Specialist Recovery Worker / Practitioner

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

Desirable

• Evidence of recent and ongoing academic study
• Level 2 Safeguarding Children or Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificate
• Mentorship or recognised teaching and assessing certificate
• Evidence of studies or learning about mental health, trauma or domestic and sexual abuse.

Essential

• Demonstrable experience working with individuals with mental health issues in a community, in-patient, or crisis and emergency setting
• To demonstrate a sound knowledge base in relation to factors that cause mental health problems for people and preferred treatment methods, or trauma informed therapeutic models.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of utilising a variety of assessment tools currently used in practice in relation to determine risk and assessing / planning care needs
• Practical experience of mentoring or supervising junior staff, students, other trainees or new staff
• Previous employment in NHS Mental Health Services or experience of liaising with NHS and other statutory/nonstatutory services

Desirable

• Demonstrate a clear understanding of current Mental Health legislation and its application / use in practice or legislation relevant to substance misuse services.
• An awareness of current research and evidence-based practice within the setting
• To demonstrate an understanding of the interventions needs to meet the physical health needs of people with mental health or substance addictions problems.
• To have experience of or if appropriate to service needs be willing to undertake training in de-escalation or breakaway techniques.
• To demonstrate an understanding of the societal factors that impact on the health and wellbeing of people, including discrimination and how this contributes to mental health problems.

Essential

• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skill
• Able to work on own initiative
• Able to work as part of a team and demonstrate the importance of a team approach
• Demonstrate well developed interpersonal skills
• Ability to maintain boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
• Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches etc.

Desirable

• Sound awareness of patient / service user services within the wider context of the organisation
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the roles within the multi-professional team

Essential

• Motivated and enthusiastic about working/creating a newly formed trauma informed service
• Willingness to work at other crisis prevention house sites in order to ensure safe staffing levels