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Support Time Recovery Worker

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Dartford

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GBP 1,000 - 3,000

Full time

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Job summary

Join a leading NHS organization as a Support Time Recovery Worker in Dartford. You will work within a dedicated team to provide essential support to service users in their recovery journey, ensuring their needs are prioritized and met within the community. This role involves collaboration with mental health professionals and active participation in care planning, promoting independence and well-being. The position offers competitive pay, including a High-Cost Area Allowance, and the opportunity to contribute to a meaningful mission of delivering excellent care.

Benefits

High Cost Area Allowance

Qualifications

Experience in mental health services.
Understanding of recovery-oriented practices.

Responsibilities

Support service users in their recovery journey.
Assist in planning and evaluating care plans.
Facilitate community integration and access to resources.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Support Time Recovery Worker

The closing date is 01 June 2025

To work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role.
To provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment helping them to build their own support network.
To support service users to identify their needs and to assist care coordinators to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
To have the individual service user's needs at the fore at all times and support the service user to work towards their identified goals.
To use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.
To be actively involved in the delivery of Initial Interventions with the support and guidance of a Psychologist or an Occupational Therapist.

What is High Cost Area Allowance?

The High-Cost Area (HCA) allowance, also referred to as London Weighting, is a payment made to employees who work in London and the surrounding areas.

As this post is based in Dartford, the successful applicant will receive an additional payment each month.

5% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 per year and a maximum payment of £2,121 per year (the agreed annual amount will be divided into 12 equal amounts and paid monthly).

The salary listed is inclusive of the High-Cost Area Allowance.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services that focus on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role.
To provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote recovery and maintain them in their community environment.
To support service users to identify their needs and assist lead HCPs to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
To have the individual service users' needs at the forefront at all times, working to the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals.
To use the agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.
To be actively involved in the delivery of Initial Interventions with the support and guidance of a psychologist or OT.

About us

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 recognized as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

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

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

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Job responsibilities

KEY DELIVERABLES

Working with service users and carers

To act at all times in the best interest of service users within appropriate, transparent boundaries as part of a recovery-oriented mental health service.
To be aware of any Advance Directives made by service users regarding their care and treatment.
To assist in delivering a high standard of support to service users and their carers, promoting their equality, dignity, and mental well-being at all times.
To facilitate service user and carer input into the development of best practice.

Communication

To promote effective communication and relationships with people who are troubled or depressed.
To establish and maintain working relationships with people who have difficulty communicating.
To establish and maintain working relationships with people who lack trust and motivation.

Engagement

To provide advice and information to those who enquire about mental and physical health needs and related services.
To work regularly with people experiencing or having experienced often sad or upsetting personal and/or social situations.
To establish, sustain, and at the appropriate time, disengage from professional relationships with service users, working at their pace with support from the MDT.

Health Promotion/STROT

To provide, or assist service users to access, information on health promotion including a healthy diet, smoking cessation, preventing substance misuse, and the importance of physical exercise.
To work with individuals to facilitate access and engagement in community-based activities, working across boundaries of care and organizations including secondary care, primary care, and third sector.
To promote service users living independently within the community by being aware of available community resources.
To support service users in becoming and sustaining social integration, using graded exposure based on a plan set and agreed with an OT working on STROT.

Practical support

To advise service users about accessing support with housing, financial support, and tax credits.
To enable service users to use appropriate public and other transport links, including assistance with tickets and planning journeys.
To provide regular practical and emotional support to service users and their carers, working with other MDT members to develop independence and dignity.
To support service users in daily living, including practical help, emotional support, and assistance with difficulties.
To empower service users to speak up for themselves and act as their own advocates.

Initial Interventions

To actively listen and help service users make sense of their mental health problems using basic CBT formulation.
To enable people with mental health needs to develop coping strategies based on CBT and mindfulness.
To facilitate service user input into the development of best practice.
To create a comfortable environment for clients to discuss themselves and their emotions.
To help service users identify and prioritize personal recovery goals.
To encourage self-management of mental health problems by providing information and reinforcing coping strategies.
To work under supervision of a Psychologist to deliver interventions within the Initial Intervention pathway.
To contribute to planning, delivering, and monitoring interventions and/or treatments in line with the pathway.
To assist in monitoring progress, functioning, and mental state, and alert appropriate care team members.
To work with an agreed care and recovery support plan, monitoring and reviewing as needed.

Care Planning

To enable service users to develop Personal Support Plans for non-CPA and attend relevant care planning meetings.
To involve service users actively in their care and treatment plans.
To highlight unmet needs to qualified staff for improvement.
To support the transition of service users through statutory services, working closely with other STR Workers.
To work closely with professionals involved in the service user's care.
To serve as a link between the service user and their key worker within their Personal Support Plan.

Working within your organisation

Links with other organisations

To develop good networks and positive relationships with other organizations to help individuals achieve their goals.
To liaise and signpost to other agencies while adhering to confidentiality policies.
To liaise and work closely with the MDT and other mental health professionals across sectors.

Service Review and Development

To help develop systems for monitoring service delivery in line with objectives.
To contribute to planning, delivering, and monitoring interventions with the MDT.
To help develop a culture where individuals are respected and valued.

Administration and security of information

To maintain accurate records in accordance with policies, using appropriate systems.
To maintain confidentiality regarding service users, carers, and families.
To handle sensitive information appropriately.

Personal Development

To maintain quality in own work.
To be responsible for personal development, health, and well-being as per PDP.
To participate in supervision, appraisal, and training.
To reflect on and develop practice through supervision and support.
To manage a caseload responsibly.

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Support Time Recovery Worker

NHS

Dartford

On-site

GBP 1,000 - 3,000

Full time

Job summary

Benefits

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Responsibilities

Skills

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