Night Mental Health Recovery Worker

Social Interest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit organization is seeking a Night Recovery Worker to support individuals with complex mental health needs in a rehabilitation service. This role involves providing tailored support, ensuring residents take medication, and facilitating activities to promote independence. The ideal candidate will be compassionate, resilient, and understanding of mental health challenges. This position offers various benefits including annual leave, training opportunities, and an employee assistance program.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Employer Pension Contribution

Access to discounted tickets

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance Scheme

Cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• Resilient and compassionate individual with a passion for mental health rehabilitation.
• Understanding of the needs of people with complex mental health and other complex needs.
• Ability to use IT systems to record case notes and email relevant people.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored support to residents to help them achieve personal goals.
• Deliver all aspects of service efficiently, including welfare checks and support sessions.
• Initiate appropriate interventions to prevent crises.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

IT skills

Job description

We're looking for a Night Recovery Worker to join our 24/7 supported accommodation service based in Enfield. You will work in a vibrant care and rehabilitation service, offering 21 beds to adults with complex mental health needs. You will join a team which consists of a Service Manager, Deputy Service Manager, a day team of 10, and a night team of 4. You will be a present member of the team on the night shift, with a minimum of 2 people working per shift. We are here to promote independence and give our residents the tools needed to fulfil their lives in the community independently. In this role, you will play a key role in supporting our residents on their journey to recovery, reablement, and rehabilitation, you'll support individuals transitioning from complex care or acute mental health services to a structured rehabilitation setting. Working closely with various teams, you'll help provide tailored, person-centred and trauma informed support for residents to overcome personal challenges, and meet their desired goals/outcomes and support medication compliance, making a real difference every day.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored support to residents/participants to help them achieve their personal goals and outcomes.
• Deliver all required aspects of the service efficiently and consistently, including welfare checks, support sessions, safeguarding monitoring, risk assessments, and involvement in training and development.
• Help design, create, and be part of service led activities which could include games nights, movie nights, cooking, and other activities to bring residents together and promote independence and relationship building.
• Provide support with encouraging residents to take their required medication.
• Ensure service responsibilities and requirements are carried out effectively.
• Initiate appropriate interventions to prevent crisis or other risks.
• Recognise signs of deteriorating mental health, physical health, or other health implications and raise the required alarms as per procedures.
• Ability to stay motivated even during quieter hours, to build rapport and trust with residents and fulfil the requirements of the service.
• Ability and willingness to show flexibility of working patterns, responding to the needs of the communal service and residents.

Qualifications

• Resilient and compassionate individual with a passion for mental health rehabilitation.
• Understanding of the needs of people with complex mental health and other complex needs.
• Ability to use IT systems to record case notes, email relevant people, and use other software required within the role.
• Understanding of the housing and social needs of people with multiple and complex needs.
• Alignment with our values of Ambition, Empowerment, Inclusivity, and Transparency.

Benefits

• 25 days (Full time equivalent) annual leave, increasing with length of service.
• Employer Pension Contribution.
• Eligibility to register with Blue Light Discount Card.
• Access to discounted tickets for music events, shows, sports and more.
• Reflective Practice regular sessions with a therapist provided by an external provider to support Mental Health and Wellbeing at work.
• Training and Development, including access to courses, upskilling, and progression plans.
• Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling.
• Life Assurance Scheme.
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• Annual Staff Awards.
• EDI Ambassador programme.

About Social Interest Group (SIG)

Social Interest Group (SIG) is a not-for-profit organisation providing thousands of people with good‑quality support and care in residential, drop‑in centres, community floating support settings, probation settings, and hospitals. We do so across London, Brighton, Bedfordshire, Luton, Kent and Liverpool. Our goal is to transform lives through empowering change. We believe good care and support improves lives with the vision to create healthier, safer, and more inclusive communities. Join us on our mission to empower independence through trauma‑informed solutions and dynamic partnerships that keep people out of prison, out of hospital and off the streets. Want to know how we work? Watch our short Theory of Change video to see how we support people towards a brighter future: Theory of Change.

Further details can be found on our website here: Theory of Change - Social Interest Group - Social Interest Group.