Recovery Worker – Community Rehabilitation Team

Radioasianfever; Leeds; On-site; GBP 23,184 - 28,336; Full time

Job summary

Radioasianfever is looking for a full-time Recovery Worker to join the Community Rehabilitation Team in Leeds. The role entails delivering key components of care packages to support service users in their recovery journey. This role emphasizes flexibility, enabling individuals to engage with their recovery process actively.

The Recovery Worker will work under the supervision of Senior Rehabilitation Practitioners, liaising with service users and professionals to promote rehabilitation and social inclusion. This position requires a strong recovery ethos and adaptability in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing support to individuals with mental health difficulties.
• Understanding the principles of recovery-oriented practice.
• Effective communication and liaising capabilities with service users and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Deliver components of prescribed care packages under supervision.
• Support service users in their recovery process.
• Liaise effectively with service users and other professionals.

Skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Understanding of mental health recovery processes

Ability to work flexibly

Education

Experience in mental health services

Job description

Recovery Worker – Community Rehabilitation Team
Touchstone

Leeds, West Yorkshire Full Time 25,760 pa

JOB TITLE Recovery Worker

DEPARTMENT Complex Psychosis Pathway Service – Community Rehabilitation Team

BAND Agenda for Change Band 3, starting at £25,760 (37.5 hours per week)

RESPONSIBLE TO Clinical Team Manager/ Touchstone Deputy Lead for Intensive Support Services.

LOCATION Community Rehabilitation Team – Asket Croft, Leeds.

This role is fixed term for up to 3 years, with the possibility of extension.

ABOUT THE SERVICE

The Complex Psychosis Pathway provides a whole system approach to Mental Health Rehabilitation and Assertive Community Treatment in Leeds, which includes Newsam Ward 5 (Level 2 Rehab & relocating to Parkside Lodge), Asket Croft and Asket House inpatient settings (Level 1 Rehab), the Community Rehabilitation Team and Assertive Outreach Team. The pathway also includes rehabilitation practitioners embedded within the Community Hubs providing early rehabilitative and reablement interventions and enabling transitions for service users between Community Services and more intensive Assertive Outreach and Community Rehabilitation Support. These are clinical delivery services.

The pathway includes an out of area / Trust case management role and a mental health placement reviewer for people with complex psychosis who are placed in Level 2 rehabilitation independent hospitals outside of the Trust or in funded residential placements.

In addition, Leeds Recovery College, Arts and Minds and the Volunteers Service are included within the pathway, providing innovative networks supporting social inclusion and recovery ethos, while continuing to serve the citywide populations of Leeds, LYPFT, and care services directorates.

The pathway provides treatment, intervention and vocational opportunities for people and their families living with complex needs, associated with psychosis and with significant reductions in quality of life, described within NICE guidance as “severe and treatment resistant symptoms”. Many people also experience other serious and co‑occurring conditions that severely affect activities of daily living, social functioning, physical health, welfare, and limit vocational opportunities.

The pathway provides a strong recovery ethos, with flexibility for differing levels of need and longer‑term support where necessary, and in the least restrictive environment possible. The pathway aims to provide a whole‑person approach, working together with individuals and their families on agreed goals that improve mental and physical health, welfare, social inclusion and psychological wellbeing that maximises independence and quality of life.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The role of the Recovery Worker is to deliver specific components of prescribed care packages under the direct supervision of Senior Rehabilitation Practitioners and Clinical Leads. The post holder will provide formalised support and assistance to service users in order for them to take control over their own lives and engage actively in their unique recovery process.

We welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental health difficulties and the service encourages the use of the wisdom gained through personal ‘lived’ experience, to inspire hope in others and the belief that recovery is possible for all. Within a relationship of mutuality the peer support model can facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self‑determination, and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles with connection to local communities.

The post holder will be part of the Community Rehabilitation Team and will work into the Level 1 and Level 2 inpatient units and in the community with service users that present with complex needs. The post requires effective liaison with service users, carers, and other professionals and agencies as required. It will involve the provision of psychological‑based care, offering therapeutic time to a defined client group working at all times within the principles of recovery.

The service provision is delivered 7 days per week between the hours of 8 – 18 pm; the post holder will be required to work flexibly over these hours.