# Recovery Worker - Trafford Neighbourhood Mental Health Service > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/recovery-worker-trafford-neighbourhood-mental-health-service/67b86072-fb23-49c7-8528-2b4f567eb326 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/recovery-worker-trafford-neighbourhood-mental-health-service/67b86072-fb23-49c7-8528-2b4f567eb326.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-20T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-06T10:01:01.568Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Altrincham/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8082850 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Recovery Worker to join the Trafford Neighbourhood Mental Health Service. The service aims to provide timely access to mental health support, particularly for individuals who may not meet the threshold for specialist services. It focuses on delivering goal-based, time-limited interventions, promoting independence, recovery, and community integration through a trauma-informed and person-centred approach. The service is delivered through multidisciplinary teams, including mental health practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, recovery workers, wellbeing practitioners, pharmacists and peer support workers. It adopts a holistic model, considering psychological, social and physical needs, and works collaboratively with local partners to provide coordinated care. Please note - This role is not eligible for sponsorship unless you meet criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024. ### Main duties of the job As a recovery worker you will be working intensively with service users, enabling them to live their lives and achieve their own goals -  with support from a multi-disciplinary team of nurses,  social workers, psychologists, and medical staff. The post  holder will support individuals in their recovery  through using a variety of interventions to promote independence, functioning and social inclusion. Interventions may involve activities of daily living, vocational and educational aspirations, development of family and social relationships, attending appointments, accessing meaningful activities. The post holder will support services users in a variety of setting, but they will be encouraged to come into the community setting. The role currently operates Monday to Friday between the hours of 9am to 5pm. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - See attached detailed job description and person specification: Staff benefits     Pay Enhancements – 36% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 72% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.   27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years          Excellent pension             Cycle to work scheme    Salary sacrifice car scheme          Wellbeing programme   Blue Light Card Discounts ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to undertake visits over very wide geographical area - to service users homes, clinical meetings at Trust and Non Trust venues, and other community venues relating to your service user. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience working in a mental health care setting. - Experience of working independently on a one to one basis with service users providing interventions promoting recovery. - Experience of assisting individuals in emotional distress - Guidance Score Recognised competency based level 2 / 3 qualification in a relevant subject (e.g. NVQ, B TEC QCF, Apprenticeship), or equivalent demonstrable experience **Desirable** - Experience of working in a mental health setting - Experience of working within a community service ## Documents - [jd & ps (pdf, 288.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10378841) - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.