Recovery Support Worker

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust is seeking a nursing professional to autonomously lead in delivering high-quality care within a recovery-focused framework. The role emphasizes therapeutic engagement, addressing care needs through planned interventions, and maintaining patient dignity and equality.

You will supervise junior staff, gather data, monitor progress, escalate concerns, and work with the MDT to develop and reviews.

Qualifications

• Role involves delivering high-quality nursing care autonomously within the defined parameters.
• Therapeutic engagement and activities supporting recovery-focused care.
• Address issues promptly in collaboration with the care team.

Responsibilities

• Lead on delivering quality nursing care and ensure fundamentals of care (nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support).
• Support patient care management: data collection, progress monitoring, providing feedback, and in-care reviews.
• Develop and implement care plans with supervision from a Registered Nurse and coordinate with MDT and relatives.

Job description

1. Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading on implementing the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
2. Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support.
3. Supporting the patients management of care needs through:
   • Initial data collection
   • Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress
   • Feedback and discussion
   • Producing reports and in-care reviews
   • Devising a plan of care and interventions supervised by a Registered Nurse.
4. In a junior leadership role leading on and directing junior to staff in providing hands-on care to service users including:
   • Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non-judgmental way.
   • Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of always maintaining the service users respect and dignity and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity.
   • Contributing to the development of care plans that reflect service user needs and relevant patient care documentation working in partnership with service users, wider MDT and friends/relatives/significant others.
   • Escalating any concerns to relevant Health Care Professional.
   • Monitoring and recording service user clinical observations, such as physical observations and vital signs and escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration or that do not fulfil the personal parameters to the relevant professional (Registered Nurse or Doctors). Promote healthy lifestyles and give health promotion advice and support.
   • Implementing the principles of recovery: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to psychological interventions under the guidance of a registered professional.
5. Escort service users, as required, in line with Trust policies.
6. Advocating for service users needs and rights within Trust policy. Encouraging and empowering service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.
7. Supporting the registered nurse to coordinate and prioritise activities within the clinical area.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust