Crisis Recovery Worker - Waking nights

• locations
• Oak House
• Willow House

• time type
• Full time

• posted on
• Posted Today

• job requisition id
• JR011173

Crisis Recovery Worker – Lancashire Oak House

Location: Oak House, 383 Padiham road, Burnley, BB12 0HU

(Work from Willow house also required if staff shortage).

Working Hours: 37 hours per week (shifts will equate to 37 hours per week over the year)Contract Type: PermanentSalary: £24,243 - £28,930 per annum

Please note: The salary listed reflects the full earning potential for this role. Starting salaries depend on experience and progression within the band. 

About Waythrough 

Waythrough was formed in 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Together, we’ve created one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.

Every year, we support around 125,000 people through nearly 200 services – and it’s all made possible by our 3,500 brilliant staff and volunteers.

Make a real difference in your community 

Are you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier, more independent lives? Join our team at Waythrough and support people facing challenges around mental health, substance use, housing or domestic abuse. This is more than just a job – it’s a chance to build meaningful relationships and create lasting change.

About the service:

Oak house is a mental health crisis recovery house. We offer support for those in crisis from a range of 3-7 days. We are a five bedroom facility, with 24 hour staffing. Waking night staff shifts are a mix of 9:00pm - 07:00am and 10:30pm - 08:30am.

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.

About the role:

Assist people using our services to:

• Manage and improve their own physical and mental well-being
• Develop life-skills and coping tools to better manage their own mental health, through group and 1:1 interventions.
• Live more fulfilling lives and develop new meanings and purposes
• Take control over their life, through their own choices and decisions

Ensure the safe running of the service:

• Assess resident wellbeing and welfare on an ongoing basis
• Keep our service compliant with legal regulations
• Provide a safe, respectful environment

Keywork:

• Oversee the wellbeing of those in service and complete appropriate sessions.
• Concentrate on the person and their individual needs, choices and aspirations, rather than on diagnostic categories or labels
• Work with individuals to develop agreed, meaningful and achievable person centred plans with positive outcomes that meet the individual’s aspirations
• Complete a range of activities during and around sessions
• Ensure positive risk assessments are created and implemented in line with our policies and procedures
• Signpost people we support to other services for additional support
• Maintain the health and safety of the building
• Support the team with the daily planning and running of our service.

Manage your own workload:

• Plan and carry out your core areas of responsibility
• Complete accurate and timely computerised records via our database
• Liaise with external agencies - such as community mental health teams, multi-disciplinary teams and carers - building relationships and projecting a positive image of the service
• Effectively monitoring and managing your own wellbeing through debriefing and discussions with your manager and colleagues
• Keep up to date with organisational developments

To Succeed in This Role, You’ll Need:

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels

• Ability to respond compassionately to sensitive and complex issues

• Able to motivate, support and advocate for people using services

• Able to work effectively unsupervised and as part of a team

• Able to keep good and accurate records

• Ability to plan and prioritise workload

• Good interpersonal and listening skills

• Able to keep good and accurate records

• Ability to plan and prioritise workload

• Able to demonstrate a commitment to self-development & training

• Able to demonstrate personal & professional integrity

• Ability to work under pressure

• Good IT skills, including in Word, the use of databases and email

• Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the Service and people using services

• Able to participate in a 24 hour/7 day week shift rota, undertake on call duties and stay away from home at night

To view the full job and person specification, please click here.

What We Offer

We value the people who make a difference every day. Alongside meaningful work, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:

• 27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays)

• Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%

• Life assurance (3× annual salary)

• Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay

• Birthday leave and the option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave

• Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualifications

• 24/7 online GP access and Employee Assistance Programme

• Recognition and long service awards via our

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• Cycle to Work scheme and Credit Union membership

• Discounts via Blue Light Card, Charity Discounts, Extras and Tickets for Good

• Free will writing service and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year

Inclusion and accessibility 

Waythrough is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities, especially those with lived experience of the issues we support.

We have signed up to the Disability Confident Scheme - all applicants are welcome, and adjustments can be made to enable fair participation.

If you need adjustments or support to apply, please email our recruitment team: recruitmentteam@waythrough.org.uk 

Closing Date:

About Us

Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship.

Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.

We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.

Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That’s why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Richmond Fellowship’ or ‘Aquarius’ (our subsidiary charity in the Midlands). Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.

Thanks for bearing with us – and don’t forget to check out the Waythrough jobs on the Humankind job site https://peoplekind.my.salesforce-sites.com/recruit/

Aquarius

Aquarius is a subsidiary of Waythrough. Aquarius is a Midlands-based charity supporting individuals to overcome the harms caused by drugs, alcohol and gambling. Aquarius has always held the view that people we support could resolve their problems with support and guidance and that people have the ability to find their own solutions to their problems. Our roles across the organisation include Practitioners and Administrators as well as Team Managers.

Find out more at www.aquarius.org.uk