Recovery Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Recovery Support Worker to join our Brighton Women's services, which provides supported accommodation and recovery approach programmes for adult women with multiple and complex needs.

As a Recovery Support Worker, your role is to support service users to achieve their personal goals and positive outcomes, by offering a person centred recovery-based service, enabling them to develop their skills and resilience and supporting them to maximise their independence. You will be expected to engage positively with services users, so that they can identify their own needs and benefit from appropriate support and treatment services, and move on to independent living and lead more happier, fulfilled lives.

If you are passionate about improving the lives of people we support, then this could be the perfect role for you.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Provide key work and support planning for Service Users, with relevant interventions such as life skills support, to help successful recovery in line with Service Users’ personal goals.
- Encourage Service Users to develop social networks and undertake meaningful activities to assist them to develop positive coping mechanisms and reintegrate into the wider community.
- Explore resettlement options for Service Users and assist them to move on successfully to appropriate housing options..
- Liaise with relevant and appropriate agencies and services to provide information, advice, support and treatment where necessary in relation to physical and mental health, substance misuse, education, employment and training, life skills and any other identified support needs.
- Encourage and support Service Users to participate in the running and development of the service and activities/interventions that support self-management and independent living.

**Experience Required**:

- Proven experience delivering person centred and recovery focused services to service users with mental health support needs, including complex needs or equivalent
- Direct experience of working in reintegration and rehabilitation services or similar services with a recovery focus.
- Ability to build effective working relationships across multiple teams both inside and outside the organisation.
- Experience of developing and interpreting recovery plans and risk assessments.
- Awareness and understanding of the issues faced by women with multiple and complex needs within a supported living setting.
- Experience of working with other agencies and support services to achieve the best outcomes for service users.
- Good reporting and I.T. skills.

**Benefits of working with us**:

- Excellent core and on-going training aligned with personal development plan
- Access to employee assistance programme
- 25 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 2 years and increasing 1 day per year up to 30 days annual leave
- Medi-cash which includes the following:

- Discount gym membership
- Routine eye tests, glasses and contact lenses
- Dental treatment via NHS or Private
- Physiotherapy, Head Massage and a range of other therapies
- Life Assurance

If you wish to work with this challenging yet rewarding client group then this could be a perfect opportunity for you
- All successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check and provide employment references covering the last 5 years period including one from your most recent employer._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £21,408.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- working with individuals with mental health needs: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)