Support Time Recovery Worker - Forensic Psychiatry

The post-holder will work with service users and the multi disciplinary team in an enthusiastic and conscientious way to ensure the delivery of high quality recovery focused care and support.

The role will require a real desire and ability to engage with service users in a confident, compassionate and non-judgemental manner, with a primary focus of enabling recovery, well-being and independence.

The service works with adults with diagnoses of mental health conditions and/or learning disability who present with a risk of significant harm to others, to achieve optimal management of risk and minimize re-offending. The service adopts a compassionate and trauma informed approach to promote relapse prevention and recovery, so enabling individuals to realise their full potential and support them to continue to live and build meaningful lives in the community.

You will be joining an experienced team of professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, support workers, administrators) who all share a passion and drive for delivering high quality care and treatment to service users with Forensic histories.

The service runs 7 days a week (8am till 8pm), excluding bank holidays, and will include shift work on a rotational basis.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

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