Support Time Recovery Worker

Job overview
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 .

Main duties of the job
To work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services that focuses on the direct needs of services users working across boundaries of care , organisation and role .
To provide support and give time to allocated group of services users in order to promote recovery and maintain them in their community environment .
To support service users to identify their needs and assist lead HCP`s 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 .

Working for our organisation
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 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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY DELIVERABLES
1. Working with service users and carers
1.1 General
To act at all times in the best interest of service users within appropriate, transparent
boundaries as part of a recovery orientated mental health service.
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
their equality, dignity and mental well being at all times
To facilitate service user and carer input into the development of best practice
1.2 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 in
communicating
To establish and maintain working relationships with people who lack trust and motivation
1.3 Engagement
To provide advice and information to those who enquire about mental and physical health
needs and related services
To regularly work with people who are experiencing or have experience 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 the service users pace with support from the multi-disciplinary
team (MDT)
1.4 Health Promotion/STROT
To provide, or assist service users to access, information on health promotion to include a
health diet; smoking cessation; preventing substance misuse and the importance of physical
exercise
To work with individuals to facilitate access and engagement in a range of leisure and other
community based activities, working across boundaries of care and organisations including
Secondary Care, Primary Care and Third Sector.
To promote service users living independently within the community by having an awareness
of available community resources that can be accessed.
To support service users to become and sustain social integration; this can be done using a
graded exposure based on a plan that is set and agreed with the Occupational Therapist
working on STROT.
1.5 Practical support
To advise service users about who to go or speak to in order to enable them to access
suitable support with housing/accommodation; financial support; tax credits
To enable service users to make use of appropriate public and other forms of transport links
such as purchase of tickets and ability to plan their own journeys
To provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers (as appropriate) in
developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self-respect working in
conjunction with other members of the MDT such as Occupational Therapists.
To provide support with 'daily living' to individuals that might involve practical help,
emotional/psychological support, assistance with any difficulties that may arise.
To empower service users to speak up for themselves and act as their own advocates
1.6 Initial Interventions
To actively listen to help the service user make sense of their mental health problems using
basic CBT formulation model.
Enable people with mental health needs to develop coping strategies, based on CBT and
mindfulness approach.
To facilitate service user input into the development of best practice
To create an atmosphere where clients feel comfortable to talk about themselves and their
emotions
To help the service user identify and prioritise their personal goals for recovery
To encourage self-management of mental health problems by providing information and
reinforcing existing coping strategies
To work under the supervision of a Psychologist to deliver agreed interventions within the
Initial Intervention pathway
To contribute to planning, delivering and monitoring interventions and/or treatments in line
with the Initial Interventions pathway
To assist in monitoring the person's progress,