Recovery Worker - Crisis Team

Recovery Worker - Crisis Team

locations

Oak House

Willow House

time type

Full time

posted on

Posted Yesterday

job requisition id

JR013230

Crisis Recovery Worker – Lancashire Oak House

Location: Oak House, 383 Padiham road, Burnley, BB12 6SZ (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: £25, 8777.80 - £30,868.31 per annum

About Waythrough 

Make a real difference in your community 

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, 7 days a week. Day staff work in a shift pattern of earlies (8 am - 4pm), days (09:30am - 5:30pm) and lates (1:30 - 9:30pm). Waking night staff cover a ten hour period.

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 your own caseload of 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: cleaning, risk management, recording and reporting.

• Support the team with daily planning

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

• 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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• £500

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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 

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

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