Intermediate Recovery Support Worker

Job overview

This role is for a Band 4 Recovery Support Worker, working closely care coordinators and a full MDT in the community team of nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists etc.

This role is an exciting opportunity to which allows you to use initiative, working aspart of a close-knit team. If you haven’t worked in the community before, this may be your chance to take a new direction in your career, if you have worked in the community before, you will know the flexibility, and variety that community work offers.

In this role you will be expected to facilitate Recovery through activities and be creative in the way you work with service users. Even more so we want our staff to engage with service users and understand their interests and passions and adapt working styles to suit them. RSWs also do 1:1 work with clients, in community settings, care homes, supported living environment and in client’s own homes. This includes focusing on work surrounding self-care, productivity, activities geared at social inclusion (getting into employment or college) and leisure (participating in interests or group activities).

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role include working with service users in the community and facilitating activities that foster inclusion, self esteem, daily living skills and general wellbeing. We are always looking for new and creative ways to engage service users in the community and are open to RSW’s input in this area.

The other main duties include 1:1 work which could be anything from trying to motivate a service user to engage in social activities, such as taking them out to a coffee shop on a weekly basis, supporting service users to health care appointments, benefits, getting them involved in fitness, the gym, or sports, looking at people’s interests and supporting them to engage in these. Social inclusion would be a main part of the role, making connections and links in the community in order to integrate and support our service users to engage in meaningful activity.

Working with service users in the community, some of who may have forensic history, means risk assessment is one of the key areas to keep in mind. We are looking for someone thorough in their skills to risk assess, as well as use themselves therapeutically through rapport with service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Following an assessment, to provide practical and recovery focused support to service users and carers as described in their care plan.
• Working with care coordinators or lead clinicians to provide clearly defined recovery focused interventions, in line with care packages.
• To attend and actively participate in team meetings/care plan review meeting and team training as appropriate.
• To positively promote and support independent living for service users in the community by maintaining extensive knowledge and links with the community resources and actively supporting service users to access them.
• To develop a rapport with service users based upon professional support and collaboration but within appropriate boundaries.
• To provide regular and practical support to service users and carers to maintain dignity and independence.
• To enable service users to acquire daily living skills: “living ordinary lives” (e.g. shopping and cooking).
• To help service users to gain access to resources to include benefits and welfare rights.
• To help service users to access information on health promotion.
• To help service users with gaining skills in accessing physical health services and monitoring their health needs in the community.
• To help identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the client’s progress, level of functioning and mental state and updating the care coordinator or other staff involved in the care of the client.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.