Recovery Worker

**Are you looking for a meaningful job, helping people with mental health problems improve their well being?**

This is a full-time role of 35 hours per week. The annual salary is £19,380 per annum.

**Benefits** of working at Restore include: EAP, Individual Training Budget, Pensions, Occasional working from home, Childcare Vouchers, Travel Loan, Eye Care Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, 33 days' holiday, 4 weeks' upaid sabbatical leave after 5 years' service.

**See the full job description for more details.**

Applicants must submit a **cover letter**, detailing how they fulfil the essential and desirable requirements of the post.

**About Restore**
Restore works in Oxfordshire with people who have severe and enduring mental health problems. We know that everyone has talents and abilities, and the capacity to make a valuable contribution to the community. We believe that people with mental health problems have the right to work, the right to the support they need to gain employment and lead fulfilling lives. We also believe that the stigma associated with mental health problems damages the whole community and in all we do, we work to challenge this discrimination.

Restore provides **Recovery** **Groups** and a **Coaching** **Service.** Coaching provides one to one support enabling members (service users) to achieve their aims. Restore's coaching activities focus on supporting people to achieve paid work, after a period of illness, to start volunteering or start or return to education. Some coaches are embedded within Recovery Groups, and others work within hospital or community settings. Recovery Groups provide members with the opportunity to work on their journey of recovery together through therapeutic activity such as gardening, woodwork, catering or craft based activities.

**Specific responsibilities include**:

- Encouraging service users to function independently and set positive, realistic goals for themselves as a means to improving their quality of life
- Assisting and monitoring the effectiveness of the project
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant and Safety legistlation

**NB **Please see the Job Description for full details.

**Person Specification**
**Essential Requirements**
- A positive attitude towards people with mental health problems, in particular people’s ability to develop and change
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with people on all levels. Ability to work with challenging behaviours and people with complex needs through assertive, respectful and appropriate support.
- Awareness of and commitment to all aspects of anti-discriminatory practice
- Ability to work on own initiative, to prioritise, organise work and meet deadlines
- Ability to motivate others
- Ability to keep accurate and up to date records

**Desirable Requirements**
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems
- Experience in gardening and/or woodwork and/or craft.
- Experience of group work
- Knowledge of mental health services and systems
- Knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation

**Other Information**
- This post will be on a 1 month notice period.
- Willing to undertake evening and weekend work when required