Life Skills Recovery Worker

City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health is a mental health hospital based at Homerton Hospital that provides assessment and treatment for male and female individuals experiencing acute mental health difficulties. Our vision is to provide optimum care and treatment to aid recovery and promote wellbeing prior to returning back within the community environment.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative persons to take up the post of Life Skills Recovery Worker Band 4 to join our teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to actively form therapeutic, meaningful relationships with patients using a range of interventions/activities to enhance their care and improve their inpatient experience.

This post will require you to work a mixture of shift work (9to5, long days and night shifts).

Please state "three reasons to shortlist me" in the first paragraph of the supporting statement in order to be considered for shortlisting.

This post will require you to work a mixture of shift work (long days and night shifts).

We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!

Further details / informal visits contact

Gbenga Olokuntoye gbenga.olokuntoye@nhs.net

Demonstrate the ability to write a care plan up to CPA level.

Take an active part in team discussion and decisions relating to patient care and treatment and ensure these are carried out or reviewed as required. This includes attendance at Ward Rounds and CPA meetings.

Take an active part in ensuring the service user maintains the highest level of independence possible, protect the service user’s level of dignity and privacy and empower the service user within the constraints of being an employee of the Trust and the legal constraints that may be placed on the service user.

When required carry out increased observation as per Trust policy.

Liaise with other agencies and health professionals as related to the goals of the care plan.

To know every patient within the clinical setting you are working, knowing early relapse indicators and to assist in the deployment of strategies to effectively manage

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.