Recovery Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit 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 as part 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 andfacilitating 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.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ – we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.