Support Time and Recovery Worker

TN United Kingdom; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established health organization in Cambridge is looking for a dedicated Support Time and Recovery Worker. This role is vital in providing support to adults facing mental health crises, ensuring they receive the necessary care during challenging times. You will work alongside a committed team, utilizing your skills to conduct clinical risk assessments and provide interventions. Join a compassionate organization that values diversity and aims to empower individuals to lead fulfilling lives. If you are passionate about mental health and want to make a difference, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals with serious mental health disorders.
• Ability to provide crisis intervention and support.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical risk assessments and mental health triage.
• Support individuals in crisis with brief interventions.

Skills

Mental Health Support

Crisis Intervention

Clinical Risk Assessment

Triage Skills

Education

Relevant Health or Social Care Qualification

Job description

Support Time and Recovery Worker, Cambridge

We are recruiting for the role of Duty Worker. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in supporting the work of the busy adult locality mental health teams. You will utilise your skills to support service users through periods of crisis and increased distress, being well supported by senior staff oversight.

This post will be working in our newly formed unplanned care team, based within the adult locality team, carrying out an essential function to support the wider team to enable them to carry out their planned treatment visits.

Main duties of the job

As part of the Cambridge Adult Locality Team (CALT) unplanned and crisis care pathway, you will work with people aged 18 and over suffering from serious and enduring mental health disorders. You will provide brief clinical risk and mental health triage, along with short-term contingency planning for patients presenting in crisis.

You will also provide brief distress tolerance interventions and work alongside senior staff to support the wider team for unplanned care needs that arise within the service.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation committed to providing high-quality, compassionate care to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve. We also aim to support and empower individuals to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care, and community settings. These include mental health services for children, adults, and older people, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

We seek high-caliber candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all community sectors, especially from under-represented groups, including people with long-term conditions, ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the stated closing date if sufficient applications are received. We cannot offer sponsorship for all roles; applications from candidates requiring sponsorship may be rejected.

For more information about CPFT, please visit our website.