Night Recovery Worker
Mental Health Matters
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Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Qualifications
- Experienced mental health crisis worker.
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, and nights.
- Strong understanding of complex mental health needs.
- Strong emotional intelligence and understanding of complex mental health needs.
Responsibilities
- Provide non-clinical crisis support.
- Ensure services are safe, effective, and responsive.
- Mobilise new services as needed.
Skills
Job description
Mental Health Matters offers a night and shift‑based role for experienced mental health crisis workers. The position is based in Sheffield and is part of a new 24/7 mental health service delivering support to those recently discharged from hospital and to reduce A&E attendance.
Both full‑time and part‑time night shifts are available, including evenings, weekends and occasional nights.
Sheffield, England
You will provide non‑clinical crisis support, ensuring services are safe, effective and responsive to individual needs. The role requires you to operate in an honest, non‑judgemental manner and to mobilise new services where possible.
You are an experienced mental health crisis worker, a strong team player, and a good advocate for mental health. You can work shifts that include evenings, weekends and nights, and you possess excellent communication skills, data‑recording experience, and the ability to engage with a wide range of individuals. You demonstrate strong emotional intelligence and an understanding of complex mental health needs.
Mental Health Matters is a national charity committed to innovative, life‑changing support for individuals and communities. We focus on people‑first values for both the workforce and service users.
- Competitive salaries with annual pay review
- 25 days of annual leave (increasing with length of service) plus bank holidays
- Enhanced occupational sick pay
- Workplace pension scheme access
- Family‑friendly and flexible working arrangements to support work‑life balance
- Wellbeing offer – including EAP, virtual GP service and resources
- Life assurance and free will‑writing service
- Blue Light Card and charity worker discounts
- Access to tickets for Good and employee recognition schemes
- Tailored induction programme and bespoke personal development and career pathways
Apply via the online application form. Ensure you answer all the shortlisting questions to demonstrate how you meet the person specification criteria. Add any supporting information as required.
We are an equal opportunities employer and value diversity. We may ask for personal information during the application, but everything is used to ensure fair and accessible opportunities.
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact: Jackie Redding – jredding@mhm.org.uk
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