Support Time Recovery Worker

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and we can offer you:

- Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
- Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- “In our Gift” providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
- The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
- Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
- Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
- Child Care Vouchers Scheme
- Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
- NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

1 vacancy in East Staffordshire (based at either Lichfield or Burton your choice)

1 vacancy in West Staffordshire (based at either Stafford or Cannock your choice)

The Early Intervention Team (EIT) in South Staffordshire are pleased to advertise this opportunity to recruit a Band 3 Support Time and Recovery Worker. The EIT team works with people across the county of South Staffordshire aged 14-65 who experience their first episode of psychosis (FEP). The team is fully multi-disciplinary, including consultant psychiatrist and associate specialist in psychiatry, psychologists, social workers, advanced nurse practitioner, nurse prescribers, community mental health nurses, occupational therapists, support workers, youth worker, and a specialist employment support practitioner.

The team provides input to people across South Staffordshire, working out of bases in Cannock, Stafford, Lichfield, and Burton, as well as people’s homes, GP surgeries, other public settings, and occasionally inpatient settings. Some of the work may be conducted at a distance using online video or telephone.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Check out the videos below showcasing why you should grow your career here with us at MPFT:
Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube

Development and Progression within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube

What is it like to be a Healthcare Support Worker within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube

As a Support Time and Recovery Worker your role is to assist in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for individuals and carrying out all forms of agreed care under agreed levels of supervision. The role requires you to communicate and work collaboratively with your Early Intervention colleagues across both First Episode Psychosis (FEP) branch and the At Risk Mental State (ARMS) branch to meet the needs of your patients. You will support the delivery of timely access to high quality patient centred services in secondary care that enable people with or at risk of developing FEP, physical health needs and/or social care problems to improve their well-being and functionality.

**What you will be doing**:

- As an integral part of a multi-professional team within Early Intervention you will be working with individuals with psychosis or at risk of developing psychosis that need various interactions to maintain and or improve quality of life.
- Engaging the identified individuals and to provide support and interventions to meet their health and social needs either through individual or group work.
- Work with the Mental Health Practitioner in Early Intervention to provide tailored individual care and support plans promoting recovery.
- Provide information, advice, guidance, signposting and support to facilitate access to a range of community based support services.
- Alongside colleagues develop and maintain close working relationships with statutory and non-statutory agencies providing crisis support such as housing.

**What you will get**:

- An annual salary of up to £23,177 (37.5 hours per week) depending on experience
- 35 - 41 days annual leave - including bank holidays (depending on length of service)
- Ongoing career development and training
- NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most comprehensive and generous schemes in the UK
- Wellbeing support, such as access to the MPFT Staff Psychology Service, and additional wellbeing days, along with activities throughout the year
- Annual recognition event recognising our employees who live and breathe our value