Band 4 Recovery Coordinator (Intensive/Crisis Team) - Devizes

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust in Devizes is seeking a Recovery Coordinator for the North Wiltshire Intensive Team based at Green Lane Hospital. The role is full-time, with flexibility to consider alternatives.

The team provides assessment and home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission, relapse prevention, and short-term therapy, with a shift pattern 08:30–22:00, seven days a week.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health or Psychology degree with relevant experience.
• Enthusiastic, able to work with people and families in distress due to mental health crisis.
• Capable of working under pressure and within a non-exclusion policy context.

Responsibilities

• Join North Wiltshire Intensive Team as Recovery Coordinator.
• Provide assessment and home treatment as an alternative to hospital admission.
• Assist with relapse prevention and short-term therapy work.
• Facilitate discharge from hospital where appropriate.
• Be available for shift patterns 08:30–22:00, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.

Skills

People skills with service users

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health

Psychology degree

Job description

We are looking for a Recovery Coordinator for North Wiltshire Intensive Team based at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes. The position is offering full time hours although alternatives would be considered.

We are ideally looking for someone who has successfully undertaken the NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health, or a Psychology Degree with sufficient experience working within acute mental health. The applicant will need to be enthusiastic and have experience of working with people and families in distress due to mental health crisis and are able to work under pressure. The North Wiltshire Intensive team works to promote recovery and operates a non-exclusion policy.

Right to Work in the UK: This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a suitably experienced/qualified recovery coordinator, to join the North Wiltshire Intensive Team.

The Intensive Team is part of the North Wiltshire Access services.

The Intensive Team provides assessment and home treatment to individuals and their carers as an alternative to hospital admission, relapse prevention, short term therapy work and help provide facilitated discharge from hospital.

The team operates 0830 - 2200, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, as such the successful candidate will be expected to be able to undertake a shift pattern of working.

Mental Health Workers in this team, offer a variety of psychosocial skills to service users, whilst working under the guidance of registered practitioners there is also the expectation of lone working at times. The Intensive team has a shared caseload so Mental Health Workers are not required to provide care co-ordination.