Veterans Recovery Support Specialist

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Uphill; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust is seeking a Community Support Worker (Recovery) to support veterans and their families, covering Dorset & Somerset. You will help people in recovery, build trusting relationships, and assist with access to community-based services.

The role involves working with a multidisciplinary team to promote recovery, wellbeing, and social inclusion, with a focus on compassionate care in the community setting across the Southwest of England.

Responsibilities

• Forming compassionate, recovery-focused, therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers, supporting them to manage their mental health needs in a community setting.
• Engaging in the full range of ongoing needs assessment processes required by the team, including mental state, dynamic clinical risk, spiritual and cultural needs, and emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing.
• Supporting service users to manage their finances and / or housing needs.
• Empowering service users to self-manage aspects of their ongoing treatment, such as medication, diet and lifestyle, physical health and general wellbeing.
• Depending on the team, key activities may also include undertaking the role of Care Coordinator for service users who have been assessed as presenting relatively low to moderate levels of clinical complexity and risk, under the guidance and supervision of registered clinicians.

Job description

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust is seeking a Community Support Worker (Recovery) to support veterans and their families, covering Dorset & Somerset. You will help people in recovery, build trusting relationships, and assist with access to community-based services.

The role involves working with a multidisciplinary team to promote recovery, wellbeing, and social inclusion, with a focus on compassionate care in the community setting across the Southwest of England.