Life Skills Recovery Worker

6 days ago


London, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Life Skills recovery worker (Band 4) to join our expanding service.

The postholder will focus on forming therapeutic, meaningful relationships with patients, they will use a range of interventions/activities to enhance their care and improve their inpatient experience. This will include assuming a lead role in specified areas, e.g. bi-lingual support, vocational and employment advice to service users, activities coordination, assisting in individual and therapeutic group work.

You will be responsible for supporting in the management of a caseload of service users discharged from the forensic inpatient services into the community. You will act as a contact for the allocated patients and work collaboratively with relevant agencies, services, families and carers.

You will play an active INREACH role with the forensic inpatient services to identify and intensively engage service users during their pre-discharge period to facilitate a seamless transition back into the community.

You will be actively involved in the care pathway management out of and occasionally into the inpatient services. You will closely work with other team members to support service users in the community to prevent readmission

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.

This job description is intended as a guide to the main duties of the post and is not intended to be a prescriptive document. Duties and base of work may change to meet the needs of the service or because of the introduction of new technology. This job description may be reviewed from time to time and changed, after consultation with the postholder.



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