Band 4 Support Time Recovery Worker - Solihull Early Intervention Team

Job summary

We are currently looking to a recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Recovery Support Worker to join the Solihull Early Intervention Team.

The role will involve offering support to patients in a community and outpatient setting; the applicants must have significant experience of working within a health/social care setting, and it is desirable that you have experience or knowledge of working with Mental Health issues. The post holder will take responsibility for an identified caseload and provide outreach and community follow up to support service users through their recovery using low intensity psychosocial interventions.

You will be working alongside a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team of Nursing, Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy and Psychology to collaboratively set goals with patients to aid their recovery.

Main duties of the job

You will ensure that there are effective care pathways to a range of services that will enhance individual recovery. This will be achieved by ensuring close liaison with identified partners and community organisations including employment /training providers, housing and mental health. You will also provide low intensity psychosocial interventions to service users on caseload. You will be able to signpost services users to the appropriate facilities and provide support.

About us

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.