Support Time Recovery Worker | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Ramsgate; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Kent is looking for Band 3 Support Time and Recovery Workers to support individuals with Learning Disabilities across the East Kent area. The role involves providing direct support to service users, facilitating their recovery, and promoting independence through community engagement. Applicants should be passionate about mental health and skilled in building relationships within a multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• To be aware of any Advance Directives made by service users in respect of their care and treatment.
• Promote equality, dignity and mental wellbeing.
• Facilitate service user access to information on health promotion.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to promote recovery and maintain service users in their community.
• Collaborate with service users to help them achieve independence and self-management.
• Assist nursing staff with the effective functioning of health clinics.

Job description

Overview

Exciting opportunity to work with the Mental Health of Learning Disability (MHLD) across Kent. We are recruiting Band 3 Support Time and Recovery Workers for the East Kent area (based in the Beacon in Thanet).

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team providing secondary mental health services focused on the direct needs of service users with a Learning Disability, across boundaries of care, organisation and role.
• Collaborate with service users to promote engagement and the attainment of independence and self-management; establish therapeutic relationships to address recovery goals and help access resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community.
• Assist nursing staff with the effective functioning of Physical Health Clinics and support the wider MDT Teams with monitoring the implementation of treatment plans; visit people in their own homes as required.
• Provide support to allocated service users to promote recovery and maintain them in their community environment, helping them build their own support networks.
• Identify service user needs and assist care coordinators to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans; keep the individual service user’s needs at the fore and work to the recovery model to support goal attainment.
• Use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work and be actively involved in the delivery of interventions with the support and guidance of the MDT.
• Facilitate service user and carer input into the development of best practice and promote effective communication and relationships with people who are troubled or depressed, have difficulty communicating, or lack trust and motivation.
• Provide information and guidance to those enquiring about mental and physical health needs and related services.
• Encourage engagement in leisure and other community-based activities across boundaries of care and organisations including Secondary Care, Primary Care and Third Sector services.

About KMPT

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 employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, serving diverse communities across rural and urban areas. You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

Our strategy and culture

Our strategy: Our mission is what we set out to do every day. We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people. Our vision: To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Job details

To be aware of any Advance Directives made by service users in respect of their care and treatment; to assist in delivering a high standard of support to service users and their carers, promoting equality, dignity and mental wellbeing; to facilitate service user and carer input into the development of best practice; to promote effective communication and relationships with people who are troubled or depressed; to establish, sustain and disengage from professional relationships with service users at the service user’s pace with MDT support; to provide or assist service users to access information on health promotion (health diet, smoking cessation, preventing substance misuse, physical exercise); to work with individuals to facilitate access and engagement in leisure and community-based activities across boundaries of care and organisations including Secondary Care, Primary Care and Third Sector services.

Additional information

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025.