Life Skills Recovery Worker - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

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City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health is a mental health hospital based at Homerton Hospital that provides assessment and treatment for male and female individuals experiencing acute mental health difficulties who are aged under 65.

The service sets out to provide effective mental health care to help service users recover from a mental health crisis, and support their rehabilitation to get back on track with their lives.


We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative persons to take up the post of Life Skills Recovery Worker Band 4 to join our teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity to actively form therapeutic, meaningful relationships with patients using a range of interventions/activities to enhance their care and improve their inpatient experience.

This post will require you to work a mixture of shift work (9to5, long days and night shifts).


Please state "three reasons to shortlist me" in the first paragraph of the supporting statement in order to be considered for shortlisting.

This post will require you to work a mixture of shift work (long days and night shifts).

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Supporting the in-patients wards during psychiatric emergencies.

Promoting a safe environment of care that safeguards and protects patients and staff against undue risk.
Facilitating a positive role for patients where open communication and opportunities for learning and decision-making are promoted.

Maintaining the patients right to spend no more time than clinically necessary in a locked environment.

Provide support and clinical assistance to the other hospitals within the trust.
Provide support and liaise with the community mental health teams and other allied professionals.


As a support worker, you will assist in the provision of outstanding recovery focused care as part of the nursing team and wider multi-disciplinary team.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve


Our values are:

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile

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