Safe Hands Recovery Worker
Location
Lichfield, Staffordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
We are your local Burton & District Mind, a local mental health charity affiliated to Mind: the leading mental health charity in England & Wales.
We have been supporting people within our community since 1991.
We will not give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect.
At Burton and District Mind our vision is for everyone in our community to experience better mental health. We work together as a team, supporting, encouraging and developing ourselves to provide a safe, productive environment enabling us to empower all those in mental distress or crisis.
With a Driving Licence and use of a car, our Safe Hands Recovery Worker will work as part of a small team to provide a public facing role in the delivery of an Out Of Hours Home-Sitting Mental Health Provision. Working in pairs, they will provide de-escalation approaches and an understanding approach to supporting service members made up of people with mental health problems experience mental distress, within their own homes or in non-clinical settings.
Working in communication with the NHS Crisis Pathways, they will provide an assessment of the level of need and provide mental health first aid and/or provision which distracts from mental health distress until the service member feels safe. They will also support Crisis Intervention workers and the police with the provision of a safe place for people in mental distress.
Number of Roles and Employer: Two roles employed by Burton and District Mind
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week.
To be worked between:
2pm-10pm Sunday to Saturday with 30 minutes unpaid break, fortnightly rota, flexibility required.
Bank Holiday working also expected.
Contract: Permanent – service contract two 2 years minimum.
£11.19 per hour, 2pm-8pm weekdays and Saturdays
£15.19 per hour, 6pm- 10pm weekdays and Saturdays
£19.72 per hour for Sundays and Bank Holidays
Responsible to: Contract Manager and Safe Hands Team Leader
Liaise with
Community Recovery Workers, volunteers. Line Manager, Mental Health Practitioners from MPFT, voluntary sector partners, police, health professionals, people with mental health problems and their carers, other local mental health providers, external charities and other agencies who support people with mental health problems and the general public with need.
Based in: St. Michaels Lichfield
Annual leave 28 days inclusive of Bank Holidays pro rata for part-time staff (TOIL will be expected)
Pension: Pension scheme available
Please send an up-to-date CV and cover letter to:
[email protected] Recruitment is conducted on a rolling basis with staged interviews.
Closing date for applications is 9:00am 13 February 2024. Burton and District Mind reserve the right to close applications before this date, should a high amount of applications be received.
Job Type: Part-time
Salary: £11.19-£19.72 per hour
Benefits:
•On-site parking
Schedule:
•8 hour shift
•Weekend availability
Application question(s):
•Do you have Level 2 in Mental Health Awareness or equivalent? Do you have Counselling Level 2 or willingness to undertake?
Experience:
•Mental Health: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
•Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
Job tags
Salary
£19.72 per hour
