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Recovery Support Workers, Waking Nights (Mental Health) x 4 - Recovery House

TN United Kingdom

Birmingham

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GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Full time

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Job summary

An innovative service in Birmingham is seeking Recovery Support Workers for Waking Nights. This role is crucial in providing high-quality, person-centered care to individuals in mental health crisis. You will work alongside a dedicated team to create a welcoming and safe environment, ensuring compliance with CQC standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in mental health support and a commitment to the Recovery model. Join a diverse team that values lived experiences and offers comprehensive training and support. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Benefits

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
PayCare Healthcare Cover
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Comprehensive Training Programme

Qualifications

  • Experience in delivering services to CQC standards.
  • Knowledge of the Recovery model of mental health support.

Responsibilities

  • Provide 24/7 support to users of the Recovery House.
  • Ensure compliance with CQC standards and deliver person-centered care.

Skills

Mental Health Support
Crisis De-escalation
Person-Centered Care
Relationship Building

Education

Experience in Mental Health
CQC Standards Knowledge

Job description

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Recovery Support Workers, Waking Nights (Mental Health) x 4 - Recovery House, Birmingham

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Client:

Birmingham Mind

Location:

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Job Category:

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

08.05.2025

Expiry Date:

22.06.2025

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Job Description:

The Recovery House is a brand new, exciting, and innovative service for Birmingham Mind and is an opportunity to create a flagship standard of support and care for those in mental health crisis. The Recovery House is commissioned by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust and is part of their Urgent Care pathway. Working closely with the Recovery House Team, the role is pivotal to the effective and safe delivery of the service.

About the role

The Recovery Support Worker (Waking Nights) will work as part of a team in our regulated serviced and is an important role to the delivery of recovery-based and prevention services within Birmingham Mind. The post is central to providing 24/7 support to users of the Recovery House. This role is specifically to provide evening and overnight staffing for the Recovery House service.

You will support the Waking Night team in providing a continuous and safe delivery of support and always ensuring high-quality and person-centred care. You will ensure that compliance and adherence to CQC standards is upheld and provide appropriate information to managers when requested.

You will work in a person-centred way alongside colleagues and NHS clinical partners to de-escalate mental health crisis and help service users to return home. You will be pivotal in the provision of a welcoming, calm, and safe environment.

About you

You will need to be skilful in quickly developing strong relationships with users of the service and able to support the de-escalation of crisis and the provision of a calm and supportive environment, delivering person centred interventions.

We are looking for someone who is experienced in the delivery of services to CQC standards in a regulated residential or supported living environment. Experienced in mental health illness, either personally or professionally, you will have previously worked in partnership with key stakeholders and partner organisations.

The successful candidate will have knowledge and commitment to the “Recovery” model of mental health support, be experienced in delivering person-centred care.

Staff benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, PayCare, which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme that includes free counselling, a cycle to work scheme, and a comprehensive training programme.

Birmingham Mind is extremely proud to have a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities that we work with. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges as their perspectives enrich our teams. We are also committed to changing the ethnic diversity of our management team and particularly encourage applicants from minority communities to apply for this role.

Our people are key to the success of the organisation, and we are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. We welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

Closing date for applications is Sunday 8 June 2025

Interviews will take place week commencing Monday 23 June 2025

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