Recovery Pathway Worker

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in the UK is seeking candidates to facilitate service user leave and support their recovery planning. The role involves escorting patients, reporting on leave, and engaging with various stakeholders. Experience in a mental health setting is desirable. This position offers generous annual leave and an excellent pension plan.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in escorting patients and managing leave processes within a mental health setting is desirable.
• Relevant experience outside the NHS may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and enable service user leave within a therapeutic framework.
• Escort patients as required and apply relevant skills.
• Plan and report on service user leave; monitor therapeutic leave use.

Job description

Overview

The post holder is expected to work over a 7 day period with service users in facilitating and enabling leave to ensure that therapeutic objectives are attained as part of the service users recovery and progress towards discharge.

The post holder will have the necessary skills and competencies in escorting patients and will also plan and report on individual service user leave and provide information and data to monitor use of therapeutic leave across the service.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and enable service user leave within a therapeutic framework to support recovery and discharge planning.
• Escort patients as required and apply relevant skills and competencies.
• Plan and report on individual service user leave; provide information and data to monitor the use of therapeutic leave across the service.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience in escorting patients and managing leave processes within a mental health setting is desirable.
• We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate salary on appointment.

Organisation and Location

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 staff and delivers services from more than 122 locations. We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world’s most innovative places to live and work, with a mix of countryside and vibrant urban areas.

Wherever you go you will experience a friendly northern welcome with people known for warmth and generosity. Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills, and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. For information on the checks required, please visit the NHS Employers website.

The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services, either as a service user or a carer.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve and are committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.

If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information

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• + Pay Enhancements
• + 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• + Excellent pension
• + Cycle to work scheme
• + Salary sacrifice car scheme
• + Wellbeing programme
• + Blue Light Card Discounts
• + fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)