Recovery Worker

_**Please note, due to the nature of the service, it is an occupational requirement that the post holder is female and the post is therefore exempt from the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 in terms of Schedule 9, Part 1, and Paragraph 1 of the Act.**_

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

You will contribute to supporting our residents and participants to achieve their personal goals and achieving positive outcomes by offering a flexible, recovery focused accommodation service for women experiencing multiple and complex needs. You will support our residents and participants to establish weekly routines, develop their life skills, and become more self-reliant, so they can move on to independent living in the community. You will provide pathways, support, and appropriate interventions that will enable successful resettlements, and deliver to achieve more safer, integrated communities for our stakeholders.

**Rota**: Monday to Friday shifts can include: 08:00 - 16:00, 10:00 - 18:00, and 14:30 - 10:00.

**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
- Annual Staff Awards
- **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**

Brighton Women's Service is a women's only residential project providing support to 18 women. The service has a Trauma Informed approach using a Psychologically Informed Environment Model. Our service focuses on providing a high quality, person centered support to all our residents.

**ABOUT YOU**

We’re looking for someone with a genuine passion and felt purpose to help people, challenge stigma, and make a real difference to people’s lives, ideally with experience of working with adults who are vulnerable and have multiple and complex needs.
We are looking for a team player, driven to provide high quality care and support to others, an effective communicator who is able to build rapport with others from various backgrounds. You will be compassionate, supportive, and empowering to others, whilst able to form effective, positive and motivational relationships.

PERSONAL QUALITIES AND BEHAVIOURS
- Responsible for having an appropriate balance between being responsive to the needs of people and managing the organisations objectives.
- Calm and pragmatic approach, you will be dealing with conflicting interests of needs, resources, and/or time so you will need the ability to remain calm and retain a sense of priorities under pressure.
- Problem solving and forward thinking

**OVERVIEW OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Deliver a person centered, recovery focused approach to support a caseload of residents and participants with relevant interventions to support with independent living.
- Contribute to the development of support plans, risk assessments and reviews.
- Encourage residents to develop social networks and undertake meaningful activities to assist them to develop positive coping mechanisms.
- Explore resettlement options for residents and support them with this move through to independent living.
- Ensure consistent communication throughout the teams.
- Ensure our residents understand their rights and responsibilities, with access to the right tools and resources to support them back into society and build networks.
- Develop strong internal and external relationships.
- Provide advice, guidance, and support, including life skills training.
- Recognise signs of deteriorating mental health and initiate appropriate interventions to prevent a crisis.
- Admin duties will vary, inc