Recovery Worker

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

As a Recovery Worker, you will contribute to successfully rehabilitating and reintegrating our residents and participants back into the community. Providing pathways, support and appropriate interventions that will enable successful resettlements and work with internal and external partners and agencies to achieve desired outcomes.

Rota: Early Shift: 8am to 4pm, Late Shift, 12:30am to 8pm. 7 days a week with rotating rota including two day break.

**ABOUT US**

The Social Interest Group (SIG) believes that good care and support make for better lives. Our values of ambition, empowerment, transparency, and inclusivity drive everything we do. Our mission is to empower people who are marginalised by building powerful partnerships and creative solutions that bridge gaps in provision and aid recovery, reablement and resettlement. SIG is a not-for-profit organisation, providing thousands of people with good-quality support and care in a range of residential, drop-in centers, community floating support settings (including in peoples own homes), probation settings and people who are in hospital awaiting discharge. We currently do so across London, Brighton, Bedfordshire, Luton, and Kent. We believe in the power of well-planned, well-managed services to make a difference. We work with high standards and external and internal regulatory frameworks.

**Benefits, including Non-Contractual Perks**
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service
- Training and Development including access to courses, upskilling, and progression plans
- Medicash including discount gym memberships, routine optometry care, dental treatments, and physiotherapy treatments
- Employee Assistance Programme including counselling
- Reflect Practice regular sessions with a therapist provided by an external provider to support Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- **If you have the passion, creativity, and tenacity to make a real difference to people’s lives, challenge stigma and make our communities safer, we would love to hear from you**_

**ABOUT THE SERVICE**

Equinox Brent supports those recovering from mental health struggles, we provide 24 hour support at three sites as well as a 10 - 6 service. Residential services in Brent provide a recovery focused service to both, men and women with long term mental health difficulties. The service works with the user to increase their independence and move them on into lower support accommodation.

We work closely with various agencies to support improve life skills, increase social inclusion, and help with individuals improve their quality of life.

**ABOUT YOU**

If you are a team player, driven to provide high quality care and support to others, we want to hear from you We are looking for an effective communicator, who is able to build rapport with others from various backgrounds, respecting equality, diversity and inclusion. You will be compassionate, supportive, and empowering to others, whilst able to form effective, positive and motivational relationships.

**OVERVIEW OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Act as the primary recovery worker for a caseload of residents and participants (R&P), contributing to the development of support plans, risk assessments and reviews.
- Support in managing health and safety, maintenance, rent/charge collections, arrears and void control for the service.
- Tenancy Management, which can include signing up new residents/participants to tenancies with the correct procedure, assisting with taking occupancy, inductions, and general living support.
- Ensure our R&P’s understand their rights and responsibilities, to support them back into society and building networks. This can include assisting with making welfare benefit claims.
- Recognise signs of deteriorating mental health and initiate appropriate interventions to prevent a crisis.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external persons and agencies.
- Various administration duties, ensuring confidentiality.
- Maintain high standards of service provision in line with organisational values and requirements, ensuring a safe, effective, caring, and responsive service.
- Provide advice, information and guidance to residents and participants.

Other responsibilities than those described above may be required to be undertaken from time to time and will be expected to be performed to as long as it is within the capability and level of the position.

**KEY CRITERIA**

What we are looking for:

- Appropriate professional qualification: NVQ/Diploma Level 2 in Health & Social Care/Community Justice or professional equivalent
- Experience of working with people of complex backgrounds, ex-offenders, mental health, substance misuse, challenging behaviours
- Experience in supporting in a similar sector or reintegration of clients into the community

What we would like, but not essential:

- Experience managing a hub or community advice/guidanc