Support Time Recovery Worker

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust; Coxheath; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in the UK is seeking a Support & Time Recovery Worker to help individuals transition from hospital to community living. You will provide personalised support, work with multidisciplinary teams, and promote independence among service users. Ideal for compassionate professionals dedicated to making a difference in mental health care. Join a diverse organization committed to high-quality care.

Benefits

Exceptional professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Diverse team

Qualifications

• Experience supporting individuals through transitions.
• Ability to promote independence and wellbeing.
• Skills in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with service users to promote independence.
• Support service users in developing daily living skills.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team for safe care.

Skills

Experience in mental health or social care

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to work flexibly and independently

Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion

Job description

We are seeking a compassionate, motivated, and reliable Support & Time Recovery Worker to join the Review and Resettlement Team. You will play a vital role in helping individuals transition from hospital to community living, working across a wide geographical area to provide personalised, recovery-focused support.

In This Role, You Will

• Work 1:1 or 2:1 with service users to promote independence and wellbeing.
• Support people to develop daily living skills, build community connections, and achieve their recovery goals.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, high-quality care.
• Travel to meet service users admitted to out-of-area and their home communities during transition.

We are looking for someone with experience in mental health or social care, excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to work flexibly and independently. A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion is essential.

If you are passionate about making a difference and supporting people to live fulfilling, independent lives, we would love to hear from you.

You will support the complex Care Coordinator with the discharge planning process for patients admitted out of area, funded by the Mental OATS panel.

The role will involve working as a member of the Review and Resettlement Team and being actively involved in the discharge planning process of all patients to improve the patient journey, minimise patient delays.

Working under the supervision of the Complex Care Coordinator to collaborate with other professionals in contributing towards discharge planning.

You will be responsible for supporting the Complex care Coordinator with complex discharges and supporting the patients to settle in their new environment for a minimum period of 3 months and facilitating transition back to Community Services.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day. We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.

Our vision is where we want to be in the future. To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alice Sigfrid Job title: Senior Clinical Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07887927135