mental Health in the community for a caring organisation could be a very good beginning for me. 

Anyway, with all that in mind, please see attached my CV which shows what I have done career –wise although it doesn’t show my enthusiasm to do more, starting with  working with you .

 I do hope that this will be of interest and look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours sincerely, 

Lived experience, operations director, experience of an office environment, working with people, 

Birkbeck collage Georphay