Recovery Support Worker

West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.

Job overview

If you are looking for a rare and exciting opportunity and you have a particular interest in Forensic community services, then this is the position for you.

he post holder will join an already established wider Occupational Therapy service and will be based within the Specialist Forensic Community team.

As a recovery support worker you will be managed by the Occupational Therapy team working across medium and low secure services, accountable to the Head of AHP and Rehabilitation.

A core part of the role will involve facilitating group activities with service users in the community, working with individuals to facilitate their engagement skills in their local area. Considerable focus will be on transitions for service users between in-patient and community settings in the locality.

This will entail in-reach work into the inpatient settings and supporting the service users to move out of long term secure care into various supported packages of care, which might include hostels or independent living. The role will consist of facilitating groups across the different hubs London. The role will also involve supporting community service users step down in levels of accommodation or discharge to local community mental health teams,

Main duties of the job

• To support service users to identify their needs, interests and aspirations and work towards their identified goals.
• To actively promote healthy lifestyles and behaviours.
• To plan and deliver a range of diversional activities that meet service users' needs and assist the clinical team in the assessment of the service user's mental health needs.
• To support the clinical team in providing a therapeutic environment and structuring a service user's day, planning and delivering appropriate diversional activities and engaging with service users.
• To facilitate group and individual activities in a range of environments - ward, site, and community.
• To support service users with involvement and participation in activity and their treatment, as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Support clinical caseload under the direction of an occupational therapist.
• Support occupational therapist with input into standardised assessments for ADL reports, functional axe, and CPA reports.
• To ensure documentation is accurate and reflective.
• Diaries and stats are outcome on RIO.

Further duties outlined on attached candidate pack.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed. The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you are looking for a rare and exciting opportunity and you have a particular interest in Forensic community services, then this is the position for you.

The Forensic Services are based at St Bernard's Hospital on the Ealing site in London and comprises of a number of specialist areas including Women's and Men's inpatient services at both low and medium security including community services.

Please Note : As this role is based on a male-only ward and involves working closely with male service users who may require support in personal care, physical health needs, and activities in a sensitive and secure environment, male applicants are preferred for this position under a genuine occupational requirement . This is in line with the Equality Act 2010, which permits a gender-specific requirement for roles where it is necessary for the position's nature or the nature of the services provided. The Trust is working to ensure a balance in staffing to meet the needs of male service users effectively and provide an appropriate environment for both staff and patients. As such, this vacancy is intended to contribute to this effort.

The post holder will join an already established wider Occupational Therapy service and will be based within the Specialist Forensic Community team.

As a recovery support worker you will be managed by the Occupational Therapy team working across medium and low secure services, accountable to the Head of AHP and Rehabilitation.

A core part of the role will involve facilitating group activities with service users in the community, working with individuals to facilitate their engagement skills in their local area. Considerable focus will be on transitions for service users between in-patient and community settings in the locality.

This will entail in-reach work into the inpatient settings and supporting the service users to move out of long term secure care into various supported packages of care, which might include hostels or independent living.

Successful applicants will need to consider how to support service user's engagement in meaningful roles and interests within the restrictions of their legal sections.

You will carry a caseload and have responsibilities to provide a range of activities and community based interventions that develop and maintain service user' skills in line with recovery principles and practice i.e. social integration and leisure management.

We have strong links with education so service users can gain the qualifications that they need to develop their skills and CV's and move into external work and educational options.

As an Occupational Therapy Service we have a strong commitment to CPD within the trust and provide a range of opportunities for staff with the expectation that learning is shared and clinical excellence is achieved. Supervision of students is expected.

At interview you may be offered other available posts within the trust. Full time and part time hours will be considered.

We expect and welcome informal enquiries and particularly visits to the service prior to interview for information or to arrange a visit please contact

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

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Desirable criteria

Experience

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Knowledge

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Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.

We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to West London NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, you will be required to undergo a pre-employment checks which can take between 4-8 weeks . After which your information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR ).

Please ensure you include email addresses for your referees which MUST be at supervisory or managerial capacity covering the last 3 years of employment to date to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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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.

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