Support Worker

**Support Worker**

**(Internal job title: Mental health Recovery worker)**

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Mental health Recovery worker** to play a vital role in providing support at **Portland Road**

**Position**: Mental Health Recovery Worker

**Location**: Portland Road
- Hove

**Salary**: £25,531 (Includes £1,329 Antisocial hours enhancement and £9.39 hourly sleep-in night rate)

**Hours**: 38 Hours (average) per week over a 2-week rolling rota, including fortnightly weekends

**Contract**:Permanent

**Closing Date**: 29/09/25

**Interview Date**:07/10/25 TBC

**About**:
As a **Mental health recovery worker**, you will be working for a people-led organisation whose mission and values is to inspire change across Sussex.

The role of Mental health recovery worker is akin to a support worker role.

Staff provide invaluable, person-centred holistic support and develop professional relationships with clients based on trust, which will enable effective and empathic emotional support.

Mental health recovery workers provide practical support in a range of areas with an emphasis on clients developing life skills and confidence to live independently. They will ensure the day-to-day running of the service is carried out efficiently and effectively. This will involve dispensing medication, supporting clients to develop and build on their existing daily living skills, towards more independence.

The position is based on a two-week rolling rota, including 2 x sleep in shifts and 5 x day/afternoon shifts.

This role includes working weekends and bank holidays. Your normal Hours of work per week on average is 38 hours. The total Pro Rata salary is £19,319 which is based on a full-time salary of £25,529 per annum, this includes £4,883 of 10 hours per week paid at the sleep-in rate of £9.39 per hour and the £1,329 Antisocial hours enhancement.

**About the project**

The Archway Project is a 24-hour residential service comprising of three residential properties in Hove. This role is for the Portland road project.

**Portland Road**is a 9-bed service providing placements for people requiring 24-hr residential care and support with the aim of helping clients move on to less supported accommodation.

Archway is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and have a rating of **‘Outstanding’**

**Step Down (Sackville Gardens)**is a 5-bed service providing short-term (up to 16 weeks), intensive support for people who are medically fit to leave hospital and need support to develop their independence to move into longer-term accommodation.

**Sackville Gardens**is a 5-bed service providing placements up to 2-years for people requiring 24-hour residential care and support with the aim of helping clients move on to less supported accommodation. This is a new addition to the Archway service.

All properties are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and have a rating of **‘Outstanding’**

**A quote from an Archway client**:

- “Archway has changed my life for the better. Being at Archway has made me more confident, aware of my own circumstances and helped me move away from a bad time” _

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To support clients using a trauma-informed and recovery-focused approach to learn about their mental health and identify actions that improve and maintain positive wellbeing.
- To support clients in developing life skills including self-care, cleaning, shopping and cooking.
- To work alongside key-clients to develop a person-centred support plan that identifies individual, recovery-focused goals, which draws on personal strengths and resources and access to the support available.
- To assist in the efficient domestic running of the project
- To participate in a work rota which can include daytime and night-time sleeping hours, as well as weekends and bank holidays.
- To help develop and continually improve service delivery using a psychologically informed framework.
- To develop positive supportive relationships with clients and carry out keyworking responsibilities for a small caseload.

**Person Specification**:
To be successful in the role of **Mental health recovery Worker** you will need to have great communication skills and be committed to the values of BHT Sussex. Some of the key skills and experience you will need to bring with you include:

- Experience providing emotional and practical support for vulnerable adults who have complex mental health needs
- Experience supporting a caseload of clients
- Ability to provide creative, structured, person centred and co-produced support planning and risk management plans
- An understanding of housing management and health & safety within a residential setting
- A commitment to empowering clients and promoting their choice and independence

**In return**:
In recognition of our commitment to staff, BHT Sussex has been awarded Gold Accreditation from Investors in People. We are also signed up to the Disability Confident employer scheme and have ma