Band 3 Community Support Recovery Worker - Deaf services
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation TrustSearch for more jobs in Birmingham
Job overview
A rare and exciting opportunity is now available for you to join our Deaf Community Recovery Team. As a Community Recovery Worker you will support our patients holistic needs within a community catchment area covering a third of England. We are a National Deaf tertiary Service blended with a 12 bed mixed inpatient ward based at the The Barberry.
Main duties of the job
- To provide individual support to the Deaf Service users within both inpatient and community settings, in their own homes to promote their Mental Health recovery and independence.
- To support transition to discharge from the inpatient ward and facilitate joint working.
- To positively promote the independent living of service users within the community, facilitate social and leisure activities for service users and to focus on their direct needs.
- To work across across boundaries of care to promote social inclusion and independence and maximise the effectiveness of services within available resources.
- To assist in the provision of quality evidence-based practice, providing advice and support and care for service users with health and social care needs, and their carers within multidisciplinary setting within a wide defined catchment area/locality.
- To be responsible for scheduling and facilitation of therapeutic recovery focused interventions for Deaf BSL users in groups and individually under the supervision of Clinical Nurse Specialist and Team Manager
- Assist in the development and provision of the Deaf Service and working with various organisations to promote the service users recovery.
- Responsible for organising travelling across an extensive catchment area to meet service users within their own communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the Person Specification and Job Description for detailed role information and shortlist requirements.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
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