Job summary
The Hope Service offers a PTSD care pathway for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. We also support people with an asylum seeking background living in Initial Accommodation (IA) hotels across the region. We are looking for part time Recovery Coordinators to join our service, working across Bristol, S.Glos and N.Somerset.
This role will include supporting service users to strengthen coping skills and build resilience; sign post to local support services and help service users overcome barriers to accessing mental health support. We are particularly keen to build on the good working partnerships we have with local voluntary sector services.
Our service supports with people with a refugee/asylum seeking background and both experience and a passion for working in this field are essential. People with lived experience of seeking asylum are particularly invited to apply. In return we can offer the opportunity to be part of a dynamic and effective team and opportunities to access specialist training, supervision and support.
Main duties of the job
The service provides psychological assessment and treatment for service users with a presentation of PTSD, the majority of whom are seeking asylum and living with various other complexities e.g. insecure housing, poverty and isolation.
The care pathway we deliver includes Phase 1 Stabilisation through 'Moving on After Trauma' (MOAT) groups followed by 1:1 Trauma Therapy. Recovery Coordinators will support service users to access this care pathway by developing 1:1 relationships with people and signposting to local services and support.
One of the key roles of the Recovery Coordinators will be to help develop and strengthen relationships with local voluntary sector partners and work together to develop targeted wellbeing initiatives within local communities.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Summary:
- To enable and assist service users to meet their daily health, mental health, social care and wellbeing needs, in line with their person centred recovery goals.
- To facilitate engagement with other services, both NHS and 3rd Sector/voluntary.
- To contribute to the ongoing assessment, delivery and review of interventions and activities, against the identified recovery goals.
- To act as the care/recovery coordinator for allocated service users.
- To support the development and delivery of defined wellbeing initiatives for a wider group of service users.
The team works primarily from Gloucester House, Southmead Hospital but the role will involve some remote working and community based work across the area.
For further information email: Mary.Griggs@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Summary:
- To enable and assist service users to meet their daily health, mental health, social care and wellbeing needs, in line with their person centred recovery goals.
- To facilitate engagement with other services, both NHS and 3rd Sector/voluntary.
- To contribute to the ongoing assessment, delivery and review of interventions and activities, against the identified recovery goals.
- To act as the care/recovery coordinator for allocated service users.
- To support the development and delivery of defined wellbeing initiatives for a wider group of service users.
The team works primarily from Gloucester House, Southmead Hospital but the role will involve some remote working and community based work across the area.
For further information email: Mary.Griggs@nhs.net
Person Specification
Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential
- Strong understanding of recovery principles
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to form and sustain working relationships with service users and carers
- Ability to deliver specific outcome focused interventions
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Well developed IT skills
- Experience of working with people seeking asylum and refugees in health, social care of voluntary sector capacity
- Able to travel freely and flexibly across the local area in order to work effectively with service users
- Willingness to take part in activities which support team working
Desirable
- Experience of mental health services as a user, carer, volunteer or worker
- Lived experience of the asylum process
- Experience of working cross culturally, including working with interpreters
Person Specification
Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential
- Strong understanding of recovery principles
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to form and sustain working relationships with service users and carers
- Ability to deliver specific outcome focused interventions
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Well developed IT skills
- Experience of working with people seeking asylum and refugees in health, social care of voluntary sector capacity
- Able to travel freely and flexibly across the local area in order to work effectively with service users
- Willingness to take part in activities which support team working
Desirable
- Experience of mental health services as a user, carer, volunteer or worker
- Lived experience of the asylum process
- Experience of working cross culturally, including working with interpreters
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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