Band 4 FIRST Support, Time & Recovery Worker

Are you rewarded by supporting people to make positive changes in their lives? Are you seeking a new, engaging opportunity that allows you to utilise and further develop your skills? If so, we are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Support, Time & Recovery (STR) workers to join our Forensic Intensive Recovery Support Team (FIRST).

Encourage, inspire, motivate and empower service users, working alongside them, colleagues and external providers to promote their recovery, enable them to make a successful transition from in-patient to a community setting, and to maintain them in their community environment, helping them to build their own support needs.

To work as part of a team that provides specialist mental health services to service users with complex needs in a community setting, focusing on the direct needs of the service users and working across boundaries of care, organisation and roles. Service users are clients of specialist services in Secure and Complex Care and may be subject to Community Treatment Order or conditional discharge under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice.

The Successful Candidate Will

• Be responsible for developing services and establishing activities for both groups and individual service users that align with their specific needs and recovery goals.
• Support service users to identify their needs and to assist care co-ordinators to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
• Have the individual service user’s needs to the fore at all times, working to the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals.

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ellie Ashcroft Job title: Recovery Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07985 882 673