Support Time Recovery Worker

Job summary

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

We are looking for a Band 3 Support Time Recovery Worker to join our Community Mental Health Team, based in Maidstone.

You will 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. You will provide support and give time to the allocated group of service users in order to promote recovery and support them in their community environment and provide support to service users to identify their needs and assist clinicians to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.

You will 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, using the agreed values and skills to underpin day to day work.

The role will give you the opportunity to be actively involved in the delivery of psychologically informed interventions with the support and guidance of a Psychologist or Occupational Therapist.

Main duties of the job

Work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users, working across shared pathways in Mental Health Together PLUS.

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.

Support service users to identify their needs and to assist clinicians to plan, implement and evaluate individuals care plans.

Have the individual service user's needs at the forefront at all times and support the service user to work towards their identified goals.

Use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.

Be actively involved in the delivery of psychology informed interventions.

About us

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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Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

23-29 Albion Place

Maidstone

ME14 5TS

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

23-29 Albion Place

Maidstone

ME14 5TS

Employer's website

https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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