Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Support Time Recovery Worker
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with the Mental Health of Learning Disability (MHLD) across West Kent.
We are currently looking to recruit two Band 3 Support Time and Recovery Workers.
About the Role
The main elements of community mental health support work focus on collaborative working with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management.
Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community.
Part of the expected role of this post is to assist nursing staff with the effective functioning of the Physical Health Clinics and support the wider MDT Teams with monitoring the implementation of treatment plans in place. Visiting people at their own home as required.
Responsibilities
- To work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users with a Learning disability, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role.
- To provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment helping them to build their own support network.
- To support service users to identify their needs and to assist care co-ordinators to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
- To have the individual service user’s needs as the focus when using the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals.
- To use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.
- To be actively involved in the delivery of Interventions with the support and guidance of the Multi-disciplinary Team.
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About Us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
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Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ben Tomlinson
- Job title: Operational Team Lead
- Email address: ben.tomlinson4@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07707153658
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