Waking Night Recovery Worker

£24,150 per annum

Additional to the salary, waking nights will receive a £10 supplement per shift.

Morecambe, Lancashire

You’re caring, flexible and creative, thrive under pressure, know how to connect with people at all levels and really enjoy helping others to live as independently as possible. You’d also like to be part of an organisation that counts on the professionalism, insight, expertise and passion of its staff to inspire individual recovery for the people they work with. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship’s as a Waking Night Recovery Worker .

A national mental health charity providing a range of services across England including supported housing, crisis houses and residential homes as well as community-based services, employment support and social enterprises wants you to provide mental health crisis intervention and support to people using our services who are experiencing a psychiatric and or psychosocial crisis.

This is an exciting new opportunity to join a new service opening up on Morecambe in March 2024. As a Waking Night Recovery Worker, you will work throughout the night to support those on placement.

Our aim is to support the people using our services to achieve their own goals. To ensure the safe and successful daily running of the service and ensure that you, and your team, work towards agreed service/contract targets.

The people we support are central to everything we do. Each person who uses our services is a unique individual and they all deserve to be treated as such. As such, the responsibilities may vary from day to day.

As a Waking Night Recovery Worker you will liaise with clinical teams to discuss referrals and clinical presentation of people using services and make referral decisions based on this. Support individuals who present in a range of ways, including low mood, depression, anxiety, mania, voice hearing, delusions, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts to develop their own coping strategies to deal with crisis situations. Participate in a group work programme to assist people using services to deal with substance abuse, mental or physical illness, poverty, unemployment, or physical abuse.

What is important is that you have a caring and compassionate nature and empathy and enthusiasm for helping others. Whatever your background, you’ll need to be happy to work both independently and within a team and willing to be part of a weekly rota system and available for on call duties.

In return for your skills and enthusiasm, this role comes with some really great benefits and excellent training and development opportunities.

This is a permanent full-time role requiring the post holder to work 37.5 hours per week.